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Multi-award winning singer-songwriter Pat McDonald will be on stage at the Wellsford Show this year, with Craig Wilson on bass, Willie Lamont on lead guitar and drummer Mitch Levet.
Six bands playing tunes ranging from country to classical will perform at the big stage at this year’s Country Show.
Rodney College band The Monkey Assassins will be targeting the younger audience with their alternative rock and pop.
The four-piece band placed second at this year’s Smokefree Rockquest Northern regional finals.
The Mangawhai musicians started as schoolmates in 2007 and will be playing White Stripes and Supergrass-inspired tracks.
Back-to-back winner of the New Zealand Country Music Association’s song writing award Pat McDonald will be back again with his band.
They will be belting out 1950s classics along with Pat’s award-winning originals.
Five-piece band, Urban Country, hailing from Hokianga, will be keeping with the show’s family theme. The band is a family affair – Tana Te Whata Junior will be on lead guitar with his grandfather Tana Te Whata Senior, while Tana Junior’s mum Linley will be on vocals and drums.
The band’s influences include CCR, The Eagles and Hank Williams, but they like to mix things up with other 60s and 70s classics.
Tana Junior says he first got into performing through Kapa Haka.
“I soon realised I wanted to be up on stage playing lead guitar with my Grandad,” Tana says.
Urban Country will be on stage from 12-1pm.
Otherwise Fine, The Hard Rock Hudsons and One Black and Two Flat Whites complete the line up.
The Wellsford Line Dancers will be throwing down a bootscootin’ hoedown.
Students from Martin Worthington’s music school will perform when the bands are changing over.
