Next year's winery tour features two well known faces - and one semi-new one.

The weather didn't ruin the first day of the Auckland Diwali Festival, but protesters had a go at spoiling a "joyous moment", an organiser says.

The Dixie Chicks are set to bring their multi-Grammy Award winning music to the Mission Estate Winery landscape next April.

With a massive lineup and a killer Bay of Plenty location, Bay Dreams is shaping up to be an amazing New Year's festival.

Auckland's inaugural month-long Korea festival gets under way tonight.

An accidental Auckland music festival is returning for its second year, and its organiser admits there are "probably too many acts" on the bill.

Despite last summer's somewhat disastrous festival season, our options are still looking pretty good.

Raglan-based music festival Soundsplash is returning in 2017 with the likes of Six60, Maala and Diaz Grimm ready to wow the crowds.

The area's creativity is on show, writes Sara Bunny.

Festival fans have cause to celebrate - Auckland's biggest music event is coming back for round two.

At a whopping $1.45 million a ticket, Iceland's Secret Solstice Festival has got to be the most expensive party ever.

The promoters of an all-new hip-hop festival in Auckland are confident their line-up of veteran hip-hop acts will deliver.

How did Auckland's newest music festival cope with crowds of 25,000? The Herald team takes a look at the things you might have missed at Auckland City Limits.

Bone Thugs-N- Harmony will headline an all-new hip-hop festival in Auckland in May, it has been confirmed.

Prime Minister John Key was among guests at the festival today.

Campbell Smith says Beck was supposed to on the bill at this weekend's Auckland City Limits festival, but "we couldn't make it work".

Booker and Pulitzer Prize-winning authors and standout New Zealand writers are lined up for the Auckland Writers Festival.

Brass Poppies may be a chamber opera, but its 70 minutes achieved the vision and the resonances that one might not find in a piece twice its length.

Where else can you watch 150 hand-picked amateur dancers, aged 10-75 and trained by a French-Canadian choreographer, bust a move in public?

Two major music festivals are expected to be basking in sun as Splore and Raggamuffin kick off the weekend's musical activities.

Continuing to add to the attractions of music, great food, and kids activities, Auckland City Limits has now announced its artwork programme for the festival on Saturday, March 19 at Western Springs.

Auckland City Limits announces a new facet to the festival today: Auckland Kiddie Limits.

He's known for going ballistic at his live shows, jumping around, over and on to his mixing desk. He'll often invite as many crowd members as will fit on stage to dance to his mashed-up medleys.

Auckland's Laneway Festival, with a near sellout crowd, graced Silo Park on the waterfront yesterday for what's rumoured to be the last time.

Follow all the action from today's Laneway music festival in Auckland with as many reviews as Chris Schulz, Rachel Bache and Amy Shanks can muster.

A Laneway act has pulled out of his performance just hours before the Auckland festival was due to begin.

Five artists worth checking out at this year's Laneway Festival.

Chris Schulz tries to track down mysterious musical pixie Grimes ahead of her Laneway appearance.

Purity Ring's gloomy grind now comes with dance moves. They tell Chris Schulz why.

It's the music that matters, says flamboyant artist.