Toots & Grooves
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Toots & Grooves was a New Zealand
ska
music festival
at Tatum Park, Horowhenua, starting on January 25, 2008 and lasting for 2 days. Over 35 bands played in the festival, including Battleska Galactica, The Managers, The WBC, The Offbeats, The Bones and Ska Child. This festival was planned to have been repeated in 2009.
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...
ska
Ska
Ska |Jamaican]] ) is a music genre that originated in Jamaica in the late 1950s, and was the precursor to rocksteady and reggae. Ska combined elements of Caribbean mento and calypso with American jazz and rhythm and blues...
music festival
Music festival
A music festival is a festival oriented towards music that is sometimes presented with a theme such as musical genre, nationality or locality of musicians, or holiday. They are commonly held outdoors, and are often inclusive of other attractions such as food and merchandise vending machines,...
at Tatum Park, Horowhenua, starting on January 25, 2008 and lasting for 2 days. Over 35 bands played in the festival, including Battleska Galactica, The Managers, The WBC, The Offbeats, The Bones and Ska Child. This festival was planned to have been repeated in 2009.