The Cowpokers

Foot-tappin' Onekaka Swamp Rock, World Famous in Golden Bay!

Golden Bay's finest local boys are rounding up and riding North to bring their unique brand of rock, blues and ska to the Wellington for the first time.

What if swamp rock wasn't born in the Louisiana, but in Takaka, you ask? What if Iggy Pop and the Stooges had been Marlborough dairy farmers? What if Hendrix had settled in a Tukurua art gallery selling homemade jewellery crafted from shells and bone?

The answer to all these questions and more can be found at a Cowpokers gig: a raw, barn-storming, rural-rock-and-roll sensation that 17 years of gigs have utterly failed to hone, polish, or refine.