Dimension Festival 2023- Northland

Dimension Festival is a boutique music and arts festival where you quite literally enter a new dimension. Music plays non-stop for 72 hours in this dead zone of cell coverage. Being able to disconnect, but… View Post

AUM Festival – NYE 2023

AUM New Year’s Festival is a 3-day, family friendly arts and music festival an hour west of Auckland. Located in South Head, it is a magical place with no cell reception. With 4 stages, a… View Post

Sunsetter Food, Wine & Music Festival

Last Saturday was my first festival of the season: Sunsetter in Albany, Auckland. This day festival had humble beginnings as a food and wine festival with music as an after thought. After progressing in popularity,… View Post

Golden Lights vs Plane Sailing

The 2021-2022 summer festival season has been – weird – to say the least. New Zealand as a country changed from the Covid Alert Level System to the Traffic Light System. When this happened, different… View Post

Winetopia – Auckland 2021

Winetopia is a yearly event run in Auckland, Wellington and Christchurch, is known as “A Celebration of New Zealand Wine.” Cancelled last year due to Covid-19, I was excited to attend the event on a… View Post

Splore 2021

The theme of Splore Festival 2021 was MOTHER. The annual arts & musical festival was postponed a month due to Covid-19 Lockdowns. This year was a much better experience than 2019, mainly due to weather,… View Post

Wanaka Beer Festival

Living in wine country had me craving some good craft beer. When I saw tickets for the Wanaka Beerfest, I got tickets with a girl-friend during the first release. Getting in early saw you saving… View Post

Mardi Gras Festival – Queenstown

Being from Louisiana I am still confused why there is a festival in the winter, in New Zealand, called ‘Mardi Gras’. Since moving to Central Otago I have been catching up with friends in the… View Post