With Bay Dreams, One Love and more, Tauranga is getting a name as a festival city; but there's something unique about the Jazz Festival. It may be that it... Read More

After a two-year build-up it's here; jazz is in the air, everywhere you look around. Fingers crossed about the weather, and I hope everyone has fun. This week... Read More

Okay. Last column before the Jazz Festival arrives. It's quite exciting... There is a veritable deluge of music about to flood the town, with more details being... Read More

Normally I write about new music, but a bunch of old music has unexpectedly appeared this week... Before that though, a quick reminder that the National Jazz... Read More

I have all sorts of titbits for you this week: reviews, gigs, gossip... yep it's more action-packed than an Oprah interview. First up, let's revisit the... Read More

Once again I find myself writing to you from limbo, from a level that may be different by the time you read this... Which means that whatever plans I had to write... Read More

Last week Grant Haua launched Awa Blues, already probably the most significant Tauranga release of the year. It was sent out into the world via a small and quickly... Read More

Writing about promotional (ad)ventures from Your Enabler Presents makes me think of a David Lynch movie. Blue Velvet, to be exact. He was once called Tauranga... Read More

There are all sorts of musical stories in Tauranga; Shirley Ryder's must be amongst the more unusual. Not long ago Shirley, a singer/songwriter who had released... Read More

Who's the most popular band in the Bay this summer? It's a close run thing. What with Tauranga now being celebrated as Festival Central for New Zealand... Read More

There seems to be an increase of dissatisfaction in Tauranga these days; people are cross and getting crosser. Perhaps it's because this is an ever-expanding... Read More

Fifty years is a long time to do anything - if you want to spend that length of time on something you need to start young. Luckily, Shona Laing did. Now a new... Read More