Music In A Park

Bring a blanket, a picnic and enjoy the lovely sounds of:

Looking for Alaska
Amber Hayward
Smoked Paprika
and a mystery band!

About:
Looking for Alaska are no strangers to the Kirikiriroa music scene. Winning high praise from RNZ and critics for their beautiful songwriting.

The gorgeous voice of lead singer Amy Maynard has led to a whopping 37,000 Tik Tok followers, enchanted with her beautiful renditions of songs.

Their self tilted was nominated for best debut album at the NZ Taite music awards in 2017 and spent 12 weeks on the NZ album charts, peaking at number 9 on the NZ charts.

The album has received over 100,000 streams on Spotify and has seen Looking for Alaska complete 2 headline tours of NZ, tour internationally in Europe and Australia, at home at the Auckland Folk Festival, Whare Flat Folk Festival, TSB Festival of Lights and Hamilton Gardens Arts Festival.
The band most recent album recording took them to Neil Finn's Roundhead Studios.

Amber Hayward:
Amber Hayward wowed us at the NZ Music Commission Gig Starters seminar.
Her beautiful voice and songwriting spellbound the audience. Amber is one of our youth musicians for Music in a Park.
More to come on the other bands.

An Innovating Streets Hamilton, Kirikiriroa community event.

Many thanks to Hamilton City Council, Waka Kotahi and CBD Events.