Alan Downes, No Going Back

Alan was a long-time country boy. He spent his first decades living in the back blocks of Hawke’s Bay hearing stories, and telling a few of his own, when the locals got together for a country dance or a party.

When he picked up a guitar he started writing songs to capture the memories. Following the traditions of bluegrass, country and folk music, his songs are narratives on the ordinary and extraordinary people that don’t make the history books. This might be the show that changes your life!

Fringe in the ‘Stings is coming to shake up Hastings. In the first two weeks of October the beating heart of Heretaunga is given over to diverse quirky performance. There’s baroque and burlesque, cabaret and comedy, theatre and thrash metal, all at low prices making FitS a festival for everyone.