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Tickets selling fast to Christchurch’s Nostalgia Festival

Monday 27th February 2017

Tickets selling fast to Christchurch’s fourth Nostalgia Festival

Tickets are now limited to Saturday’s Nostalgia Festival which sold out in 2016.

Back for its fourth year, the festival held at Ferrymead Heritage Park in the Heathcote Valley, is a showcase of local food, wine, beer, music, art and crafts.

Nostalgia Festival is one-of-a-kind in Christchurch. The boutique festival is run by event organiser Johnny Gibson of Wunderbound. Each year he brings together Christchurch’s best creative and culinary personalities to host an event that celebrates collaboration and sustainability.

With a focus on the environment, Nostalgia partners with Globelet for reusable cups and Our Daily Waste for waste management. Festival goers are encouraged to either car pool, bus or bike to the event to lessen their impact on the environment.

Attendees can try New Zealand grown locusts, supplied by Anteater, a Christchurch-based company specialising in alternative food sources that use less water and produce fewer emissions than conventional farming.

Insects are not the only food on the menu at Nostalgia. There will be over 28 food vendors at the day-long event with vegetarians and vegans well catered for, including organic salads by Bearlion, Alex Davies’ infamous carrot ‘hot dogs’ from his Gatherings restaurant, North American-style baking from Grizzly Bagel, burgers by Heisenburger, handcrafted sorbet by Utopia Ice and cakes from Cakes by Anna.

Wine by Waipara vineyards will be served at the pop-up ‘Growers’ Wine Bar’, and beer brewed specially for Nostalgia Festival will be available. Local breweries Three Boys Beer, Brew Moon, Beer Baroness, Harringtons, Two Thumb and Ghost have each brewed a Nostalgia-themed beer for the event. A six pack of the beers have been available to purchase at select supermarkets and retailers around Christchurch.

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The musical line up at Nostalgia 2017 includes headline acts Liam Finn, Lawrence Arabia and Nadia Reid, with supporting performances by Sal Valentine & The Babyshakes, Bryony Matthews, Emily Fairlight and Christchurch locals Salad Boys.

“This fourth Nostalgia Festival will be the biggest yet, with more food and drink vendors, musicians and contributors involved than ever before,” says Gibson.

“The festival is unlike anything Christchurch has seen before. The alternative music line up, Christchurch’s best food and drink producers, and our emphasis on sustainability makes Nostalgia a unique festival offering.”

Event information


Nostalgia Festival

Saturday 4 March 2017

12.30pm – 7.30pm

Ferrymead Heritage Park, Christchurch

Ticket information

General Admission - $44+BF.
Kids - $15+BF (12 and under; 5 and under free)
Buy tickets here.
Door sales - $55 will be available if the festival is not a sell-out before the event.

The festival is child-friendly and will have a Plunket tent.

Music line-up


National and local acts perform across two stages situated within ‘Central Park’ and Ferrymead Heritage Park’s replica 1800 street. Acts include:

Main StageRDU Stage
1.00pm - Nadia Reid1.30pm - Emily Fairlight
2.00pm - Mini-Snap2.30pm - Bryony Matthews
3.20pm - Lawrence Arabia3.30pm - Gerry Paul & Friends
4.50pm - Liam Finn4.30pm - Salad Boys
6.20pm - Sal Valentine5.30pm - Dictaphone Blues

On the menu
FoodAlcoholic beverages
AnteaterGrowers Wine Bar
BearLionBone Apple Tea by Dancing Sands Distillery
Bellbird Baked Goods
Cakes by AnnaNon-alcoholic beverages
GatheringsAlmighty Juice
Gentle GiantChai Tent
Green Dinner TableGo Cycle Smoothies
Grizzly BagelGreen Roots
HeisenburgerKarma Cola
Horse Shack Food Co.Lyttelton Coffee Company
IndosLoveatWabi O Kombucha
Kung Fu Dumplings
Lettuce Eat
Lucky Pig
Preserved Eat
Richard Till
Roots Restaurant
Sage
Sherpa Kai
The Vagabond Chefs
Town Tonic
Utopia Ice

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