One week to go

It’s hard to believe after all the planning and preparations that we are only one week away from the opening of the 5th Festival of Colour. But it is definitely feeling very autumnal as the temperatures drop and we’ve had our first frosts. The leaves on the trees are turning just in time, and our beautiful festival flags are fluttering in the breeze on Cardrona Valley Road to herald the start of the festival!

The Crystal Palace arrives this week and will start being built, and so it’s all go….

Don’t forget to buy your tickets now if you haven’t already – still many tickets available for many shows just pop down to the box office this week in the Lake Wanaka Centre – 8.30am to 3pm. And if you have already bought tickets then please do come and collect them this week if you are able, as we anticipate there being big queues next week!

And don’t forget our website – www.festivalofcolour.co.nz is the easiest way to buy tickets or phone 03 443 4162. The Cromwell Isite has tickets for Cromwell shows ($2 booking fee) and the Queenstown Isite has ticket for all the Queenstown shows ($2 booking fee and cash only).

Between Darkness and Light – Concert FM

This beautiful premiere will feature on Upbeat with Eva Radich on Radio New Zealand Concert today . Soprano Jenny Wollerman (pictured)will talk about some of the planning behind this extraordinary work “Basically I started out in planning the content with the idea of the theme of ‘light’ that would link all the songs… and this set off a pathway of exploration that eventually led to the programme we have finalised. It will not be an ‘ordinary’ recital. We are performing a whole raft of different songs from different eras, composers, and countries. One that both Michael (Houstoun)and I have found particularly ingratiating to work on, and which we neither of us knew well at all, is Fauré’s ‘En Sourdine’ from Opus 58”

Between Darkness and Light – Wednesday 17 April 7pm Lake Wanaka Centre. Tickets $38.Book now! http://www.festivalofcolour.co.nz/act/light

Festival Pick of the Week

This week our Crystal Palace manager, Liz Breslin, makes her choice “It’s a tricky one, but my pick would probably be Poetry and Song. The line between good poems and good songs is a bit blurry anyway. Hannah Griffin’s renditions (pictured above) take Bill Manhire’s brilliant words to a new level. I’m not alone in this opinion, if the weeping at the preview was anything to go by. It’s a real art to take great words and make them better, as Norman Meehan has here. “

Poetry and Song plays at the Central Lakes Trust Crystal Palace Saturday 20 April 2pm Tickets $10. Book now!

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