Sunday Groove features Hot Tub at Lava Glass

19 Feb

**Lava Glass Sculpture garden is the ideal place for a Sunday Groove.**

Lava Glass owner Christine Robb is looking forward to having her favourite local band play in the Lava Glass Sculpture Garden – not that she’s at all biased.

Sunday Groove with Hot Tub on Sunday, March 2 is billed as a relaxing afternoon of cool music in a garden of national significance.

The soul funk band will be steering its set toward the more relaxed end of their repertoire, said front man Donovan Bixley, to complement Lynden Over’s distinctive sculptures.

“Though the odd funky number might get thrown in just to make sure people are awake – there is a pond in the garden you know, and we wouldn’t want anyone falling asleep and rolling in.”

The garden’s mini amphitheatre has been used successfully in the past for a bands or events, such as weddings and presentations, Robb said, including a Hot Tub performance in 2014 after it was opened by then Prime Minister John Key.

“Every now and then, one of our customers will even book it for a mini-concert so their own family can perform to each other. It’s good to see it being used.”

The Sunday Groove idea came from chatting with Bixley, a longtime friend, about staging a chill out afternoon of music the day after Ironman New Zealand 2025, in the intimate setting of the amphitheatre.

“Not that either of us are competing,” she laughed.

“But we’d love to see people come along with a bring-your-own picnic, or the licensed café is open, and enjoy it.”

Bookings for the 2-4pm Sunday Groove concert at Lava Glass on State Highway 5 at Wairakei can be made on Trybooking, via the Lava Glass website, and with door sales also available on the day.

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