PHOTO: ODT FILESIt's not just the hottest large-scale music festival ticket around this New Year - it's the only ticket. The three-day Rhythm & Alps music festival starts today, going boldly into 2022 where most similar festivals in the country dare not to tread because of challenging terrain navigating the traffic light system, vaccine passports and the risk of community spread of Covid-19. Despite that, Rhythm & Alps is forging ahead and is the first live-music event to take place post-lockdown amid loosening of borders in New Zealand. Covid-19 put paid to other festivals including the event’s North Island sister festival Rhythm & Vines but life in the South Island at Orange under the traffic light system means the event can go ahead. "We’re again flying New Zealand’s biggest flag in the Cardrona Valley and that’s pretty cool."
Source: Otago Daily Times December 29, 2021 00:16 UTC