Juicy Festival got hot up in Whangārei on Wednesday, as Northlanders and visitors to the region celebrated the end of the stormy weather with lots of live music.
People could be seen lining up before 9am to make their way into the one-day music festival, which featured some of the biggest American R&B and hip-hop artists from the late ‘90s and early 2000s.
Whangārei was doused in a month’s worth of rain in sudden wild weather on Tuesday, leaving many concert-goers fearing the festival would be canned.
Around 8000 people are understood to have turned out to see Grammy Award-winners Ne-Yo, Nelly and Mýa along with Chingy, Lloyd, Ja Rule, Bow Wow, Xzibit, Pretty Ricky, and Twista perform.
Image 1 of 22: 30 minutes before the first act was due to perform lines to get into the festival were still spanning almost the entire length of Port Road. Photo / Tania Whyte.