Bad weather on Sunday forced the finals of the Robbie Rocks contest indoors, to the Toitu Otrago Settlers Museum, in Dunedin.
Robbie Burns was a ''rock star' in 18th-century Scotland and his poems and songs are known around the world. Entrants in Robbie Rocks were asked to choose one of Burns’ songs and reinterpret it for a modern audience.
Judges Mike Moroney, Scott Muir and Liam McIlvanney said the standard of entries was high.
The winners were:
Youth section, $400 cash: Ryan Ruans Everyth!ng (Henry Ruan and Nicole Samuels) from Logan Park High School singing Ae Fond Kiss. -
Open section, $400 cash: Malcolm Gordon and Andrew Harray singing Open the Door to Me
Audience favourite: $50 cash: won by Queen Abe of the Scots (Alice Houston-Page, Abe Baillie, Caitlin Bathgate, Hamish O'Malley-King) from Logan Park High School singing Coming Through the Rye,
The other finalists were:
YOUTH SECTION
Th_ (Thunderscore), from Kavanagh College singing Jamie Come Try Me
Sam Leaper & Stephanie Post, from John McGlashan College and St Hilda's Collegiate, singing Auld Lang Syne.
White Buckets on the Roof (Finn McKinlay, Lucas Dubyk, Albert Baeumer, Colin Macandrew, Arnie Tregonning), from Logan Park High School, singing Auld Lang Syne.
Cryptic (Lalu Hartmann, Hamish Phillips, Sam Spiers, Sam Bissenden), from Bayfield High School, singing My Luve is Like a Red Red Rose.
OPEN
The Mentalist Collective (Robert Milne, Danie Erickson, Scott Campbell) singing My Luve is Like a Red Red Rose.
Dr Marigaux (Phil Davison and John McMillan) singing Up in the Morning Early (no for me).
Eden Smith & Friends singing Ye Jacobites By Name.
Jean Barkman singing Afton Water.
Muckle Maun Laddies (Bill Gilmore, Tony Baldock, Lloyd Napper, Jack Gilmore) singing Had I a Cave/Now Spring Has Clad the Grove in Green.
Jack Brosnahan singing Ae Fond Kiss.
