The soundtrack to your festival weekend?

New Zealand born singer/songwriter, Gin Wigmore, burst onto the scene after winning the International Songwriting Competition at 18 years old. She was the youngest and first unsigned artist to win the Grand Prize. Her first album release ‘Holy Smoke’ is currently certified 4x Platinum and her second album ‘Gravel & Wine’ 2x Platinum.

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Many of her best-known tracks (Kill Of The Night, Black Sheep, Man Like That, Girl Gang) have been featured in Film and TV shows around the world.

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Legacy / Career Highlights / Influences:

• Triple-platinum album “Holy Smoke”
• Winner of international songwriting competition
• Multiple NZMA winner
• Toured internationally throughout USA, Oceania, Europe
• A sync-music career which has seen her songs get placements in massive TV shows and collaboration with huge international brands

One of the most well-known and diverse artists and producers in Aotearoa (New Zealand), Tiki Taane (Ngāti Maniapoto / MacDuff) is considered to be an influential element in the pioneering of Aotearoa's bass culture, as well as the country's most prolific genre-bending experimentalist.

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First hitting the stage in 1991, Tiki went on to become the live engineer and eventually frontman of leading band Salmonella Dub in 1996, which catapulted Tiki to embark upon a life changing solo career that saw his music and production skills reach record breaking, award winning heights.

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Legacy / Career Highlights / Influences:

• Successful solo career with the double platinum album Past, Present, Future, and the number one single "Always on My Mind".
• Former lead singer & front man of multi-platinum & award winning act, ‘Salmonella Dub’
• Produced multi-platinum albums for artists like Six60 and Shapeshifter
• Performed with and released live album with Christchurch Symphony Orchestra
• Performed sold out auditorium shows throughout NZ
• Multiple NZMA winner

Bootleg Rascal are a Yugambeh/Gold Coast-based duo comprising of Carlos Lara and Jimmy Young.

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Taking cues from the likes of staple influences Gorillaz, Kid Cudi and Massive Attack, the group combine an eclectic mix of hip hop, reggae, indie-rock, dub and electronica; while simultaneously delivering on an intrinsically unique sound.

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Legacy / Career Highlights / Influences:

• Headline international tours throughout Europe, USA, Oceania
• Played some of Australia’s biggest festivals
• Played Triple J’s “Like A Version”
• Music influences blend elements of hip-hop, reggae, indie-rock, dub, and electronica, drawing inspiration from artists like Gorillaz, Kid Cudi, and Massive Attack

The Amber Temple is a theatrical performance that melds the original music of Julian Temple, and the contemporary dance of Amber Stephens, to tell captivating stories with dramatic sets, masks and costumes. The Amber Temple marries mysticism with gritty, ghoulish escapades of rogues and renegades. Vignettes of characters similar to you, similar to me, similar to someone you may have been or may one day become, all on the path towards the Amber Temple.

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Legacy/ Career Highlights/ Influences:

Career Highlights:

• Julian Temple:
  
  • Seven albums
  • Toured internationally to Mexico, USA, Australia
  • Write ups in nationally and internationally acclaimed press
• Amber Stephens:
  
  • Internationally acclaimed dancer + choreographer, studying at the Academy of Fine Arts in Austria
  • Creator of the ‘Spirit of Gold” painting exhibition, opened by Prime Minister John Key, and going on to tour over 80 locations across NZ.

New Zealand electronic duo CRÚDE, is made up of longtime collaborators Hendrix and Daniel. Both coming from vast backgrounds and influences in music, the duo brought their backgrounds together and formed a genre diverse project in 2021. Fusing elements of Electronic Pop, UK Garage and House, drawing inspiration from artists like Flume, Peking Duk and NOTD.

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They've built a reputation for their high energy and engaging live sets, performing at events like ORI 25 and releasing tracks that showcase their clean, energetic music. For Dunedin Craft Beer and Food Festival, they're bringing back all the electronic classics taking you back down memory lane.

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Legacy/ Career Highlights/ Influences:

• Inspiration from the likes of Flume, Peking Duk, NOTD

Francisca Griffin is perhaps best known for her bass playing, with a little guitar and vocals thrown in with pivotal Flying Nun band Look Blue Go Purple, which formed in 1983 and released 3 EPs (and were awarded the Taite Prize: IMNZ Classic Record in April 2024!) Francisca went on to play in Cyclops (2 singles and a CD album), and released her first solo work Some From the Sky on CD in 1998. Since 2012 Francisca has been playing live, and honing her unique sound in the studio.

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Legacy/ Career Highlights/ Influences:

• Bass player in formative Dunedin Sound act, Look Blue Go Purple.

Ōtepoti based art-rock quintet, IVY, have quickly cemented themselves as one of Dunedin’s most exciting acts of the current millennium. A strong sense of maturation is present when referencing IVY; it is obvious that everyone who is in the know, holds the band in the highest of regards, a pillar of mystical and transcendent force, coupled with the exuberant weight of youthful eagerness. IVY are the band everybody has their eyes on - the future is Art-Rock.

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Legacy/ Career Highlights/ Influences:

• Performed with the Dunedin Youth Orchestra
• Multiple festivals under the belt such as Snow Machine, Southern Sounds, OUSA Ori
• Debut album and NZ tour scheduled for September/October 2025
• Influences from the likes of Muse, Radiohead, Jeff Buckley