Friday 30^th and Saturday 31^st March. The annual Titirangi music festival is on at the moment. During the festival there are lots of different acts performing through the day and evening in multiple venues such as the theatre, hardware cafe and RSA. On Friday evening Tanya had some friends over and cooked her amazing paella and sangria. I then joined them as we went up to the Titirangi RSA to watch The Nukes. The Nukes are a trio of ukulele players who write and sing their own songs. They were really good even though we didn’t have the best of seats. On Saturday I went to Sylvia Park shopping centre in South Auckland. It was a rough area but I got what I wanted. When I was coming back on the bus into Titirangi there were street performers outside the shops on a stage with lots of people dancing to the trumpets and singers. Sylvie had her friends over for an April fools party but Tanya and I went out to the theatre in the evening to see cabaret artist Victoria Girling-Butcher. She was lovely and some of her guests were brilliant. They played soft rock and she explained to her blind father what was going on in between songs. After the cabaret we heard the jazz artists at the hardware cafe so went to explore. We had some calamari and then tried to go downstairs to see the performers but were denied entry as we didn’t have tickets. They sounded very good though. On our way back home we looked into Titirangi hall as more performers were playing and even though we didn’t have tickets we were allowed to listen to the last song. The festival was so good and it was really nice just walking up the road and listening to local artists.