Greenlee is an online retailer and The Coro Classic is the first music festival she\u2019s had a stall at – it won\u2019t be her last.<\/p>\n
Greenlee studied politics but now makes a living selling online.<\/p>\n
\u201cAt the moment, the big thing for festivals is scarves – people wear them as bandanas, to add a bit of interest, or wrapped around themselves.<\/p>\n
\u201cI think it started in Australia from all the dust, and it\u2019s become a trend.\u201d <\/p>\n
Genuine tattoos were also booked out by those choosing to permanently ink themselves at The Coro Classic.<\/p>\n
The DJ stage kicked off with DJ Sunray, Lucy, and progressed to blistering sets on sundown by Camrin Watson, Ross From Friends and Disrupta, before Issey Cross sang live to a tent too packed to move.<\/p>\n
Designer thrift scarves were selling out at Anissa Greenlee\u2019s stall. Photo \/ Alison Smith<\/p>\n
New this year was the Kitchen Disco stage, serving up house and pop (the musical kind) with a happy, smaller crowd vibe.<\/p>\n
Three stages in total featured artists from New Zealand, Australia, the UK and elsewhere.<\/p>\n
They included main stage acts Scribe, The Black Seeds, No Cigar and UK garage collective Kurupt FM – who may have started out in a UK mockumentary but take their fame and fan base seriously at festivals.<\/p>\n
After delivering a set that at one point got the entire audience to crouch down or show they were racist, Kurupt FM came out to greet and offer selfies with fans.<\/p>\n
New this year at the Coro Classic was the Kitchen Disco stage, serving up house and pop. Photo \/ Alison Smith<\/p>\n
Allan \u2018Seapa\u2019 Mustafa dutifully autographed one woman, who had scrounged around and offered him a coloured pencil and bottle of tabasco sauce with which to sign her skin.<\/p>\n
Co-organiser Kurt Barker, of Nexgen Touring, confirmed one medical response that involved a rescue helicopter, and thanked the on-site medical and emergency services teams for their support.<\/p>\n
\u201cAttendee safety is always our top priority and we\u2019re pleased with how all safety procedures worked.<\/p>\n
\u201cOverall, we\u2019re very happy with how it went and before increasing numbers, there are a few site and infrastructure improvements we\u2019ll fine-tune to ensure the safety and experience remain as we expect.\u201d<\/p>\n
Alison Smith is a former editor of the Hauraki-Coromandel Post. She is also a Thames-Coromandel District councillor.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Greenlee is an online retailer and The Coro Classic is the first music festival she\u2019s had a stall…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":219821,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[2246,54104,95,132439,18459,8834,15223,11405,118499,4915,2516,132437,40671,9517,126404,27508,6093,132440,36661,111,43,139,69,5270,22056,132438,3175,31774,102],"class_list":["post-219820","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-zealand","tag-2246","tag-54104","tag-and","tag-basslines","tag-beats","tag-big","tag-callout","tag-cattle","tag-chopper","tag-classic","tag-concern","tag-coro","tag-draw","tag-fans","tag-festivalgoers","tag-fields","tag-little","tag-matarangi","tag-nearby","tag-new-zealand","tag-news","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-one","tag-outskirts","tag-pulsated","tag-rural","tag-spirited","tag-with"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/219820","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=219820"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/219820\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/219821"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=219820"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=219820"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=219820"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}