Friday SEPTEMBER 25
HOBNAIL:
FANTASTIC FOLK CELTIC COUNTRY FROM WELLINGTON!
Friday SEPTEMBER 25
HOBNAIL:
FANTASTIC FOLK
CELTIC COUNTRY
FROM WELLINGTON!
Hobnail formed in 1994 with little ambition beyond playing a few shows and drinking a few beers.
Thirty-two years later and they have travelled from Porirua to Pittsburgh, New Plymouth to Norfolk Island, Auckland to Amsterdam, Germany to Gore, the Canadian Prairies to the Canterbury Plains. They have released eight studio albums and a ‘Best Of’collection, played over 1,000 shows and made at least hundred trips across Cook Strait. There have been hundreds of flights, and somewhere north of 250,000 kilometres in the tour van.
Hobnail are three- time finalists at the New Zealand Music Awards. In 2025 Hobnail released their eightth album, ‘Three Part’, and toured throughout New Zealand. They don’t plan to slow down any time soon.
Their music has been described as a fusion of bluegrass, Celtic, folk and rock'n'roll. That description lists some of their influences, but doesn't do them justice. Their influences include jazz and poetry, and the songwriting reflects their personal experiences. They play music worth playing, sing lyrics worth hearing. And they play and sing with beauty and clarity.
‘Refreshingly down-to-earth and lovely with vocals so tightly knit they could be family.’
Mike Alexander,
New Zealand Herald
Hobnail are:
Rob Joass – vocals, guitar, mandola
Jo Moir – vocals, violin
Hamish Graham – vocals, guitars, percussion.
Hobnail formed in 1994 with little ambition beyond playing a few shows and drinking a few beers.
Thirty-two years later and they have travelled from Porirua to Pittsburgh, New Plymouth to Norfolk Island, Auckland to Amsterdam, Germany to Gore, the Canadian Prairies to the Canterbury Plains. They have released eight studio albums and a ‘Best Of’collection, played over 1,000 shows and made at least hundred trips across Cook Strait. There have been hundreds of flights, and somewhere north of 250,000 kilometres in the tour van.
Hobnail are three- time finalists at the New Zealand Music Awards. In 2025 Hobnail released their eightth album, ‘Three Part’, and toured throughout New Zealand. They don’t plan to slow down any time soon.
Their music has been described as a fusion of bluegrass, Celtic, folk and rock'n'roll. That description lists some of their influences, but doesn't do them justice. Their influences include jazz and poetry, and the songwriting reflects their personal experiences. They play music worth playing, sing lyrics worth hearing. And they play and sing with beauty and clarity.
‘Refreshingly down-to-earth and lovely with vocals so tightly knit they could be family.’
Mike Alexander New Zealand Herald
Hobnail are:
Rob Joass – vocals, guitar, mandola
Jo Moir – vocals, violin
Hamish Graham – vocals, guitars, percussion.
