Pretties flyin with Moa

Anika Moa.
Anika Moa.
Queenstown favourite and platinum-record-selling artist Anika Moa has joined the ranks of Fly My Pretties for their Homeland Tour, which takes in the Lake Wanaka Centre on September 28 and the Queenstown Memorial Centre on September 29.

The Dreams in My Head star tours with two-time Tui-nominated West Coast folk singer-songwriter Mel Parsons; Maori TV presenter and Reggae All Star member Ria Hall; Kara Gordon an undiscovered talent who is in Europe working with Finlay Quaye and the Alabama 3; Louis McDonald singer and guitarist of Five Mile Town who just won the 2013 International Songwriting Competition; Mark Vanilau who is known for performing alongside the country's great names including Dave Dobbyn and is one third of `Vanilau, Maxwell, Baker', alongside Warren Maxwell and Louis Baker; and Shaun Blackwell an up-and-coming singer- guitarist in the capital's folk-country outfit John the Baptist.

Returning cast members include Barnaby Weir, Fly My Pretties founder and the Black Seeds front man; Ryan Prebble, singer-guitarist from Wellington blues band, the Nudge; drummer Jarney Murphy, bass player Mike Fabulous and keys player Nigel Patterson, all of the Black Seeds.

The Homeland Tour is promoted as Fly My Pretties harking back to their musical roots with a sound reminiscent of their first two live albums - Live at Bats and The Return Of, an unashamedly New Zealand sound.

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