Acts lift Rotorua from the blues

Lift for the Blues: Nikau Chater, singing alongside Rob Powley in Rotorua over the weekend.

A crowd, neither big nor small, was entertained with a glut of Blues music in Rotorua at the weekend.

The annual Bay of Plenty Blues Festival attracted the districts finest musicians.

Star attraction was nationally known Midge Marsden.

Music from traditional jazz, the Blues and some of which could be interpreted as pop jazz entertained a mobile crowd in Rotorua's Eat Streat.

The lake end of Tutanekai street is confined to eateries, closed off to vehicular traffic in 2013 as an early phase to modernise the town.

With its permanent overhead canopy, Eat Street – as it is officially known – has become popular.

On Saturday and Sunday, a dais for musicians was set up at the southern end of the street.

Marsden was not the only noted act, which drew in such Rotorua favourites as Mike Garner and Warren Huston.

Clearing her throat beyond her tender years – all 11 of them – was a captivating Nikau Chater.

Nikau, who sang with the larynx of a bird of paradise, at the same sonorous and dulcet, charmed the smallish if continually cloistered throng with her song range.

She was also able to perform alongside her coach, the well-known local musician and school teacher, Rob Powley.

Also playing was local club band, Blues Busters.

The festival lasted over two days.

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