Come and join us for an afternoon of music and dance with one of Australia’s most entertaining festival acts, the Hot Potato Band. The 11 piece brass and percussion ensemble are re-inventive of the traditional New Orleans brass band as a modern day dance machine and visual spectacle for all demographics with a strong sense of pride for their fun-loving, organic, and quirky musical nature. 

This show has been inspired by “Kanikani Katoa” events that used to happen in the old Kerikeri Memorial Hall and came out of community engagement works held recently at the Turner Centre, at which a community member remembers being an 8 year old and sprinkling talcum powder on the floor before the dancing started. This is is an event for all the community to bring along your whānau and have an afternoon of dance, music and fun! 

Tickets are being offered free of charge through the support of the Bay of Islands Whangaroa Community Board, the Australian High Commission and the Turner Centre. It is one of three free shows the band are performing, the other two being school shows.

Check out a performance of Hot Potato Band here: