Polytropos
New Zealanders Oscar West and Rennie Pearson are celebrating ten years of playing and touring together as the traditional music duo Polytropos. They have just released their first full-length album.…
William Shakespeare’s: The Comedy of Errors
This summer we bring you Shakespeare’s most farcical play. Slapstick and mistaken identity, shipwrecks and puns, bungling servants and Dukes. All delivered in Shakespeare’s delicious verse. A crazy tale of…
Richter City Rebels
Aotearoa's first and finest New Orleans-style brass band. Made up of top calibre Wellington musicians, the Rebels bring the warm, infectious sound and magnetic culture of New Orleans back to…
PIPES in The Park aka the Meadow!!
Pipes in the Park is back this summer at Fairfield House Meadow! Join the City of Nelson Highland Pipe Band for some Celtic music and dance in the sunshine. This…
Klezmer Rebs
Klezmer Rebs are an 8 piece Wellington band formed in 2002 that plays (mostly) klezmer music, an engaging style of world/folk music born out of the Yiddish/Jewish culture of eastern…
Alpaca Social Club
The Alpaca Social Club is the bringing together of 2 kindred musical souls. Both musical adventurers and travelers, on different instruments and across a multitude of styles, Jon Sanders and…
Wild Fire – Sika & Koffie
Feel the heartbeat of the earth. An uplifting night of Didgeridoo & West African Drums. It's also Valentine's Day, so a perfect opportunity to gather together and feel the love!…
Ras Judah & Culture Embassy
Ras Judah and Culture Embassy band is a Wellington-based, 10-piece international multicultural outfit, hence the name “Culture Embassy”. The band’s musical style is an infusion Afro jazz and roots reggae.…
Madame Tragédie & Accomplices; The Lady Sings the Blues
Isabella (Izzy) Miller Bell Aka Ma Bell & Madame Tragédie is a multi-faceted performance artist with a passion for music and the stage, heralded by (NZMM July 2003) to be…
Farewell Summer, Greetings Autumn Meadow Dance.
This evening is for people who just want to dance... On this evening Summer gives way to Autumn making it a perfect moment to serenade Summer on an alive conscious dance floor and in a breath-taking setting. Gather your friends and get yourself along. $20 concession / $25 full Tickets at at the door, pay…
Astronomical Interests of Fairfield’s Atkinson Family.
Nelson Science Society and Fairfield House have the pleasure of hosting an informative evening as part of Nelson's Tuku 21 Whakatū Heritage Month. Duncan Steel will talk about two remarkable members of the Atkinson family and their astronomical interests. Arthur Atkinson who built Fairfield House, observed the Transit of Venus in 1882 on a 4"…
French for Rabbits & Terrible Sons
Wellington’s ethereal dream-pop gems French for Rabbits are pairing up with Terrible Sons for a weekend away in the South Island. They will present their dreamy, perfectly-paired music to lucky audiences in Nelson, Blenheim and Onekaka, before French for Rabbits head off to perform at Wanaka’s Festival of Colour. _______________ French for Rabbits released a…