This year has been a bit of a write-off from many perspectives. But since we've now managed to crawl through till October, allow me to preview a couple of things coming up during the month.

The first is a slightly unusual mention, as I rarely list stuff happening on the night the paper comes out, but let's make an exception this week since the most excellent Katikati Folk Club has been having a hard time recently, continually rescheduling concerts and then having to cancel them again.

So if you're reading this on Friday (2 October) and fancy a folk fix, get yourself straight down to the Arts Junction in Katikati where you will find folk duo My Pennyworth, whose album I reviewed a year or so back.

They are Paul Hoggard and Penny Rowsell and I believe their planned KKFC concert has now been postponed twice, once from the first lockdown, once from last month. But they're clearly patient people and this Friday it's third time lucky when they’ll be joined by various special guests for a real celebration of live music. Things........

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