Neil Finn and sons Elroy and Liam have been broadcasting from home, daily at 4pm, during the lockdown. This link takes you to Neil’s page for fangradio and the previous recorded audio postings. Buddy, Neil’s 3 year old grandson on the trumpet, joins in on Saturday 18th. There are also some video recordings too. Enjoy! […]

The Rapaura WaterGardens, Coromandel Rapaura Watergardens is a 64 acre private estate nestled in the midst of the Coromandel Peninsula National Forest Park. Awarded ‘Garden of Distinction’ by the Canterbury Horticultural Society and ‘Garden of Significance’ by the New Zealand Garden Trust. Rapaura offers abundant native bush, ferns, birdlife, watergardens, meandering walks over bridges, streams, […]

A free-to-view recording of the modern ballet of Frank Kafka’s ‘Metamorphosis’ is available now on the link below. The ballet was shown as part of their lockdown series on 17 April 2020. It tells the story of a man, a travelling salesman and sole income earner in his family, who wakes up one morning as […]

Here is a link to the RNZ interview with Sam Hunt, including his reading of his ode to Aotearoa in lockdown ‘Keeping On’, written during the lockdown in April 2020. There are also several links to earlier interviews with him. https://www.rnz.co.nz/national/programmes/eastermonday/audio/2018742466/sam-hunt-finding-poetic-inspiration

The free online concerts continue, this time (19 April) with a celebration of Beethoven’s music on the 250th anniversary of his birth. https://www.facebook.com/newzealandsymphonyorchestra/videos/573762303264740/?__tn__=%2CdkCH-R-R&eid=ARBhyOee0xiVoslIcBwvAjKKa__AWPbXBZNyHwNgJBRUgv_tSNMtwzqNgN6zssHf1aSlQwZzAkGsOlpF&hc_ref=ART_J4rillbffLmRaoHr-LoR-JpzDB7wyr0IlTy2TkY4N2vdflm35497_v3f9ji8y-A&fref=nf&hc_location=group