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Story: Folk, country and blues music

Auckland Folk Festival

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Folk musician

The annual Auckland Folk Festival features performers from New Zealand and overseas. The programme includes traditional folk music and dance from around the world, and styles range from blues and bluegrass to gospel and jazz. The musician pictured plays folk with a Celtic flavour.

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New Zealand Herald

Reference: 22 January 2001

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Chris Bourke, Folk, country and blues music – Folk music collection and revival, 1920s to 2010s, Te Ara – the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, https://teara.govt.nz/en/photograph/3556/folk-musician (accessed 4 June 2026).

Story by Chris Bourke, published 3 March 2009.