Edgefest (New Zealand concert tour)
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Edgefest is an annual music festival in New Zealand
, run by The Edge radio station.
For the past 3 years Edgefest has taken place in March, and hosts New Zealand musical bands and artists, as well as some overseas acts. It is thought of as a younger, more commercial version of the Big Day Out
. It is normally sponsored by The Edge FM, Sounds music stores, C4 television, Coca Cola, and Vodafone
.
The concerts are held on weekends in March, in Auckland
(Supertop), Hamilton
(Mystery Creek Events Centre), Wellington
(Queens Wharf Events Centre) and Christchurch
(Westpac Events Centre).
New Zealand
New Zealand is an island country in the south-western Pacific Ocean comprising two main landmasses and numerous smaller islands. The country is situated some east of Australia across the Tasman Sea, and roughly south of the Pacific island nations of New Caledonia, Fiji, and Tonga...
, run by The Edge radio station.
For the past 3 years Edgefest has taken place in March, and hosts New Zealand musical bands and artists, as well as some overseas acts. It is thought of as a younger, more commercial version of the Big Day Out
Big Day Out
The Big Day Out is an annual music festival held in several cities in Australia and New Zealand in late January. It started in Sydney in 1992, spread to Adelaide, Melbourne and Perth by 1993, with the Gold Coast and Auckland joining in 1994...
. It is normally sponsored by The Edge FM, Sounds music stores, C4 television, Coca Cola, and Vodafone
Vodafone
Vodafone Group Plc is a global telecommunications company headquartered in London, United Kingdom. It is the world's largest mobile telecommunications company measured by revenues and the world's second-largest measured by subscribers , with around 341 million proportionate subscribers as of...
.
The concerts are held on weekends in March, in Auckland
Auckland
The Auckland metropolitan area , in the North Island of New Zealand, is the largest and most populous urban area in the country with residents, percent of the country's population. Auckland also has the largest Polynesian population of any city in the world...
(Supertop), Hamilton
Hamilton, New Zealand
Hamilton is the centre of New Zealand's fourth largest urban area, and Hamilton City is the country's fourth largest territorial authority. Hamilton is in the Waikato Region of the North Island, approximately south of Auckland...
(Mystery Creek Events Centre), Wellington
Wellington
Wellington is the capital city and third most populous urban area of New Zealand, although it is likely to have surpassed Christchurch due to the exodus following the Canterbury Earthquake. It is at the southwestern tip of the North Island, between Cook Strait and the Rimutaka Range...
(Queens Wharf Events Centre) and Christchurch
Christchurch
Christchurch is the largest city in the South Island of New Zealand, and the country's second-largest urban area after Auckland. It lies one third of the way down the South Island's east coast, just north of Banks Peninsula which itself, since 2006, lies within the formal limits of...
(Westpac Events Centre).
Edgefest 04
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Edgefest 05
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Edgefest 06
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