Wairere Iti - Festival Bookers Moderator

May 7, 2019

Wairere Iti

Wairere Iti has been involved in New Zealand Music for over 30 years. As Co-founder of Auckland based booking agency Grafiti Entertainment he has toured bands extensively throughout Europe, USA, Australia and New Zealand and has worked as tour manager for some of New Zealand top acts.

Currently, Wairere is the operations manager for the Soundsplash festival in Raglan and also runs his tech startup called Akudos, a cloud-based awards management platform which is used by the Vodafone New Zealand Music Awards and the Apra Silver Scroll Awards.

April 30, 2019

Grace Leota

Festival Bookers

Hamish Pinkham - Co-founder / Director, Rhythm & Vines

April 30, 2019

Grace Leota

Festival Bookers

Hamish is the co-founder / director of the hugely successful Rhythm and Vines New Years Eve festival. Currently based in Auckland, Hamish is passionate about the development of the music events and tourism industry in Aotearoa.

April 30, 2019

Grace Leota

Festival Bookers

Gerry Paul - Coastella

April 30, 2019

Grace Leota

Festival Bookers

Gerry is the music programmer for Aotearoa’s largest street festival CupaDupa, the promoter for Coastella and has recently founded the first national Irish Festival “NZ Irish Fest”.

April 16, 2019

Grace Leota

Festival Bookers

Gavin Downie - Music In Parks

April 16, 2019

Grace Leota

Festival Bookers

With over 20 years in the local and international music industry, Gavin is now the lead Event Organiser for Auckland Council events Music in Parks - a series of 25 free music events across the Auckland region.

April 16, 2019

Grace Leota

Festival Bookers

Rachel Turney - Co-director, Homegrown Events

April 16, 2019

Grace Leota

Festival Bookers

Rachel is the Co-Director of Homegrown Events, the company that runs the annual Jim Beam Homegrown NZ Music Festival - now in it’s 12th year attracting over 23k attendees with over 45 bands and DJ’s performing across five stages on the Wellington waterfront.