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The Sun
Blenheim Marlborough
Wednesday February 9, 2011
NZ Post gripe Francis White is irked at the long queues...
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‘The Beer Maids’ (top from left) Loren Andrews, Michelle Graham, Paula Amsler, Lacy Rees and Hannah Foster.
‘Blues and Brews’ timing questioned
‘Fuggles’ up close Marlborough’s voice of motorsport Craig Douglas.
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Mark Stead
Riverlands Focus The Sun shines on business in Riverlands.
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Temperatures reached more than 34 degrees at the annual Blues, Brews & BBQs on Saturday. The ‘American Indians’ above took second place in the Fancy Dress competition. (Above from left) Danisa Bull, Savanna Adams, Emily Tibbs and front, Tara Beleski, and Bonnie Fenwick.
By Damian George Blues, Brews & BBQs organiser Graeme Boon says he will look at shifting the date of next year’s festival to prevent it clashing with other popular events. Mr Boon says the idea is one of many which will be discussed as part of a debrief in a month’s time, following dwindling crowd numbers in recent years. “There’s a few things we can look at, one of those is the timing,” he says. “It’s a matter of getting a spot that’s not competing with other things. We’ve always clashed with the sevens in Wellington which hasn’t done us a lot of good either ‘cause there’s a lot of similarities with people who
attend that event and ours.” He says organsiers will also discuss the overall content and format of the show, with a particular focus on attracting some bigger bands. “But there’s a whole lot of increased costs that comes with that obviously. Until we’ve gone through it all, we can’t really say. “We did have a good content of blues this year - half played blues and half didn’t, which is about the perfect split.” He says this weekend’s lower turnout, which was about 600 less than last year, could also be attributed to issues outside the organisers’ control. “One of the key factors this year is severe economic stress
with lots of people - it doesn’t matter who they are, and that has an affect. “We’re pretty pleased with how this year went, considering the reduced numbers and how the behaviour was. We got good feedback from people that attended and stall holders, and people were pretty happy.” He says there were a few people that misbehaved, but that was bound to happen in an event of that size involving alcohol. On the plus side, there were no glass-related incidents and glass was well received by participants, he says. SELLOUT: This weekend we have the Wine festival. See page 5 for story.
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