Next year's Auckland Arts festival has a Cherry on top with Swedish star Nenah Cherry coming to town. And piano legend John Legend will play Vector Arena in December.

Womad festival has announced its line-up today, and top of the bill is Sinead O'Connor.

R&B legend Angie Stone tells Lydia Jenkin how proud she is to be part of SoulFest line-up next weekend.

Traders at next year's Glastonbury Festival have been banned from selling Native American headdresses following an online petition that got just 65 signatures.

As earlybird tickets go on sale for Womad 2015, the festival has revealed a sneak peek at the line-up, announcing two grand international stars: effervescent balladeer Rufus Wainwright and lifelong star of world music Youssou N'Dour.

Splore Festival, which goes from being biannual to annual next year, has announced another handful of artists to add to the bill for its three-day party from February 20 to 22 at Tapapakanga Regional Park.

Auckland music festival Laneway has confirmed it will return to Silo Park for next year's event, to be held on January 26, 2015.

Relentless rain has put an end to revelry at this year’s Burning Man festival before it could even begin.

Summer is festival time in Edinburgh, and thousands of visitors descend on the Scottish capital to see some of the best new talent in arts and entertainment.

Photos from the 2014 Glastonbury music festival in England.

If you're in a hurry to meet your maker, a religious pilgrimage may be the most direct route.

Fine, warm weather greeted the thousands of people who lined the Queenstown CBD today to take in the action from the Golden Mile and the annual Street Parade.

The sky is the limit as a Northland town turns on the charm for a winter festival, writes Elisabeth Easther.

Small town New Zealand does wonderful and whacky to keep up our winter spirits.

Auckland could be on the verge of inheriting the Raggamuffin reggae music festival from Rotorua.

Aussie rap crew Hilltop Hoods are so big at home they make newspaper headlines just by going out for lunch.

Despite nearly a quarter of Aucklanders being Asian, the wider Kiwi community still has an unwillingness to engage with a group it considers to be "exotic other".

Confirmation that the Rolling Stones are rescheduling their concert in Auckland is not just good news for fans. It is good news for the local economy. Here's how.

Wander the country's hills and dales on one of these picturesque hikes.

Febe Homes and Paul Murtagh were just some of the thousands of people decked in green hats and shamrocks who celebrated St Patrick's Day yesterday.

Danielle Wright discovers ways to paint the town green this St Patrick’s Day.

Palm Springs is party-town again, writes Leena Tailor.

It's one of the city's most popular festivals, but you can enjoy the Pasifika feeling any time of year, writes Catherine Smith.

Audiences are wowed in New Zealand’s cultural hotspot, writes Sarah Lang.

Rachel Bache battles aching feet to take in as much of Melbourne's White Night Festival as she can before sunrise.

Spectators and supporters lined the length of Ponsonby Rd to watch the Pride Parade on Saturday night. More than 40 floats and groups partied their way from Karangahape Rd to Victoria Park, where the Proud after-party carried on into the night.

Mayoress Shan Inglis yesterday accompanied her husband Len Brown to the Howick Military Tattoo - an event from which the mayor had been told to stay away.