Dennis Marsh, Brendan Duggan and Eddie Low will join Gray Bartlett for a national tour. Photo / Supplied
Dennis Marsh, Brendan Duggan and Eddie Low will join Gray Bartlett for a national tour. Photo / Supplied
Māori music legends Eddie Low and Denis Marsh are hitching up with Brendan Duggan and Gray Bartlett for one more national tour - dubbed the last hurrah.
While most 79-year-olds are putting up their feet in retirement, Low said the four friends were looking forward to the national tour as a “last hurrah” and also his 80th birthday in May.
Gray Bartlett is one of the four NZ Highwaymen. Photo / NZME
Low says despite the advancing years he’s looking forward to performing with Bartlett, Duggan and Marsh as the New Zealand Highwaymen.
Low’s mum Rangitukua Ratana McRoy contracted German measles and tuberculosis during her pregnancy with Eddie. He was born blind because of the German measles, and his mum died just weeks after he was born, succumbing to TB.
Low and his 2-year-old brother were adopted by widow Maria Low - a whanaunga of Rangitukua.
Despite his many challenges, Low, the man with the golden voice, has had a stellar musical career and says though his cancer specialist daughter insists he get fresh tests ahead of the tour to make sure his cancer doesn’t reappear, he’s rearing to go.
“I’ve had so many scans and blood tests, but sometimes things don’t show up, you know?” he told Waatea News.com.
“Hopefully I’m going to be still fit enough to do this tour and, opening on the 6th of May. We’re opening the Sir Howard Morrison Entertainment Centre in Rotorua.”
