A unique school holidays programme in Napier took to the streets to teach youngsters about one of the central features uptown in Hawke's Bay's tourism capital — busking.
The programme is being run throughout the first week of the fortnight-long break by the Napier Music Academy, which runs courses next door to the Paisley Stage performing centre in Carlyle St, Napier.
But yesterdayit went open-air in the Emerson St shopping precinct, a mainly boys group of primary school pupils took a little guitar tuition from Nick Castles and Ethan Haswell, learning also that it doesn't take a lot to also start earning a bit of money from it.
Among them was 6-year-old Joel Burkett Murillo who was tinkering with the base guitar as Castles launched into Lynyrd Skynyrd's Sweet Home Alabama, a hit about 40 years before most of the group were born.
His burgeoning talent had, however, already been detected by academy director Annabelle Flood who said: "He's just started doing music. He's got some rhythm, man. I'm really impressed."
