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.
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 Stage | RDU Stage |
1.00pm - Nadia Reid | 1.30pm - Emily Fairlight |
2.00pm - Mini-Snap | 2.30pm - Bryony Matthews |
3.20pm - Lawrence Arabia | 3.30pm - Gerry Paul & Friends |
4.50pm - Liam Finn | 4.30pm - Salad Boys |
6.20pm - Sal Valentine | 5.30pm - Dictaphone Blues |
On the menu
Food | Alcoholic beverages |
Anteater | Growers Wine Bar |
BearLion | Bone Apple Tea by Dancing Sands Distillery |
Bellbird Baked Goods | |
Cakes by Anna | Non-alcoholic beverages |
Gatherings | Almighty Juice |
Gentle Giant | Chai Tent |
Green Dinner Table | Go Cycle Smoothies |
Grizzly Bagel | Green Roots |
Heisenburger | Karma Cola |
Horse Shack Food Co. | Lyttelton Coffee Company |
IndosLoveat | Wabi 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 |
ends