Riwaka Rugby Club Summer Concerts

Following the success of this year’s Magnificent Marahau Artisan Market, local artists will once again congregate in the field next to Marahau’s R&R Kayaks for a market on Friday, 3 January 2020 from 10am-3pm.

Motueka designer and creator of Vickies Originals Nelson, Vickie Davis, is the driving force behind the market and has hand-selected all stallholders with the emphasis on boutique, high end and top quality goods made locally.

“A magical day is promised at this all ages free event. There is shelter, seating and music to enjoy while indulging in some of the many delicious choices of food stalls,” says Vickie.

Among the special guests this year are two Marahau artists, David Hollidge and Mark Rayner. David, a well-known local artist is famous for his exquisite hand-made rocking chairs and other woodcraft while Mark, a local wood carver has worked with the Arts Unique for the past 24 years.

They’ll be joined by a number of other talented artists including Kanuka Glen Art, Richard van Dijk,

Kingdom of Klah, Doveriver furniture, Found & Carved, Moutere Lavendar Company, Travelling Lite, Iya Leigh Boutique, Somya Ayurveda, Knitwitnz, Dixie Device Ceramics and Hub Cap Guitars.

The variety of food on offer includes Kiwi Kai for Seafood lovers, Saed’s Falafel, Bacon Station, salads and healthy wraps from Mermaids Beach House, Nutty Dlites and Keto needs covered by Sweet not Sugar.

Melanie Drewery, Kate Cowan and Heavens to Betsy are among this market’s new artists. This year’s market saw Vickie generously donate 50% of the stallholder’s fees to the Marahau ratepayers association to contribute toward the costs of cleaning up after Cyclone Gita and next year will once again boost the association’s coffers to help clean up the Wetlands.

“It’s a lovely way to give back to Marahau, it’s such a beautiful place and it’s super exciting to have all these fantastic artisans together in one place,” says Vickie.

“We’re looking forward to offering our quality goods.”

The Riwaka Rugby Football Club has been going since 1884. Since the beginning the Club has always focused on its main agenda –providing rugby for the community. The RRFC is a non-forprofit organisation that has a strong junior programme and senior teams. The Club have a wide range of members including the RSE workers. The RRFC is lucky enough to have members on the committee whose previous generations have been involved in the Club since its beginning.

The Riwaka Rugby Club is also very lucky to have a fulltime trainer for our rugby development. By having someone in this role the development of rugby at our club and in our region has significantly strengthened and is highly soughtafter.

This year the RRFC have been lucky enough to secure two concerts over the summer. These concerts are held on the Riwaka Rugby Club grounds by volunteers. On December, 28, Drax Project will be playing and on December, 31 Shihad, Salmonella Dub Sound System and Stellar* will be playing for New Year’s

Eve.

The concerts for the Club are about providing the local community and summer holiday makers with fantastic entertainment but also for the Club it is about fundraising. The money raised from these events go directly back into helping the Club such as paying the day to day bills and most importantly helping our junior rugby programme and our senior teams to continue to grow and strengthen as they represent our area in the upcoming season.

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Audience folk depart the Dyke’s woolshed in Lower Moutere after the annual ‘Carols by Lamplight’ on Sunday, 8 December.

Those in attendance enjoyed the Motueka Brass Band and children from Ngatimoti’s St James Church along with the ‘Sisterhood’ quartet.

“It was absolutely delightful, just so lovely, I really found it a wonderful evening and am so glad I went along,” says visitor, Betty Beaumont.