Te Anau’s Fiordland Community Centre will come alive with hundreds of people, live music, good food and New Zealand beer on Saturday (January 30).

This is the first time the beer, wine, cider and food festival has come to Te Anau.

For the last four years, the Hop’n’Vine festival has been running as a successful operation in Invercargill, but this year the organisers felt it was time to take the summer beer festival on tour and visit Te Anau. 

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“We budgeted for around 800 [tickets] – but anything over 600 [tickets] we’re very pleased with,” Hop’n’Vine co-organiser Chris Montgomery said.

There’s already been close to 700 tickets sold to Hop’n’Vine Te Anau.

Montgomery admitted that it ccould nerve-wracking planning large scale events for the first time in new towns, especially with the potential threat of COVID-19, but said it was important to the team that they helped bring some stimulus back into the town that had been hit hard by the economic fallout of COVID-19.

“Te Anau seemed like a logical step… [we] saw the impact that COVID-19 [had] had on local businesses and we wanted to do something to give back.”

He said if the Te Anau event was as much of a success as they hoped, then – “Covid willing” – Montgomery would consider adding more Hop’n’Vine festivals later in the year in Southland.

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For now, Montgomery encouraged Southlanders to come to the show and relax and unwind. 

He said the day was all about kicking back in the sun and enjoying great beer in the company of good friends and live music. 

There is a full stage line-up of local artists on the day, with the music following an easy-listening chilled vibe before ramping up in the evening with artists Sea Beast and Triple Shot. 

Hop’n’Vine Te Anau runs form 12pm to 7pm on Saturday (January 30) in the Fiordland Community Centre. 

Tickets are available HERE.