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Wednesday, 5 May 2021, 11:13 am After postponing the original dates in early March due to the covid restrictions at summer's-end, GRRRL FEST Kirikiriroa (GF) is ramping up again for the first ever round of female-led festivities.   Founded on four creative cornerstones - visual art, music, performing art and makers market - Never Project Space hosted the GF art exhibition called ‘Work’ back in March and the remaining events have been compressed into a ‘mini’ version of the festival. After a small break and a reshuffle of events, festival director Gwyn Barrie says that although it’...

By: Christie Eliezer In Death, Michael Gudinski’s Shadow Continues To Be Taller Than His Soul Ed Sheeran with Michael GudinskiWhile Mushroom Group founder Michael Gudinski’s state memorial will be held evening of March 24 at the 14,820-seat Rod Laver Arena in Melbourne (he is buried at a private ceremony this week), the first weekend after his March 2 death saw his huge shadow loom large over his hometown of Melbourne. Melbourne marked its first major return to live entertainment with the street Moomba Festival March 5 to 8. On a smaller scale t...

Crowded House was scheduled to play at the Claudelands Events Centre on Thursday night. From sports events to rock concerts to street art festivals, a multitude of Waikato events that should have been held over the coming week have been delayed or cancelled thanks to the latest Covid lockdown. But for a few, the show could – or must – go on. Crowded House’s nationwide To The Island tour was meant to get under way at the Claudelands Events Centre on Thursday night, but both that date and two shows at the Church Road Winery in Napier on the weekend have been postponed until later in Ma...

The lineup for the Chick Fest show – not to be confused with the Grrrl Fest event in the city the following weekend – includes Kyla Greening, Empress, Phreaze, Date Month Year, and JP & the Drag Kings. The concerts are just two events in a packed final weekend of events for the festival. Another staple of the annual line-up is Grooves in the Gardens, which runs from 10am to 3pm on Sunday in Harkness Henry’s Emporium of Scintillating Wonders. It includes a large vintage market that traditionally draws thousands searching for collectibles and a bit of nostalgic revelry on what will be ...

A group of the biggest names in New Zealand music, including Lorde, Bic Runga, Anika Moa, Anna Coddington and Tami Neilson, subsequently released an open letter urging industry leaders and workers to examine their own behaviour. When her friend Gwyn Barrie came up with the idea for Grrrl Fest – a music and arts festival with a kaupapa of inclusion for women and gender non-binary artists – Waswo said she jumped at the opportunity to be involved. The festival was conceived as a response to a lack of female and gender non-binary representation in Hamilton’s music scene, and has grown to...