Hundreds of young performers entertained family, friends and supporters on Thursday at the third annual North Wairarapa Schools Cultural Festival held for the first time in Eketahuna.
Trudy Sears, Wairarapa REAP schools liaison and festival coordinator, said about 350 schoolchildren performed at the event, entertaining with kapa haka, choral, contemporary and classical music, and modern and folk dancing.
Eketahuna School hosted the event and ran a food and refreshments stall as a fund-raiser. The other schools represented were Eketahuna, Pahiatua, Ballance, Woodville, St Anthony's, Papatawa, Hillcrest, Alfredton and Norsewood & Districts schools.
A kapa haka group from Tararua College also took the stage, while children from Pahiatua Kindergarten were part of the audience.
Norsewood & Districts School students performed a Scandinavian dance, and St Anthony's schoolchildren performed Stomp dancing.
