Sleeping under the stars, performing folk songs and hitchhiking across the South Island will be life for Dunedin folk musician Flora Knight for the next month.
Knight will join American-born, Australian-based ‘‘bush poet’’ performer Archer on a South-Island-wide tour throughout February, performing in Port Chalmers on Sunday afternoon.
The pair previously toured the country in 2015, when Archer joined the Lonesome Pine Specials trio of Knight and Christchurch-based folk musicians Ben Woolley and Hanna Harding.
Knight said their 13-show tour in 23 days would have the pair sleeping in ‘‘swags’’ under the stars all across the South Island, travelling from Oamaru to Dunedin then down to Southland, through Central Otago, up the West Coast and on to Nelson and Golden Bay before wrapping up the tour in Christchurch.
They would also travel solely by catching rides between towns, a means of transport between shows Knight was not too worried about.
‘‘I think hitchhiking is pretty well supported in New Zealand.’’
There was also the added benefit that any people that picked up the pair on the road would be able to come to a show ‘‘on us,’’ Knight said.
Both Archer and Knight would perform solo sets of their oldtime, folk, blues, country and fiddle music before joining for a few duets.
- Flora Knight and Archer will play at The Gallery in Port Chalmers from 4-6pm on Sunday. Tickets can be bought from undertheradar.co.nz or at the door.
