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Popular covers band White Chapel Jak will kick off their “Return of the Jak – Here’s to us Nu Zuland!” tour with two concerts at the Leigh Sawmill Café next month. They will follow up with another concert at the Warkworth Town Hall on September 5.
The band is renowned for putting an acoustic, funk-groove spin on upbeat songs that everyone knows and loves.
Its 13-stop North Island tour will perform at venues between Whangarei and Napier before wrapping up in November.
The band see the tour as something of a post-lockdown celebration.
“We’re so excited to celebrate what New Zealand, as a team of five million, have achieved during lockdown,” guitarist Bonnie Hurunui says.
“Like many others, our livelihoods – through our ability to entertain and perform – was taken away during lockdown. Now we’re back, and we couldn’t be more excited and ready to raise the roof and celebrate. Here’s to us, New Zealand.”
White Chapel Jak claimed the RNZ 2018 Battle of the Covers Band title and have performed more than 600 gigs around New Zealand since 2014, including Soundsplash 2020 and the Bay of Islands ‘iT’ festival.
The four-piece acoustic band are lead singer and rhythm guitarist Bonnie Hurunui, guitarist Nathan Boston, drums/percussion Dean Tinning and double bassist Michael White, who is legally blind.
Whitechapel Jak performs at the Leigh Sawmill Café on Friday, August 14, at 7.30pm, and on Saturday, August 15, at 7pm. The band performs at the Warkworth Town Hall on Saturday, September 5, at 6pm. For tickets visit, facebook.com/tours/714680319372503/
Ticket Giveaway
Mahurangi Matters has a double pass to giveaway for the Leigh and Warkworth White Chapel Jak shows. To go in the draw, email your contact details to editor@localmatters.co.nz. Put “White Chapel Jak” in the subject line and indicate which show you would prefer to see. Entries close August 10.
