{"id":2489854,"date":"2026-07-06T07:19:21","date_gmt":"2026-07-06T07:19:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2489854"},"modified":"2026-07-06T07:19:21","modified_gmt":"2026-07-06T07:19:21","slug":"new-zealand-festival-confirms-return-after-4-year-hiatus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/new-zealand-festival-confirms-return-after-4-year-hiatus\/","title":{"rendered":"New Zealand Festival Confirms Return After 4-Year Hiatus"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>It\u2019s not all doom and gloom on the Aotearoa New Zealand live music front: Tora Bombora is returning in 2027.<\/p>\n<p>Organisers of the boutique music festival today confirmed its return after a four-year hiatus.<\/p>\n<p>Tora Bombora will make its long-awaited comeback next year, bringing \u201clive music, community, and conscious connection\u201d back to the coastline of Tora, Wairarapa.<\/p>\n<p>The festival is also returning bigger than ever next year, expanding its capacity to 2,000 attendees \u201cwhile remaining firmly committed to the intimate community-led spirit\u201d that made it so popular in the first place.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAfter four years away, bringing Tora Bombora back feels incredibly special. The world \u2014 and our little corner of Aotearoa \u2014 has changed a lot since we last gathered on the coast,\u201d says festival founder Louis Murphy-Harris.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe pause gave me time to travel, learn, grow, and fall back in love with the things that made Tora special in the first place. Now feels like the right time to reconnect through music, nature, and community.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere is a whakatauk\u012b that feels particularly fitting: \u2018An\u014d ko te marama kua ngaro, kua ara an\u014d\u2019 \u2014 \u2018like the moon that disappears and rises again.\u2019 Some things aren\u2019t gone forever. Sometimes they simply wait for the right season to return,\u201d he adds.<\/p>\n<div class=\"observer-sub-form justify-content-center my-3 p-0 d-flex align-items-stretch bg-dark text-white\">\n<div class=\"observer-sub-form-info p-3\" style=\"justify-content: start;\">\n<h2 class=\"h5 mb-0 observer-title\">Love Music?<\/h2>\n<p class=\"observer-desc mb-2\"> Get your daily dose of everything happening in Australian\/New Zealand music and globally.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"spinner d-none\"> <\/div>\n<\/div>\n<blockquote class=\"instagram-media\" style=\"background: #FFF; border: 0; border-radius: 3px; box-shadow: 0 0 1px 0 rgba(0,0,0,0.5),0 1px 10px 0 rgba(0,0,0,0.15); margin: 1px; max-width: 540px; min-width: 326px; padding: 0; width: calc(100% - 2px);\" data-instgrm-captioned=\"\" data-instgrm-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/reel\/DaKGOMgoyGf\/?utm_source=ig_embed&amp;utm_campaign=loading\" data-instgrm-version=\"14\"\/>\n<p>In a <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nzherald.co.nz\/nz\/partying-with-a-conscience-carbon-positive-music-festival-comes-to-the-wairarapa\/255PYGDSFZLMHWTENZ2YZTAZTA\/\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">2020 interview with the <em>NZ Herald<\/em><\/a>, Harris talked about the festival\u2019s commitment to sustainability.<\/p>\n<div class=\"mt-11\">The lineup for the most recent edition of Tora Bombora in 2022 was impressive for a boutique festival, featuring Mildlife, Trinity Roots, Glass Beams, Mara TK, and many more, not to mention <em>Rolling Stone AU\/NZ<\/em> favourites like <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/au.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-lists\/80-best-new-zealand-albums-of-the-2020s-so-far-78646\/casual-healing-driftwood-album-78659\/\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Casual Healing<\/a> and <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/au.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-features\/wiri-donna-in-my-room-69000\/\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Wiri Donna<\/a>.<\/div>\n<p>According to a press release, the Tora Bombora 2027 lineup will be unveiled very soon.<\/p>\n<p>Tickets to the festival will go on sale on August 10th. Sign up for updates and pre-sales <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.torabombora.co.nz\/\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>. You can also follow the festival on Instagram <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/torabombora\/?hl=en\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><script>!function(f,b,e,v,n,t,s){if(f.fbq)return;n=f.fbq=function(){n.callMethod?n.callMethod.apply(n,arguments):n.queue.push(arguments)};if(!f._fbq)f._fbq=n;n.push=n;n.loaded=!0;n.version='2.0';n.queue=[];t=b.createElement(e);t.async=!0;t.src=v;s=b.getElementsByTagName(e)[0];s.parentNode.insertBefore(t,s)}(window,document,'script','https:\/\/connect.facebook.net\/en_US\/fbevents.js');fbq('init','243859349395737');fbq('track','PageView');fbq.disablePushState=true;<\/script><script async src=\"\/\/www.instagram.com\/embed.js\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p><em> \u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n<p><em> \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source au.rollingstone.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It\u2019s not all doom and gloom on the Aotearoa New Zealand live music front: Tora Bombora is returning in 2027. Organisers of the boutique music festival today confirmed its return after a four-year hiatus. Tora Bombora will make its long-awaited comeback next year, bringing \u201clive music, community, and conscious connection\u201d back to the coastline of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1962484,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[25179],"tags":[318070,490234,490235,320320,490236,490237,490238,490239],"class_list":["post-2489854","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-music","tag-new-zealand","tag-new-zealand-festival","tag-new-zealand-live-music","tag-new-zealand-music","tag-tora-bombora","tag-tora-bombora-2027","tag-tora-bombora-festival","tag-tora-bombora-return"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/Cardi-B-Drops-Jay-Z-Sampling-Single-Imaginary-Playerz.png","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2489854","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2489854"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2489854\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2489855,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2489854\/revisions\/2489855"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1962484"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2489854"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2489854"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2489854"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}