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Performing on the New Zealand Folk Circuit

Agents and Tour Guides

Mike Moroney’s rough guide to touring in New Zealand is available at http://www.kiwifolk.com/tourist.html.

Lamppost, operated by Louise Evans, is a booking agent, and also makes the most of overseas musicians visiting New Zealand, facilitating workshops and promoting contact with interested people.

The Christchurch Folk Music Club has produced maps of folk-friendly venues in the North and South Islands.

Venues

Apart from folk clubs, the following contacts will sometimes arrange paid concerts for folk performers. (A map of New Zealand is available at http://www.govt.nz/static/map.php.)

Mangaweka
Mangaweka Adventure Company
We are a small venue sitting on the banks of the Rangitikei River, a spectacular outdoor location gathering guests from the Rangitikei and Manawatu. We run an afternoon of live music every Sunday throughout the summer and are always looking for visiting musicians of all varieties of music to entertain.
Email address info(at)mangaweka.co.nz

Wellington
McGuinness Classics Inc
Gracelands
101 Gracefield Rd
Lower Hutt
Phone (04)586-1500
Fax (04)586-1501
Email address mcguinness-classics-inc(at)@xtra.co.nz
Web Site http://www.mcguinnessclassics.co.nz
Roy McGuinness hosts concerts of folk and roots music from time to time in his indoor showroom for classic cars.

Dave Barnes: Tawa
david.barnes(at)xtra.co.nz

Takaka
The Mussel Inn

Marlborough Sounds
Bruce Fergus (whirlwood(at)clear.net.nz)

Christchurch
Nut Point Gallery
703 Old West Coast Rd
RD 1 West Melton
Christchurch 7671
Email: nutpointgallery(at)hotmail.com
Web Site: http://www.nutpointgallery.com/

Lyttleton
Harbour Light - Licensed Entertainment & Function Venue, 24 London Street, Lyttelton 8012, Canterbury, NZ. (helen(at)harbourlight.co.nz)

Geraldine
Easy Way Cafe (easyway(at)xtra.co.nz)

Oamaru
The Penguin Club

Wanaka/Cardrona
Martin Curtis (curtismr(at)xtra.co.nz)

Hawea
Claire Easterbrook (homestay(at)@mtaspiring.school.nz)

Sympathetic Sound Systems

Not all operators of sound systems are sympathetic to folk music. The following are "folk friendly".

Select Sound
Where: Canterbury
Website: http://www.selectsound.co.nz/

Festival Calendar

December/January
Whare Flat (new year)
Tui Farm (new year)
Laftah Festival (new year)
Auckland (last weekend)

February
Waihi Bush (Mid-Canterbury) (first weekend)

March/April
Canterbury (Easter)
Naseby (Bard, Ballads & Bulldust) (Easter)
Hamilton (Easter)
Kokukoku (Hokianga)

June
Waharau Winter Shakeup (near Auckland) (Queens Birthday weekend)
Whitestone (Herbert, north Otago) (Queens Birthday weekend)
Nelson Celtic school

August
Waharau (near Auckland) (first weekend)

October
Cardrona (third weekend)
Dunedin Celtic Festival (second weekend)
Wellington (third weekend)

November
Celtanz, Waitakere

See FESTIVALS for details.