{"id":424125,"date":"2026-01-19T22:19:10","date_gmt":"2026-01-19T22:19:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/424125\/"},"modified":"2026-01-19T22:19:10","modified_gmt":"2026-01-19T22:19:10","slug":"hamilton-nrl-all-stars-stan-walker-to-perform-at-fmg-stadium-waikato","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/424125\/","title":{"rendered":"Hamilton NRL All Stars: Stan Walker to perform at FMG Stadium Waikato"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ycPbyrajIUrF\" style=\"display:none\">\u201cI\u2019m so proud and excited to be part of this year\u2019s Harvey Norman All Stars,\u201d Walker said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ycPbyrajIUrF\" style=\"display:none\">\u201cThis event is a beautiful celebration of Indigenous culture and I can\u2019t wait to share some songs and experience the event with the fans.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"ycPbyrajIUrF\" style=\"display:none\">Harvey Norman All Stars is the NRL\u2019s annual celebration of M\u0101ori and Indigenous culture, featuring some of the NRL and NRLW\u2019s most exciting stars as well as showcasing the game\u2019s rising talent.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ycPbyrajIUrF\" style=\"display:none\">The upcoming event in Hamilton includes clashes between the men\u2019s and women\u2019s M\u0101ori and Indigenous All Stars teams, along with touch football.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ycPbyrajIUrF\" style=\"display:none\">Ahead of the matches, there will be a week-long programme of activities for players and the local community.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ycPbyrajIUrF\" style=\"display:none\">The Hamilton event will only be the second time that the All Stars battle has touched down in New Zealand.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ycPbyrajIUrF\" style=\"display:none\">The first time was in 2023, when the event was held in Rotorua.<\/p>\n<p><img  alt=\"NRL players Harata Butler, Gracie Kemp, and Charnze Nicoll-Klokstad recently visited Hamilton. Photo \/ Malisha Kumar \" class=\"article-media__image responsively-lazy\" data-test-ui=\"article-media__image\"\/>NRL players Harata Butler, Gracie Kemp, and Charnze Nicoll-Klokstad recently visited Hamilton. Photo \/ Malisha Kumar <\/p>\n<p class=\"ycPbyrajIUrF\" style=\"display:none\">The All Stars series being held in Hamilton comes after a record-breaking year for women\u2019s rugby league in the city, with FMG Stadium Waikato attracting some of the largest NRLW crowds in 2025.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ycPbyrajIUrF\" style=\"display:none\">Those numbers contributed to Hamilton securing two Warriors NRLW home games again in July and August.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ycPbyrajIUrF\" style=\"display:none\">Tickets for Harvey Norman All Stars are available at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nrl.com\/tickets\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.nrl.com\/tickets\">nrl.com\/tickets<\/a>, starting at $19 for adults and $59 for families.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ycPbyrajIUrF\" style=\"display:none\">The event will start with the Touch Football M\u0101ori All Stars v Indigenous All Stars at 2.25pm, followed by Aotearoa New Zealand M\u0101ori Wahine Toa All Stars v Australian Indigenous Women\u2019s at 3.30pm.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ycPbyrajIUrF\" style=\"display:none\">Aotearoa NZ M\u0101ori Tane All Stars v Men\u2019s Australian Indigenous Men\u2019s All-Stars will kick off at 5.45pm.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u201cI\u2019m so proud and excited to be part of this year\u2019s Harvey Norman All Stars,\u201d Walker said. \u201cThis&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":424126,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[568],"tags":[3265,1929,64,63,41266,193503,222959,133387,887,8117,113489,25723,761,762,158,222957,85,8824,55987,4031,1974,319,16484,9829,222958],"class_list":["post-424125","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nrl","tag-all","tag-at","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-different","tag-doubleheader","tag-february","tag-fmg","tag-hamilton","tag-just","tag-kind","tag-matches","tag-national-rugby-league","tag-nationalrugbyleague","tag-nrl","tag-perform","tag-sports","tag-stadium","tag-stan","tag-star","tag-stars","tag-to","tag-waikato","tag-walker","tag-welcomed"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/424125","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=424125"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/424125\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/424126"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=424125"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=424125"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=424125"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}