WHY TALL POPPIES?
TALL POPPIES is Auckland’s top-tier 5-piece covers band, specialising in delivering dynamic live music for high-end corporate events, conferences, balls, awards, gala dinners, launches and large-scale private functions such as milestone birthdays like 18ths, 21st, 40th, 50th, and 60ths, weddings and parties. We play an impressive repertoire of crowd favorites from the 70s, 80s, 90s, and 00s and latest Top 40, including Rock, Pop, Reggae, Rock n Roll and Disco. With over 20 years of experience, our band of elite professionals is known for energising audiences at top Auckland venues. Our specialty is making the party happen with the best Song List featuring both male and female vocalists, backed by a talented lineup of guitar, bass, keys, and drums; so we are a genuine live band with the energy that brings - no singing along to backing tracks for us. TALL POPPIES is renowned amongst covers bands, for being extremely professional and reliable due to our huge corporate experience both in the music industry and in the business world. We have never let a client down. The owners are Rob Woodley ONZM who is also the GM of Blues Rugby Charitable Trust and Janine McKenna-Woodley who is a school teacher and was previously a top aerobics instructor and dancer! Whether it's a black-tie gala or a major corporate event, TALL POPPIES delivers a premium live music experience that leaves a lasting impression! Read our fantastic references, for all the proof you need!
NEW YEAR'S EVE CONCERTS
If you were in Mt Maunganui for the Millennium New Year’s Eve celebration, you would have seen us on the huge outdoor stage, playing to a crowd of over 30 000! We were then invited back there for New Year’s Eve 2001, playing to 35 000! The crowd was so huge that the infamous Mt Maunganui riot happened when TALL POPPIES were instructed to stop playing because of crowd concerns! We also played twice for the Whangamata New Year’s Eve concerts prior to that. Still being as popular as ever, TALL POPPIES were invited back for the Mt Maunganui New Year’s Eve concert as recently as 2008!
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