New Year's Eve will be celebrated in Middle Eastern style at King Street Live in Masterton with TrinityRoots, The Nudge and a host of guest performers helping to ring in the new year at the Masterton venue.
Bar manager Al Maxwell says the front doors of the venue will be closed on December 31 and a "bespoke grand entrance" will be built through the rear garden bar which will welcome party-goers to the Middle Eastern-themed New Year party.
Wellington band TrinityRoots, which features King Street Live co-owner Warren Maxwell, will offer party-goers roots reggae tunes and a stripped back, jazz and soul set of songs for which the trio are renowned.
Drummer Ben Wood and bassist Rio Hemopo round out the latest incarnation of the band, which formed in the late 1990s and according to their promotional literature continue to play "an intoxicating blend of roots reggae that shifts between gently undulating grooves, soul-baring anthems and full on psyche-rock jams, forming undeniably indigenous waiata, totally unconstrained by genre boxes".
The Nudge are a Wellington-based "psych soul blues rock" trio comprising singer and guitarist Ryan Prebble, organ player and bass keyboardist James Coyle, and drummer Iraia Whakamoe.
