Love to see a poster for our gigs! It's been pretty busy since we returned from our trip 'down under'. It was amazing to be away, travelling, listening to a lot of music, which is always great inspiration on trips and playing lots of music too. Syd had his travelling guitar, a fab mini Taylor, with him, and as well as playing most days just to learn new things or work on different stuff we are trying out, we did a wee gig at Moons Bar in Dunedin. They hosted us the last time we were there,...

In the beautiful Waipu Old School Hall PlaidSong are currently in New Zealand, seeing friends and family and playing a little music as we go. We were hosted by Grant and Lorna in Waipu where Grant is part of the Waipu Acoustic and Folk Music Club. These folks meet regularly to play together, and we joined them for an evening to do a few songs together. It was amazing to perform once again in Waipu's fantastic historic venue of the Old School Hall, a beautiful building, built with the famous...

We wrote a song about the Scots who settled in Waipu, an amazing story - How Far Must I Roam see our music page PlaidSong are heading off to NZ once again and looking forward to meeting up with friends and family we met along the way last time we were out there. We had an amazing two month visit back in Dec 2023 into Jan 2024 and we are getting ready to travel once more! One of the places we are revisiting is Waipu - we wrote about this place in an earlier blog but it has great memories for...