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New Zealand's summer music festival season is in jeopardy as event organisers wait for information about vaccination certificates and MIQ spots.

A Covid-19 vaccine certificate system announced on Tuesday will come too late for many large events planned over the next six weeks.

Karine Te Kanawa (centre) came down from Mount Maunganui to be at this year’s event The festival has previously been overshadowed by incidents of drugs. In 2018, 13 people were hospitalised after taking ‘brown sugar’ at the event. This year, police and organisers were proactive to curb drug use, with security staff carrying out pocket and bag searchers as people arrived at the main gate. JOHN KIRK-ANDERSON/Stuff Drugs taken from attendees included, ‘bath salts’, synthetic cannabis, meth, MDMA and LSD. Substances found included synthetic cathinones – known as bath salts – whic...

Christchurch's Electric Avenue festival, which is expecting a sellout crowd of about 25,000 people, can go ahead as planned after a drop back to alert level 1.

Napier Art Deco Festival The Art Deco Festival in Napier has cancelled its opening day events due to alert level 2 restrictions. Christopher Tegg Cameraman Christopher Tegg caught some of the action at the 2020 Art Deco Festival. The festival was set to run from Wednesday through to Sunday, but organisers wrote on the festival website that events scheduled for Wednesday would not go ahead. These included Art Deco vintage car tours, walking tours, the opening ceremony, a 1930s waiata and poi dance competition, and a big band concert. “Based on Cabinet’s updates today and tomorrow, we ...