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Summer Concert Tour Wraps Up In Whitianga
Summer Concert Tour Wraps Up In Whitianga
Today’s sold out Whitianga Summer
Concert wrapped up this year’s Summer Concert Tour when
15,000 concert goers added to the already sold out crowds at
Taupo and Queenstown, taking in the warm and sunny
conditions in the beautiful
Coromandel.
As concert
goers settled themselves in for an awesome summer’s
afternoon of music, New Zealand act White Chapel Jak got the
audience warmed up in preparation for the four international
acts that were to follow.
Nashville based Fairground Saints have impressed concert goers across the tour with their unique Californian style country repertoire.
With a
Coromandel sea breeze, Colin Hay of
Men At Work fame was next to take
to stage early afternoon and wowed concert goers with his
unmistakable hits , entertaining them with songs including
Who Can It Be Now , Down Under and
Be Good Johnny.
Next up was
Alanis Morissette. Touring New Zealand for
the first time in 20 years, she captured the audience
mid-afternoon with hits from her No. 1 selling album, Jagged
Little Pill, getting the crowd singing along to the likes of
You Oughta Know, Hand In My
Pocket and
Ironic.
The
Orchestra starring former members of
Electric Light Orchestra, performing their
incredible stable of ELO hits such as
Mr Blue Sky, Evil Woman, Livin’ Thing, Telephone
Line and Sweet Talkin’ Woman, promised to be an
amazing end to the tour and were sure to bring everyone to
their feet with their final song, Don’t Bring Me
Down .
Amanda Calvert, CEO
of Greenstone Entertainment says, “The Greenstone
Entertainment team and the artists had an amazing time
throughout this year’s Summer Concert Tour. We’re proud
to have been able to showcase this beautiful country to our
international guests. We want to say a huge thank you to the
48,000 fans that came along to one of the shows. It’s a
pleasure to see all the families, couples and groups of all
ages having such a great time, and we look to bringing a
whole new line up to our shores in
2019.”
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