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Sunshine for Waitangi
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Otago Daily Times Online News
‘Good get’: Sunshine Sound System, including Simon Hendl, left, and Kyle Popham, are performing in the Queenstown Gardens on Waitangi DaySunshine Sound System’s returning to its roots on Friday.
As part of Queenstown’s community Waitangi Day celebration, organised by Mana Tāhuna Charitable Trust in partnership with Queenstown’s council and the Ministry for Culture and Heritage, the legendary Kiwi roots and RnB group is headlining the musical lineup at Te Kararo Queenstown Gardens.
Sunshine Sound System formed in the Whakatipu in 2000 when DJ Downtown Brown (Simon Hendl) and PDigsss (Paora Apera) got together for a jam, and kept going.
Mana Tāhuna tumu whakarae (chief executive) Mike Rewi (Ngāi Tahu) pays tribute to the Webster whānau for securing them.
Rewi says the event, being organised for the fourth year by Mana Tāhuna, is about ‘‘bringing it back to what the day’s all about’’.