Mission Concert 2013 Barrie Gibb and Carol King -

Mission Concert 2013: Barry Gibb and Carole King

Friday, October 12th, 2012

The artist for next year’s 21st Mission Concert has been announced today.

Barry Gibb of Bee Gees fame will rock the Hawke’s Bay venue with support from Carole King.

The annual round of rumours as to who this year’s artist may have been also included Paul Simon, Paul McCartney and Bruce Springsteen.

The concert, which attracts up to 25,000 people to Napier’s Mission Estate winery, will be held on Saturday, February 23.

Tickets cost between $118 and $368 and can be purchased on the Mission Concert website or from Ticketek.

The concert has been held annually since 1993, and has featured Dionne Warwick, Ray Charles, Kenny Rodgers, Shirley Bassey, Julio Iglesias, The Beach Boys, The Doobie Brothers, The Hollies and Lulu, Engelbert Humperdinck, Sir Cliff Richard, John Farnham, B52s, Rod Stewart (twice), Tom Jones, Eric Clapton, the legends of Motown and Sting.

Continue Reading

Related Posts:

Additional reading

News category: News Shorts.

Tags: Mission Concert, Mission Estate

Analysis and Comment
- Archbishop of Canterbury: who next?
  
  When former Archbishop Rowan Williams announced in March 2012 that he was standing down as Archbishop of Canterbury, bookmakers started taking bets on his successor. Bishop John Sentamu, then Archbishop of York, was the clear favourite with the Bishops of Read more
- Religion in the workplace is tricky, but everyone loses when it becomes a taboo
  
  Since we spend so much of our lives at our jobs, it’s only natural that conversations with colleagues go beyond the work in front of us. People share interests and hobbies, family struggles, health concerns, and hopes or goals, from Read more
- Bernie Sanders says the left has lost the working class. Has it forgotten how to speak to them?
  
  Donald Trump was elected US president this week. Despite vastly outspending her opponent and drafting a galaxy of celebrities to her cause – Jennifer Lopez, Oprah Winfrey, Ricky Martin, Taylor Swift – Democratic candidate Kamala Harris lost the Electoral College, Read more
- Young men who see women as objects are more likely to be violent towards their partners: new research
  
  Intimate partner violence is a global scourge. One in four Australian women have experienced physical or sexual violence at the hands of an intimate partner. The perpetrators are overwhelmingly heterosexual men. Many factors contribute to this form of violence. Persistent Read more

Search CathNews

Search for:
CathNews
is free

First Name:

Last Name:

Email:
Great Reads