Live Music

Friday 24th March  8pm - late Tickets $20 Here Alongside Winegum Records, Christchurch chorus-drenched indie pop-rock group Pretty Stooked have announced their wide-reaching debut EP Day Today alongside a nationwide tour, bringing yet another facet of Ōtautahi’s diverse alternative music scene to the fore. Day Today comes from fruitful sessions at LOHO Studio with Josh Logan and Adam Hogan (Mel Parsons, Pieces of Molly) with a sharpened emotive focus on all-too-human heartbreaks and the discomfort of change faced by frontman…

Thursday 2nd Feb 7.30pm Jazz Club Jam Night $0 pre registered Jammers $5 Jazz Club Members $10 Jazz Club Freinds  Jammers, pre-register via [email protected] for free entry! Let us know 3 songs you want to showcase, and the key (We have a list of songs to help you out) Come to play, listen & maybe dance. It's open to musicians & all who just love music. Have a beverage & connect with other jazz enthusiasts at our first NJC Club Night! Everyone…

Free Entry  Denny Allen is currently lead vocalist in "JukeJoint" - a popular Nelson blues band, but as a solo performer he is returning to his roots in the Hutt Valley pubs of the 1970's where he played drums and sang in covers bands. After moving to Nelson in 1987 he formed the hugely popular rock and roll band "Denny & The Jets". His solo act revisits these times with classic hits of the 60's & 70's that everyone can…

Friday 27th January 8pm - Late    Tickets $15 online @ https://www.bandaids.co.nz/online-ticketing $20 Door sales Nelson 's popular blues band led by Ivan Outram covering legendary artists from Chicago to the southern states such as Eric Clapton and the late Gary Moore and Stevie Ray Vaughn.

Friday 10th March 8pm - Late Tickets $20 Here  Black & Gold are the four piece band that keeps Christchurch on their feet all night long! They're in Nelson for one night only! All the classics from Britney Spears, Tina Turner, Elton John and Cyndi Lauper and so much more! There will be some spot prizes and a best dressed prize so make sure you come in your best outfit for this party! Get your tickets because this is a…

Friday 3rd March 8pm-9pm Tickets $30 @ Eventfinda https://www.eventfinda.co.nz/2023/ray-oleary-everything-funny-all-the-time-always/nelson New Zealand’s funniest deadpan comedian Ray O’Leary takes his brand-new comedy across the country. Ray O’Leary is serious about jokes. If his trademark suit and tie don’t tell you he means funny business, his critical acclaim and audience responses sure do. O’Leary’s sharp writing and signature delivery have had crowds across Aotearoa doubled over with laughter, whilst he barely moves a muscle. A regular comedian on Have You Been Paying Attention?…

Friday 10th February 8pm - Late Tickets $25 @ https://www.eventbrite.com/e/sassafras-bluegrass-band-the-boathouse-society-nelson-new-zealand-tickets-485354066077 Sassafras is based in the Foothills of the Blue Ridge Mountains of North Carolina. Sassafras is a bluegrass band who pays homage to the Bill Monroe and Flatt & Scruggs era, but also enjoys pushing the edge of progressive Newgrass music as well. Their repertoire includes a range of musical styles including Ole-time, Country, Folk, Western Swing and originals. Members are Wes Tuttle, Randy Gambill, Gray Tuttle & Zeb Gambill. Sassafras…

Friday 17th March 8pm - 10:30pm Tickets $20 Here The DeSotos hit the road for their 2023 Acoustic Routes Tour- an intimate, up close and personal acoustic tour of the upper South Island. The DeSotos will be featuring material from their two critically-acclaimed albums that featured heavily in the South & North TV series', plus Paul's new solo album 'Blue Horizon' released Oct 28th, 2022. The setlist will be rounded out with some of the band's personal favourites from the…

Friday 17th February 8pm - Late  Tickets $25 Here ARTS ON TOUR NEW ZEALAND PRESENTS: Music composed for harp, violin and cello is extraordinary and beautiful - the plucked harp strings are vibrant and brilliant, whilst the bowed violin and cello strings are sustained and sonorous. Named after the magnificent carved palm on Helen's harp with its golden huia bird on the soundboard, Nikau Harp Trio bring to life the glittering magical world of harp with strings. Nikau’s program opens…

Friday 3rd February 8pm -Late Ticktets $22 HERE Alan & Kristin Kelly are two founding members of the well known Irish powerhouse band the Barleyshakes and are excited to be performing at the Boathouse in Nelson as part of their 2023 tour. Together they bring you upbeat sounds of Ireland on sweet sensuous fiddle, and spirited guitar. Recipients of Queensland Music Award for World music and notably, Alan has recorded as a bodhran soloist on the Lord of the Rings soundtrack…