Hamilton will host 2024 Summer Concert Tour
Hamilton is a great place to visit.”
Southgate and Murray don’t think Hamilton is taking something from Coromandel.
“We are mindful of the disappointment for Coromandel, but it’s only going to be a one-off for Hamilton,” Murray says.
Hamilton & Waikato Tourism chief executive Nicola Greenwell agrees and says the concert will not only benefit Hamilton, but the wider Waikato region.
“We look forward to welcoming visitors to our region and encouraging them to explore more of the Waikato while they are here.
“We know that Greenstone Entertainment
love the Coromandel and they look forward to returning the concert there in due course. In the meantime, this event is a great addition to the 2024 summer events calendar for the Waikato.”
The Taupō Summer Concert will be held on January 27 and the Gibbston Valley Winery Summer Concert will be held near Queenstown
on February 3.
Southgate and Murray say they will be among the people lining up for tickets.
Southgate says: “I’m very excited about this personally because I have been about three or four times to the concert in Taupō and once in Whitianga and it was always fabulous. They always get great acts.”
The artists for the 2024 concert tour have yet to be finalised, but the 2023 line-up included ZZ Top, Pat Benatar and Neil Giraldo, Stone Temple Pilots and The Angels.
Murray says he was keen to go along to this year’s concert to see ZZ Top but had to work.
“I have to check with my wife, but I definitely want to go [in 2024]. It will be the first time I will attend the concert, but I’m very familiar with what they are about. I’m interested to see the line-up for next year, that’s when it gets exciting.”
While Murray and Southgate both say Hamilton didn’t have any talks with Greenstone Entertainment about holding the event in Hamilton in the future, they say the council was always open to discussions.
“We are focused on hosting a great event and if the organisers turned around and said they’d make Hamilton an additional venue in the future, we’d say ‘Bring it on!’,” Southgate says.