Local and national favourites White Chapel Jak are raring to get back to doing what they do best: getting people dancing along to their funky live performances. 

The Kiwi cover band will begin their post-lockdown tour in August, starting off back where it all began, at the Leigh Sawmill Cafe, on August 14th and 15th, and the Warkworth Hall on September 5th.

To celebrate the work that the New Zealand team of five million has been doing to keep Covid under control, “White Chapel Jak wanted to express our aroha to the amazing essential services workers who kept working through lockdown and are doing the mahi in our ‘new normal’,” guitarist Nathan Boston says.

To say thanks to the essential workers who keep everything running smoothly over this tough period, the band are giving away five double passes to essential workers for each of their shows. If you know someone deserving, you can nominate them via White Chapel Jak’s Facebook page, here.

The tour will consist of 16 live shows over 11 New Zealand cities.

Lead singer Bonnie Hurunui says “Playing live music and spreading joy were taken away at lockdown. Now, thankful and grateful like the rest of New Zealand, we’re back, and couldn’t be more excited and ready to raise the roof and celebrate - celebrate life, celebrate what Kiwis have achieved and what it means to be ‘us’. Here’s to kindness and unity, here’s to us New Zealand!”

Local Dates:

· Leigh - Leigh Sawmill Café, August 14 & 15

· Warkworth – Warkworth Hall, September 5

· Mangawhai – Mangawhai Tavern, September 26