American hip hop artist Chance the Rapper wooed a capacity crowd on the first day of Rhythm and Vines, telling the crowd he would move to NZ.

You might want to curb your enthusiasm for Auckland City Limits because now you have to wait 'til 2018.

Soundsplash has your summer sorted, rounding off its festival lineup with Tiki Taane, Hollie Smith and a bunch more acts.

This summer's Rhythm and Vines just got a whole lot bigger and better.

As the old saying goes, you wait for one festival headliner to come along, and then three arrive all at once. That's what happened to Mitch Lowe.

Here's the lineup and everything else you need to know if you're planning on heading to WOMAD in 2017.

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.

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.

On a cold Edinburgh night, it's like a slice of a Kiwi summer has come to theatre as Todd Emerson launches into a raucous version of Th' Dudes' Bliss.

Rhythm And Vines has just made its first lineup announcement for 2016, with Chance the Rapper and Rufus headlining the group.

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.

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.

The skies above Carterton were a riot of colour as participants from New Zealand and around the world took to the air for the 2016 Wairarapa Balloon Festival, which wrapped up on Monday.

The British rockers - consisting of Matt Bellamy, Chris Wolstenholme and Dominic Howard - will play the Friday night of the festival in Somerset, England, later this year.

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.