Jazz & Gospel

Featuring Mark Wilson on piano with the Queenstown Community Choir and supported by St Peter’s Church Choir.

Free Event

Arrowtown's Day of Jazz presents a progressive afternoon of all things jazz and blues. A very special day of gigs has been planned... so get ready, bring your toe tapping shoes and make the most of the long weekend! Check out Sunday's programme for details of each event!

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Michal Martyniuk Trio – Inspiring standards and original compositions that draw on characteristics of contemporary American and European jazz traditions. 

A wonderful way to enjoy your lazy Sunday... with an open-air concert on Arrowtown's Buckingham Green.

Free Event - Arrowtown Day of Jazz

NZ’s finest finger style guitarist will enthral with his mastery combining jazz, blues and folk arrangements with classical overtones. 

A favourite with the locals, The Sherwood is a 'community hotel' and Queenstown's newest event venue, hosting an expansive range of artists, and a bar which hosts an ever-changing selection of independent craft beers, fine natural wine, and rare spirits.

Free Event

Good Deep Blues. 

Dunedin based father/son acoustic blues duo with Leo and Oscar LaDell. The Fork and Tap Alehouse specialises in New Zealand craft beers, local wines and fabulous food! This will be a fun, energetic, and wonderful way to spend a lazy Sunday afternoon! 

Free Event - Arrowtown Day of Jazz

Laura Collins and the Back Porch Blues Band - acoustic ballads and blues with soulful vocals, sweet guitar solos, honky tonk style piano, warm upright bass and percussive drums. 

Free Event - Bookings Advised

A Resene 'Jazz meets Art' event with live art demonstration featuring Sofia Minson.

Led by Auckland’s trumpet diva, performing an entertaining showcase of swinging standards at one of Queenstown's best waterfront restaurants!

Free Event - Bookings Advised

One of NZ’s most exciting new bands deliver their unique instrumental sound and dynamic combination of electronic/hip-hop compositions

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Gifted local guitarist playing acoustic blues and laid back contemporary ballads

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Direct from Brisbane, burning blues standards at their absolute best. Frost's guitar bites like a bull terrier.... he shoots for an honest sound reliant only upon authentic tones and commanding fretwork! 

Established in 1866, the New Orleans is a true country pub and one of Arrowtown's icons famous for it's warm hospitality, entertainment and wonderful food!

Free Event - Arrowtown Day of Jazz

An entertaining repertoire of jazz standards from past to present.

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A guitar virtuoso with a unique voice and style of his own playing electric blues straight from the soul. Kara Gordon is called all sorts of things at his gigs, a Maori gypsy, the white Hendrix, a musical genius, part-man - part guitar, a mystic playing straight from his soul.

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Gibbston Valley Wines Degustation Series. Mark and Graham are a dynamic duo offering a unique instrumental blend of classical, blues and swing with lyrical vocals. Terra Mia, is Arrowtown's newest venue, with authentic Italian dishes prepared with the best local ingredients and created to complement Gibbston Valley's range of premium, award-winning and handcrafted Central Otago wines.

You'll be welcomed with bubbles on arrival followed by a traditional Italian home-cooked feast with accompanied wine & a generous helping of live jazz.

Take a journey with a vocally driven show featuring jazz in all its forms and features. An exciting show that features jazz hits from the 1920s to the present day with a journey from Swing, Bebop and Cool Jazz to Soul, Latin, and R&B. This will be jazz on the grandest of scales!

Exciting and innovative, covering ground from Free Jazz through all forms of modernism to straight ahead swing.

Blue Kanu uses colour, light and texture to give an authentic environment and create a stunning atmosphere. Blue Kanu beautifully blends Pacifica and Asian cooking styles together, resulting in healthy, fresh and exotic cultural soul food not seen in our region before.

Free Event. Bookings Advised. 

NZ’s favourite jazz ensemble will sure to entertain with their own electric blend of European-style jazz! They tour regularly throughout the world, appearing at major festivals in New Zealand, the UK, Europe, Australia and Asia. Now in their 25th year together, Nairobi Trio are more passionate about their music than ever. They have released a total of eight albums.

Free Event

Inspiring standards and original compositions that draw on characteristics of contemporary American and European jazz traditions.

Free Event - Bookings Advised

Explorations on an eclectic mix of jazz related songs, from the classics to Monk and Mitchell.

A favourite with the locals, The Sherwood is a 'community hotel' and Queenstown's newest event venue, hosting an expansive range of artists, and a bar which hosts an ever-changing selection of independent craft beers, fine natural wine, and rare spirits.

Free Event - Bookings Advised 

Your final night of the festival! Festival artists and our special guests will jam on stage into the night to celebrate the closing of the 2016 Queenstown JazzFest! 

Yoko-Zuna are one of NZ’s most exciting new bands deliver their unique instrumental sound and dynamic combination of electronic/hip-hop compositions. 

Free Event - Not to be missed!