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Shayn 'Hurricane' Wills, 2012

Shayn 'Hurricane' Wills performs at the Cross Creek Blues Club in 2012. Throughout the 2000s the Cross Creek Blues Club met monthly at the Tin Hut, a pub at Tauherenīkau, just north of Featherston. Musicians from the Wairarapa and Wellington performed there regularly.

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Chris Bourke, Folk, country and blues music – The blues, Te Ara – the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, https://teara.govt.nz/en/interactive/43469/shayn-hurricane-wills-2012 (accessed 4 June 2026).

Story by Chris Bourke, published 2 December 2013.