May 25, 2017
Pop up concert for Hundertwasser fundraiser
Some of the country’s top musicians with connections to Taitokerau will be performing tonight in Auckland to raise funds for Whangarei’s Hundertwasser Art Centre.
The ambitious project needs to have $16 million in the bank by June 30 for work to proceed.
Those giving their support include pop singers Tina Cross and Andrew McLennan, baritone Kawiti Waetford, Lexus Song Quest semi-finalist soprano Sophie Sparrow, singer-songwriters Vann Dizon and Dan Upritchard, and acapella group Resonate, who are competing in the Naked Choir television series.
Hinurewa Te Hau from Creative Northland says as well as providing a home for works by the late Austrian artist who made Northland his home, the centre will be a showcase for contemporary Maori art.
"The Wairau Maori Art Gallery is a key component to the delivery of the Hundertwasser project, becaude he had such a passion for Maori art. The gallery will probably have one of the largest and best collections of contemporary Maori art when it does open," she says.
The HART pop up variety concert is at The Raye Freedman Art Centre at Epsom Girls Grammar School in Gillies Ave, with doors opening at 6.
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