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Look for the After Dark flag for edgy events when your grandma’s in bed

4 Concept6 Concert Arma del Amor8 On the beat Gig Alert: LIPS10 On stage The Wine Project 11 Concert Eb & Sparrow12 On the scene The Art of Coffee14 Spotlight on Viva la Festival of Colour

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18 Destinations Festival of Colour Map18 On/Off What’s On & What’s not19 On point Like There’s No Tomorrow20 Creations Henry Hargreaves23 On the town Loving it Live24 Concerts Mel Parsons26 Inspiration Poetry by Liz Breslin

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symposium In Ancient Greece, the symposium was a tightly choreographed social occasion where participants gathered to converse about life and literature whilst enjoying wine, entertainment and a convivial atmosphere. The everyday restraints of their regimented environment were cast away, and instead space was made for discussion, music, dance, jokes, games of skill and balance.

This special edition takes an insider’s glance at the sumptuous symposium that is the Festival of Colour. The following pages are a tasty morsel of the decadent portions of dance, drama, music, sculpture, photography and painting on offer over the six days of the Festival. Based in Wanaka and reaching out to Queenstown, Bannockburn and Cromwell, the Festival brings a transformative week of performance, art and talks to Central Otago. The works and artists we are lucky enough to have in our midst provide scope for inspiration, reflection and celebration, as did the symposia of classical times. Read ON to discover our views on what to see and where to be seen this Festival season.

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You’ve both been kicking around the Wanaka music scene for a while. Who’s idea was it to form a band?We’d both had our own solo projects going long before we met each other in 2011. We actually went on an acoustic tour together as separate acts at the end of that year, and it was around then that we chatted about starting a project together. We both wanted to create music people could get up and dance to, but also relax and get all daydreamy to.

Like The White Stripes, The Kills and Sonny & Cher, you are a boy-girl duo. Is there a yin and yang power in musical collaboration between the sexes?Definitely! Me and Danny have slowly worked each other out, our strengths, weaknesses and have found a solid way to work together and get the best out of each other.

We looked up “Arma del Amor” and we’re pretty sure it translates to “Love Gun”. Is

this a reference to: A) the KISS song, B) naughty stuff, or C) something else totally?B! Naaa ... It was a name that Danny came up with while travelling. We were pressed to find a name as our song was being released on a video, so after scrambling through ideas he came up with that. We like the symmetry of it and also the ambiguous meaning. Make of it what you will.

Which one of you has the most tattoos?Danny, the ‘International Ink Addict’.

Who would win in an eighties electronica smack-down between Human League, New Order and Depeche Mode?Depeche Mode and New Order would have it out for a while, but then Depeche Mode would drop ‘Enjoy the Silence’ and they would win.

Wanaka has an extraordinary creative scene that just seems to keep growing. What is it about this place that fosters such good art?There are a lot of like-minded people in Wanaka, and I’d say they are drawn by the town’s beauty and power. Their

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Since releasing their debut EP in 2013, Wanaka electronic duo Arma del Amor (instrumentalist Danny Fairley AKA Civilian Sol and vocalist Martine Harding) have been called everything from dynamic and unearthly, to symbiotic, to hypnotic. They tore the hills down at this year’s Rhythm & Alps festival and they’re soon to release their first full-length album. LAURA WILLIAMSON had a chat with Martine about origins, ink and the meaning of “Love Gun”.

creativity is fed by the same thing, and of course by the other artists that you get to know so closely. Everyone is very humble and real in Wanaka, no one’s trying just for the sake of being an artist.

What’s the first album you ever owned? Mine was The Commodore’s ‘Natural High’. It’s actually quite good.That’s some good funk right there! I was a 90’s frother, so obviously mine was Spice Girls on Compact Disc. That. I. Thraaaashed. Danny cranked Smashing

Pumpkins ‘Siamese Dream’. Did I mention there’s an age gap?

Describe your sound in one sentence.A blend of hypnotic vocals over dreamy pads and chest-swelling bass.

What’s ON for the rest of 2015? Album. Tour. Live shows. NZ. The world!

See Arma del Amor live at the Central Lake Crystal Palace on Saturday 25 April at 11pm. And don’t miss the After Dark after party at Gin & Raspberry.

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When I think of LIPS, I think of black and red. LIPS is the pseudonym/public persona of Kiwi-bred, New York-based electro pop artist Stephanie Brown, and the black is for her Noir-esque sonic landscapes, dark takes on the early days of synth, like ‘Night Call’ a, yes, driving cover of Kavinsky’s track from the Drive soundtrack. It’s very eighties, but what the eighties would have been if they’d been bleaker and smarter and Rick Astley had never been born. Then there’s the Daft Punk-y ‘Freddy Bardot’, upbeat, yet still with a touch of the femme fatale: “If you're thinking about dating Freddy Bardot / One thing you should know / Freddy Bardot has been down on his knees / Every day Freddy beggin' me please.”

The red, of course, is for LIPS; all of Brown’s pubilicity and cover photographs feature the LIPS character, a pair of big red lips on legs – lips not painted on, but worn, as a sort

four dudes standing in front of a wall, for example. I use LIPS in all my press photographs and videos. She is the face of [the band] LIPS. She represents the female songwriter/producer, as well as the voice of unique creative expression that we all have.” A native of Devonport on Auckland’s North Shore, Brown played keyboard for the likes of Anika Moa before heading to New York in 2007. Her song ‘Everything to me’ won the Silver Scroll, New Zealand’s top songwriting award, in 2012, and her second EP, Look, Listen was released later that year. A full-length album is due later in 2015. Brown credits her classic electronic sound to an eighties youth. “I was born in the eighties, so I definitely listened to that music growing up. I started out as a keyboard player and I love the sound of old vintage synths.” This nostalgia is especially evident in her cover of Paul Young's 'Every Time You Go Away' (which, she informs us,

was actually written by Darryl Hall from Hall and Oates!). “I really wanted to try a super stripped down version of that song so the melody was naked and exposed. I changed the verse but the chorus is the same,” she says. You can catch LIPS twice at the year’s Festival of Colour. She arranged the music for Rochelle Bright’s Daffodils, a poignant portrait of Bright’s childhood set to a Kiwiana songbook including Crowded House, the Mint Chicks and Blam Blam Blam. And LIPS will playing as part of the After Dark programme. LIPS performs as a two-piece, Brown on vocals, bass synth, lead and rhythm synth, and Fen Ikner taking on vocal, drum and sampling duties. Their set is entirely live, no pre-recording, and for the Festival of Colour gig they’ll be joined for a few songs by the third Daffodils band member, Abraham Kunin, on guitar. To misquote Hall and Oates – LIPS is on our list for the 2015 Festival of Colour. xLAURA WILLIAMSON

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of replacement head, a or mask. As Brown explains, “I wanted to create a character to represent my music, to be the face of Lips instead of me. So many band photographs look the same,

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Living here among the vine-embroidered hillsides of Central Otago, we know what Bacchus was about. We understand wine to be more than a drink, or something to accompany our food. It is a time, a place and a culture, each glass the conclusion of an equation that reflects the soil, the climate, the aspect, the zeitgeist and the history of the patch of land from which its grapes came, as well as the knowledge of the winemaker, her or his training, skill, tastes and, sometimes, life story.

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“There in the glass was the soil of a place and in that soil was a soul” - Java Dance Company

So it’s appropriate that it is here we’ll see the world premiere of ‘The Wine Project’, the latest offering from Wellington’s Java Dance Company. The project had its inception in French wine country, during a residency at La Porte Peinte Centres Pour les Arts in Noyers-sur-Serein, a medieval village

in Burgundy, France, and it equates the process of wine-making, to that of the civilising of humanity. Through dance, the transformation of the simple singular grape to the multiply layered textures and flavours becomes a journey from basic human needs to the complexities of societies: war, religion, learning and maybe even love.

We can’t wait. Java was founded in 2003 by choreographer Sacha Copland and graduates of the New Zealand School of Dance, and the troupe has become known for innovation. Their work ‘Back of the Bus’ takes place on an actual bus as it rolls through city streets, while ‘Rise’ saw the dancers covered in flour and dough.

We heard the workshopping process for ‘The Wine Project’ included building images based on a late-night Pinot Noir tasting as well as rolling around with a bunch of fruit and spices. We’re expecting something squishy, and aromatic—just like our favourite wines.

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When Eb & Sparrow perform live, they create a magical atmosphere that hypnotises their audience, instantly soothing all souls in the room - worth seeing for this reason alone.

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The secret ingredient of this audible elixir is lead singer Ebony Lamb’s velveteen vocals, peppered with occasional soul-tingling wails, at once nostalgic and uplifting. Her voice flows like wine, casting a glow over an undulating soundscape of guitar, lap steel, bass, percussion, harmonica, drums and backing vocals - punctuated by occasional country’n’westernesque troublemaker trumpet. Lamb’s alto has a sharp edge reminiscent of a rough-hewn jewel, polished when pushed through carefully-controlled vocal chords to reveal prismatic depths.

Eb & Sparrow are Ebony Lamb, Bryn Heveldt, Nick Brown, Jason Johnson and Chris Winter - a 5-piece nu-folk/Americana band based in Wellington. With 3 EPs already under their belts, they launched their debut full-length album in September 2014. This 10-song self-titled album was recorded by award-winning producer Ben Edwards, at his Sitting Room Studio in Lyttelton. Rave reviews have

ensued, a popularity perhaps aided by the raw vulnerability of Lamb’s lyrical storytelling. The bittersweet catalyst of Lamb’s journey to becoming a celebrated singer-songwriter was a relationship breakup six years ago.

The new album weaves together themes of nature, longing and loneliness. Musical comparisons are inevitable, with Eb inspiring name dropping of the likes of Cowboy Junkies, Cat Power, KD Lang, Gillian Welch, even Janis Joplin. In Lamb’s own words, they “cast aching crescendoes of a time long gone, into a modern landscape.”

Eb & Sparrow effortlessly weave a sense of timelessness with contemporary themes, a yearning for simplicity and connection. These talented and soulful musicians are worth making the time for. Catch them at the After Dark session, Friday 24 April, 11pm, Central Lakes Trust Crystal Palace.Find out more at: ebandsparrow.co.nzFREDA WELLS

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Coffee has long been the subject of art, maybe because it’s an inexpensive indulgence artists have always been able to afford, maybe because it’s a minor vice that offers a hint of edge without the creatively destructive potential of alcohol or, say, smack. Either way, we love a bit of caffeine

creativity, so to get into the Café groove, here are five of our fav examples of coffee-inspired art.

BLACK COFFEE by Marianne FaithfulType of art: SongLong after she traded in her role of Mick Jagger’s ingénue to that of paragon

of wrecked beauty, Marianne Faithfull recorded this Sarah Vaughan cover, a jazzy ode to the world of the caffeine blues, where everybody’s lonely and “love’s a hand me down brew.” NIGHTHAWKS, 1942 by Edward HopperType of art: PaintingCaptured on canvas, the exact feeling of giving oneself over to insomnia, when there is nothing left to do but to drink coffee long after dark together, yet alone, with the other denizens of urban sleeplessness. COFFEE by Richard BrautiganType of art: Poem“Sometimes life is merely a matter of coffee and whatever intimacy a cup of coffee affords.”

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Top Wanaka coffee haunt Federal Diner will this April host the world premiere of Café, a site-specific play written by Rachel Callinan and Paul McLaughlin about a busy café that keeps getting busier—due, it turns out, to the java-rrific ministrations of hipster barista Che. But what will happen when the cafe runs out of the good stuff?

PORTLANDIAType of art: TV showThe Portlandia coffee shop manifesto: No chatter at counter, no bathroom use before you order, leave fresh baked goods to the bakeries, no cell phones, no questions. INTERGALACTIC by the Beastie BoysType of art: RapOK, not entirely about coffee, but how about this lyric? Java gold. “When it comes to beats, well I’m a fiend / I like my sugar with coffee and cream / I got to keep it going, keep it going full steam.” Be part of the Café buzz every night during the Festival of Colour at Federal Diner. Performances at 5pm and 7pm.LAURA WILLIAMSON

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Look alive, Lakes District - “the best little arts festival in New Zealand” is upon us. Now in its tenth year, the biannual Festival of Colour brings a vibrant array of top international circus, dance, music and theatre acts as well as art, photography and Aspiring Conversations to Central Otago for one unforgettable week in April. Clear your calendar from April 21 – 27 and prepare to be wowed as you enter a whimsical world of cutting edge performance and talks. There’s much in store to charm the senses and nourish the mind. The punchy programme features the world premieres of two Dave Armstrong plays as well as Knee Deep, the first ever circus staged in the festival’s Central Lakes Trust Crystal Palace, and the 2014 Auckland Theatre Award winning play Daffodils – a beguiling love story punctuated with quintessential Kiwi music hits.Federal Diner hosts the world premiere of Café, the final chapter in the intimate

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series (Hotel, Salon) in which audience members become voyeurs within a site-specific play set in a buzzing coffee house. Elements of what you experience at the Festival may delight or surprise you. We’ll see confronting community theatre that raises questions around youth and risk-taking behaviour (pg 19). Dance dynamo Douglas Wright brings his provocative new work The Kiss Inside south of the Bombay Hills for the first time. The visual arts are well represented: giant

Sparking things off will be Ahi Kaa – Fires of Occupation where artists Ross Hemera, Priscilla Cowie and Su Proebster igniting sculptures on and off the lake. We are in for a treat. In the words of Arma del Amor’s Martine Harding, “let this light you up.” ANNABEL WILSONEditor / Festival of Colour Trustee

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typography will be crafted live by Young Gifted & Broke’s Nigel Roberts as he is accompanied by djs at Gin and Raspberry. Large scale photography from Kiwi-boy-done-good-in-NYC Henry Hargreaves (pg 20) is bound to bewitch. Dark Cloud White Light promises to bring an empirical exploration of the Central landscape through Joe Michael’s fully immersive installation – lie back and take it all in from the comfort of a shaggy sheepskin beanbag! And Gallery 33 features an exhibition of new works by abstract expressionist painter Cristina Popovici.In terms of music, the line up is loaded with the full spectrum of gigs from a fusion of jazz and classical sounds in Mike Nock’s Vicissitudes to the meteoric electronica of local darlings Arma del Amor (pg 6). Julia Deans opens Joni Mitchell’s songbook in Both Sides Now – interpreting Mitchell’s imagery in a profoundly personal way. The new After Dark sessions will see venues transformed as festival-goers get their late-night jive on at the likes of Civilian Sol, Eb and Sparrow and LIPS (pg 8 ). Aspiring Conversations, the festival’s literary, science and socio-political debating sessions, return with talks from documentary-maker and photographer Craig Potton, internationally renowned psychologist Michael Corballis and writers Graeme Simsion and Anne Buist.

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MONDAY 20 APRILw Like There’s No Tomorrow (preview), 7pm, Gin & Raspberryw Ahi Ka – Fires of Occupation, 7.30pm, Wanaka Lakefront

TUESDAY 21 APRIL w Joseph Michael - Dark cloud / white light, 10am-7pm, Armstrong Room, Lake Wanaka Centre (April 21-27)w The Coffee Cantata, 12noon & 10pm, Central Lakes Trust Crystal Palacew The Bookbinder, 4pm, Masonic Lodge w Café, 5pm & 7pm, Federal Diner w Central, 7pm, Queenstown Memorial Hallw Like There’s No Tomorrow, 7pm, Gin & Raspberryw The Ballad of Backbone Joe, 7pm, Luggate Memorial Hallw Knee Deep – Casus Circus, 6pm & 8pm, Central Lakes Trust Crystal Palacew The Kiss Inside, 8pm, Lake Wanaka Centre

WEDNESDAY 22 APRIL w The Bookbinder, 11am & 6pm, Masonic Lodge w The Wine Project, 12noon & 11pm, Central Lakes Trust Crystal Palace

w Café, 5pm & 7pm, Federal Diner w Like There’s No Tomorrow, 7pm, Gin & Raspberryw Mike Nock Trio and NZTrio, 7pm, Lake Wanaka Centrew The Ballad of Backbone Joe, 7pm, Luggate Memorial Hallw Daffodils, 8.30pm, Central Lakes Trust Crystal Palace

THURSDAY 23 APRILw The Wandering Mind - Michael Corballis, 2pm, Central Lakes Trust Crystal Palace w Behind the Curtain and Inside the Notes, 12noon, Central Lakes Trust Crystal Palace w Café, 5pm & 7pm, Federal Diner w The Bookbinder, 6pm, Masonic Lodge w Central, 7pm, Lake Wanaka Centre w Like There’s No Tomorrow, 7pm, Gin & Raspberry

w Copenhagen Royal Chapel Choir, 6pm, Holy Family Catholic Churchw Café, 5pm & 7pm, Federal Diner w Like There’s No Tomorrow, 7pm, Gin & Raspberryw Royale Riot, 7pm, Bannockburn Memorial Hallw The Hard Road, 8.30pm, Central Lakes Trust Crystal Palace Arma del Amor, 11pm, Central Lakes Trust Crystal Palace Jake Kilby, Civilian Sol and street artist Nigel Roberts, 12am, Gin & Raspberry

SUNDAY 26 APRIL w Walking and Wilderness- Craig Potton, Sir Alan Mark and Alison Ballance, 10am, Central Lakes Trust Crystal Palacew Generation Rent - Shamubeel Eaqub and Andrew Deans, 11.30am, Central Lakes Trust Crystal Palacew Southern Sinfonia, 1pm, Lake Wanaka Centrew Mel Parsons, 3pm, Central Lakes Trust Crystal Palacew Café, 5pm & 7pm, Federal Diner w Rodger Fox Big Band, 8.30pm, Central Lakes Trust Crystal Palace

MONDAY 27 APRIL w The Pianist, 12noon, Lake Wanaka Centre

w The Ballad of Backbone Joe, 7pm, Luggate Memorial Hallw Daffodils, 8.30pm, Central Lakes Trust Crystal Palace LIPS, 11pm, Central Lakes Trust Crystal Palace

FRIDAY 24 APRIL w Anzac Eve, 11am & 6pm, MasonicLodgew Art at Home, Wanaka residencesw True Stories Told Live, 2pm, Central Lakes Trust Crystal Palacew Café, 5pm & 7pm, Federal Diner w Central, 7pm, Lake Wanaka Centrew Like There’s No Tomorrow, 7pm, Gin & Raspberryw Royale Riot, 7pm, Hawea Flat Hallw Both Sides Now, 8.30pm, Central Lakes Trust Crystal Palace Eb & Sparrow, 11pm, Central Lakes Trust Crystal Palace

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w Street Theatre, 12noon, CBDw The Somewhat Crazy Worlds of Simsion and Buist, 12.30pm, Central Lakes Trust Crystal Palace w Michael Houstoun Plays the Goldberg Variations, 2pm, Lake Wanaka Centre

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FRIDAY 17 APRILw Cristina Popovici exhibition opening, Gallery 33, at 5pm.

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Like There’s No Tomorrow is no morality play. The show is an ‘honest fiction’, evolving from the real life stories of teenagers in Auckland and Wanaka to raise questions around issues that affect young people in every New Zealand community: risk taking, identity, sexuality, dependence, machismo, peer pressure. There are no answers here. But the show shines a light on some of the darker parts of being a teen and what this means. Through the experience of working in this immersive theatre production, the cast and crew have been challenged to explore the complexities of life for Gen Z and they’re now inviting their audience to join them. The line between performer and audience is blurred as theatre-goers become part of the action at an after-ball party, two weeks since the protagonist has died in a drunken prank gone wrong.

Joseph’s mates are grieving in their own ways; his sister is struggling to define who she is in the mess he’s left behind and his girlfriend is emerging from a self-induced haze. But the recently deceased Joseph isn’t a ghost. He’s merely “different versions of me based on something I may have said once or a way I may have made them feel, all mixed in together and fragmented like shattered glass.” It’s the spectators who gather up the shrapnel of Joey and what he represents as the actors lead the audience from space to space, moment to moment. At the show’s heart is a raw authenticity that resonates long after. This is theatre that really matters.ANNABEL WILSON

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New York-based Kiwi photographer Henry Hargreaves started his career in front of the camera as a model, appearing in campaigns for brands like Prada, Givenchy and YSL. These days, he is finding success behind the lens, gaining an international following thanks to his provocative still lifes, including ‘No Seconds’, depicting the last meal request of America’s most notorious death row inmates, and ‘Burning Calories’, a series featuring fast food on fire, literally burning. It’s work that always evokes a reaction – after all, everyone can relate to food! Henry also recently shot the cover of Eat, Pray, Love author Elizabeth Gilbert’s latest book. Check the following pages for a sampling of Hargreaves’ work, and see it in real life during the Festival of Colour. He’ll be exhibiting at four locations with great food of their own: Lot3, Urban Grind, Cherry May and Francesca’s Italian Restaurant. henryhargreaves.com

FOOD FOR THOUGHT: Henry Hargreaves

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During the Festival, if you fancy a drink and some live music before or after a show, you’re in luck. Pop in for a pint at one of Wanaka’s many watering holes and you’re likely to catch loquacious sounds from a top local act. ONmag has the skinny on two hot venues and drinks to sample if you want to rock out Central-style.

ROCK HOPPER at Speights Ale HouseThursday April 23, 8 – 10pmSound: Wanaka’s favourite party band. Sexy covers and acoustic grooves.Spot: Big tables outside and in, rural-chic décor of wood and stone, cosy nooks for canoodling. Drink match: Speights triple hop pilsner. A clean, Czech-inspired lager with a biscuity finish.

CIVILIAN SOL with street artist NIGEL ROBERTS at Gin & RaspberryFriday April 25, midnightSound: Ear candy for late night shufflers and after party shakers. Cut loose music.Spot: An upstairs haven. Cocktails and dreams, 1920s style.Drink match: The Gin and Raspberry is an absolute must. Select either Hayman’s London Dry Gin or No.3 Gin, combined with Chambord, lemon juice, raspberries, sugar syrup, fresh mint with a raspberry sugar rim. Seductively delicious.

wONdering where to go for a debrief on the show? ON also recommends… Red Star for the best burgers in NZ, The Luggate pub for a roast, the Bannockburn pub for a pinot noir, Amigos for margaritas, Lala Land for James’ Breakfast at Tiffany’s cocktail, The White House for affagato, Fitzpatricks for a cheeky dram of whisky.

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LOVING IT LIVE with NIGEL ROBERTSI first met Nige back in the heyday of the Daggers crew, when he was making a skateboarding movie on Super 8. These days he’s still interested in all things old-school and analogue, having been coined the Kiwi “king of typography” by endemicworld’s Elliot Alexander. As part of the Festival of Colour’s new After Dark series, he’ll be showcasing his signwriting talents at Gin and Raspberry over the itchy-feet beats of Civilian Sol and Jake Kilby. It’s going to be a late-night, laissez faire affair, a fusion of expression, art and soul. Bring your ticket from the Arma del Amor gig for free entry, or try your luck on the door for just ten bucks.

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Anyone who has heard Mel Parsons sing will know she possesses a sublime set of pipes and can turn a phrase that'll both make you think and break your heart. But did you know she's also a kick-ass skier? LAURA WILLIAMSON caught up with the up and coming singer-songwriter to find out more.

Mel Parsons grew up on a farm near Cape Foulwind, which is a long way from anywhere, but perhaps the perfect place to incubate a musical sensibility shaped by repeated playings of the records of Cat Stevens, Fleetwood Mac and Dire Straits (we hear she has a crush on Mark Knopfler, but that might just be a rumour). She started playing piano as a child, an instrument she says she still plays “badly”, but it was learning guitar as a teenager that cemented her future career. “I got hooked,” she explains.

Drylands, her third full-length album, recorded in Wellington with engineer Lee Prebble (Phoenix Foundation, The Black Seeds), drops April 10 and the first single, the haunting 'Fly Away', is out now. Wanaka-ites might remember it as Parson's number from the Fly My Pretties gig at Lake Wanaka Centre in 2013. It was one of the stand-out shows of the night, on a night with many stand-outs.

Great music aside, autumn is a time when many South Islanders’ thoughts turn to snow, so we thought we'd fire a few ski-related queries her way.

M E L P A R S O N S : Skier-songwriter

We hear you're a Mount Olympus clubby from way back. When did you start skiing there? I've been going up there since I was about three years old. We used to make the trek over from the West Coast for ski weeks.

What's your favourite run at Olympus? I'd have to say Ardies, or Little Alaska.

We love Ardies too! Great hike, even better slide down. Ski of choice? The Kingswood SMB.

Most epic powder day? I've had a few good ones. Fernie in Canada [Parsons worked in BC and Alberta as a tree planter], and in Austria at the start of 2013 when we got lucky with the weather.

Skiing with music: ON or off? I do have headphones in my helmet, and I sometimes listen to music when I'm skiing alone. But it's not entirely safe; I tend to get carried away with music.

Catch Mel Parsons live at Central Lakes Trust Crystal Palace, Sunday 26 April at 3pm.

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M Y F I R S T W O R L D M A P

My country is red. Others are green,

yellow and sometimes shades.

There are black lines in between.

The sea is blue with dolphins and a boat that goes all the way, all the way across it.

A compass in the corner

tells me which way up we are.

By Liz Breslin

28 magazine

Wanaka’s Iconic Art Deco Café and BarMediterranean cuisine, a stunning Central Otago wine list

and Maverick beer on tap.

Open: Tuesday to Sunday, 5.30pm til late 33 Dunmore St, Wanaka

Ph: 443 9595

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