Name: Whakaipo Lodge Winter Concert
Start: 2025-08-23T03:00:00+12:00
End: 2025-08-23T06:00:00+12:00
Location: Whakaipo Lodge

The Winter Concert is an intimate afternoon affair, with everyone gathered under the marquee in the Lodge gardens to enjoy Too Many Chiefs, icons of NZ music. Covered seating provided. Wear a warm coat or bring a blanket. Hot drinks/refreshments for sale. Parking onsite.
Too Many Chiefs: Wayne Mason, Andrew London and Rob Joass work regularly with their own respective groups but come together several times a year to collaborate, sharing songs and stories from the road. Their individual influences and performing styles range from blues and jazz to Americana-infused country and folk, often with an element of social commentary, personal reflection and occasional satire.
Patriarch of the group Wayne Mason has been instrumental (ha) in the formation and success of some of the most revered names in Kiwi music history. Rocking Horse, the Fourmyula and the Warratahs all owe their inception to Mason. He penned the song ‘Nature’, named by APRA in 2004 as ‘Best Kiwi Song of the Century’. Wayne is a member of the NZ Order of Merit and has just released a new album with his band The Superheaters.
A founder member of Hot Club Sandwich and The Cattlestops, now playing and recording mostly under his own name, Andrew London’s reputation stands on his satirical and comedic songs which lampoon many of New Zealand society’s obsessions, foibles and taboos. Songs like Let’s Talk About Me, Country’s Buggered and I Hugged My Mate have had audiences all over Australasia in stitches, and have contributed to a Correspondence School English Syllabus, several feature films, over 20 recorded albums and a stage musical.
Rob Joass is well known throughout New Zealand through his work with Hobnail, The Shot Band, and The Hard Core Troubadours. He writes compulsively, tours incessantly, teaches guitar and produces albums for other artists. His songs have been covered by artists both in NZ and abroad, and he is a three-time finalist at the NZ Music Awards. Rob has increasingly focused on solo work when not traveling with Hobnail or The Chiefs.
Too Many Chiefs’ collective repertoire represents a broad spectrum of songwriting styles, delivered with skill, enthusiasm and respect, albeit with a healthy dose of spontaneous banter and self-deprecating humour.