Tauranga's Mills Reef has been listed at the first venue to host the annual Winery Tour early next year, with Dave Dobbyn and Don McGlashan performing together as the main headline act.
The iconic New Zealand duo will be joined by a reunited Supergroove and Anika Moa. It's the ninth year the tour has operated and will run between late January and the start of March.
The Mutton Birds at the Classic Hits Winery Tour, Wharepai Domain, last year. Photo/file
This tour will be the first to be performed at Mills Reef Winery instead of the Wharepai Domain, where it has been hosted every other year.
Between them, Dobbyn and McGlashan have won five prestigious APRA Silver Scroll awards for Song of the Year. They also have multiple hit albums between their solo releases, Th' Dudes, The Front Lawn, DD Smash, Blam Blam Blam and the Mutton Birds.
Dobbyn said: "I'm so looking forward to playing the 2015 Winery Tour! Great line up! Don, our band and I have a great chemistry after performing together here, in Oz and in the UK. It'll be such a pleasure to play in idyllic surroundings with relaxed summer audiences. Let's rock together."
McGlashan was also looking forward to the tour.
"Dave and I duetted around the country last year on the Acoustic Church Tour, and then had a blast taking that tour to Australia and the UK. We've discovered that we love working together, so co-headlining Winery 2015 is a dream come true."
Che Fu said hitting the road with Supergroove on the Winery Tour would be a fantastic way to spend a Kiwi summer.
"This summer is gonna be leeeegend. So lookin' forward to rockin' stages with my SG broski's and of course with Anika, Don, and Yoda (Dave to everyone else). Yeee haaaaa!"
We are really excited to stage the first Winery Tour show at Mills Reef Winery in Tauranga, the only new venue on this run.
Anika Moa has been part of the Winery Tour for the last seven years and said she was looking forward to playing it again.
"I've fallen in love, out of love, sung with all my might, drunk some of the finest wines, played with some of Aotearoa's best musos and then some. It feels good to be back to sing and laugh with my kind of audience! It's also a good chance to play some of the new songs off my very new album set to be released in the New Year. Look out people. I'm back!"
Co-promoter Campbell Smith promised concertgoers a unique and unforgettable experience.
"This tour is about great New Zealand music, great New Zealand wine and food, stunning locations and the warm and balmy nights of summer. It's all about feeling good with friends and family, kicking off your shoes, having a wine or two, a dance and singing along. And for the 2015 Winery Tour we believe that we have one of the greatest line-ups of talent we have ever put together, to play in the best wineries in the country.
"We have re-tooled the tour for 2015, focusing on fewer wineries and scheduling our shows on the best days of each week of the tour.
"We are really excited to stage the first Winery Tour show at Mills Reef Winery in Tauranga, the only new venue on this run. The tour has enjoyed many memorable years at Wharepai Domain, but when the chance came to move to a stunning winery environment nearby, a venue that has its own great history of live shows, we had to take it."
The 2015 Tour will visit the following regions.
Tickets (and bus/ticket packages) go on sale on Tuesday 28th October at an Early Bird price of $69 plus booking fee (ticket only). The Early Bird price will end on 30th November, the ticket price will then increase to $79 plus booking fee (ticket only) from 1st December.
Tickets can be purchased via the Winery Tour website www.winerytour.co.nz and Ticketmaster 0800 111 999 or www.ticketmaster.co.nz.
One child under the age of 12 will be given free admittance when accompanied by one adult ticket holder.
The Winery Tour 2015 Dates: Saturday 24 January Tauranga Mills Reef Sunday 25 January Auckland Villa Maria Estate Winery (Auckland Anniversary Weekend) Saturday 7 February Matakana Ascension Wine Estate Friday 13 February Havelock North Black Barn Vineyards Saturday 14 February Martinborough Luna Estate (formerly known as Alana Estate) Friday 20 February Hamilton Vilagrad Saturday 21 February New Plymouth Sentry Hill Winery Friday 27 February Upper Moutere Neudorf Vineyards Saturday 28 February Waipara Waipara Hills
