Free seminar and workshop for young blues musicians
Rotorua is once again hosting the Blues Festival over Queen's Birthday weekend. And there will be two opportunities for young students to gain blues guitar knowledge during the festival. (Photo: Rotorua Blues Festival headliner, Jimi Hocking)
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Blessing ceremony welcomes new rural fire appliances
21.05.13: Following extensive fundraising efforts and generous sponsorship from individuals and organisations, Rotorua District Council’s three rural volunteer fire forces has each had major new appliances added to their fleets. (Photo: Deputy principal rural fire officer, Richard Horn, said the rural volunteer fire force teams are “absolutely rapt” to have successfully secured new equipment)
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Rotorua mountain bike trails named among best on earth
20.05.17: Rotorua’s world-renowned mountain bike trails have won global praise as one of the eight top mountain biking destinations on earth, the only Southern Hemisphere place awarded such recognition. (Photo by Graeme Murray: Rotorua bike trials named among world’s best)
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Rotorua i-SITE among country’s top performing visitor information centres
19.05.13: Rotorua Visitor Centre & i-SITE has achieved a near perfect result in the latest Qualmark ‘mystery shopper’ assessment. (Photo: Manager Graham Brownrigg outside Rotorua Visitor Centre & i-SITE)
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Chinese visitors from Rotorua-Nanjing Town welcomed to NZ’s Rotorua
18.05.13: Forty eight residents of China’s Rotorua-Nanjing township were welcomed to Rotorua this week with an official powhiri at the RDC Civic Centre. (Rotorua Deputy Mayor Trevor Maxwell (background, centre) hosts a powhiri to welcome visitors from China’s Nanjing-Rotorua Town)
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