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Boh Runga and her band will join The Electric Confectionaires, Batucada Sound Machine, Tahuna Breaks and the Andrew White Band in a full day music festival at the Coromandel Area School, Coromandel Town, on Sunday, January 3rd 2010 the day after the famous Keltic Fair and on the same grounds.
The new festival is presented by the Coromandel Education Advancement Charitable Trust, CEDACT and operates in cooperation with the Keltic Fair the day before. All proceeds past expenses will benefit education in Coromandel and the Coromandel Area School in particular. The event is running from 11am in the morning and will close at 7pm. Food and trade stalls are on site to cater to the patrons, as well as a beer tent. "The event is designed as a great summer family day out to celebrate the New Year", says Thomas Everth, Chairman of CEDACT. "The programme presents some of New Zealand's best current artists and bands with UK singer/songwriter Andrew White also performing with his band".
Tickets are $45 for adults and $20 for 10 to 16 year olds, while under 10's are free of charge. Tickets are sold through iTicket. Call 0508 iTicket or 0508 484253.
"We expect tickets to sell fast due to the popular line-up and mid-summer date and as ticket numbers are limited, better be quick than to miss out" says Thomas Everth. "The Keltic Fair the day before consistently draws up to 15,000 visitors to Coromandel Town, so we expect a sellout crowd for the music festival the next day." Both, Keltic Fair and the Music Festival share common infrastructure and are organized by the same group of people.
Boh Runga will perform music from her just released solo debut album "Right Here" and some of her best known songs. Boh has recorded a string of hits over three albums with her band Stellar*, including their most recent number one, 'For A While' and classics like 'Violent', 'Taken', 'Undone', 'Part of Me' and 'Whiplash'.
Among the acts at the festival is the 13 piece Batucada Sound Machine, a bunch of 13 mad musicians which boasts members from Chile, Brazil, the UK... and Mangere Bridge and as the numbers suggest, the sound they create is truly massive, with Brazilian influences. Batucada and Andrew White have previously also performed to an excited audience at WOMAD among many other national and international festivals.
Eagerly awaited will also be the performance of the Electric Confectionaires, perhaps the best new band to watch as Time Out put it. Just barely out of high school, the Confectionaries opened at the Auckland Big Day Out and performed at some of the most prestigious festivals in New Zealand and have become a sensation especially for the young generation.
Andrew White and his band will bring his story telling style of great original songs to the festival. Andrew, who began his career busking in Christchurch, has seen more than a million records sold comprising of his compositions.
Rounding up the bill are the Tahuna Breaks, an uplifting reggae / funk / soul band based in Auckland with a strong local fan base. With influences varying from the likes of Marvin Gaye, Red Hot Chilli Peppers, James Brown, UB40 and New Zealand's very own dub and reggae movement, Tahuna Breaks are a rootsy blend of funk and reggae with that distinctive New Zealand summery sound.
Stunning high act acrobatics by the Twisty Twins will also be on display. The Twisty Twins, raised in Coromandel, have become an international circus sensation after completing their studies at the Christchurch Circus School.