Sarau Festival

We need YOU to help make this festival even brighter and more successful than the first one. If you can walk, stand or sit, you can help! Traffic management, runners, gate attendants, setting up on the day, you name it, we need it! We also need lots of help on Saturday 31st from 11am and on Monday Feb...

The taste and versatility of blackcurrants will be a star attraction at the forthcoming Sarau Blackcurrant Festival.  The culinary resurgence of this super-food, already well known for its health and nutrition properties, can only add to the growing recognition that blackcurrants have an important role...

Following the success of the bike race at the 2008 Sarau Festival, another great mountain bike race/ride will start and finish at the Sarau Festival venue. NRG have put their hands up as sponsors of the race/ride, providing drinks for all riders.  Local farmers have come in behind this festival and...

Last year was so much fun with all of you entering your favourite blackcurrant creations that we are running another competition at this year’s Festival.  Enter into the fun and help the festival fly by bringing along exciting innovations, or just good old fashioned cooking! Or simply go to the recipe...

Registration for the 2009 Saraufestival has closed. If you arrived here looking for registration for 2010, please click here

Hi Everyone Just to let you all know that the 2009 Sarau Festival will be held at the Moutere Community Centre and Grounds on 1 February 2009 at 4pm.  More information on the website soon but mark your diary now! We will have registration forms for stalls and the cycle race on this website so watch...

Thousands of happy festival goers enjoyed a novel new event on the NZ wine and food calendar. NZ Blackcurrant industry Chairman and pioneering Upper Moutere Blackcurrant farmers told the crowd it will become an annual event and praised all those who took part but especially Event Director and Blackcurrant...

Hi Everyone, Here’s a small gallery of images from the Cycle Race. Feedback was very positive from riders, with some good tips and ideas to make it even better next year! If you have any photos you would like to add to the gallery, drop us an email.

Our Sarau Festival Photographer, Libby Bibby is responsible for many of the photographic images you see on the site that showcase what was a wonderful first Sarau Festival. Here are a duo of her collage images. Click the thumbnails for a show! Also see some of Libby’s images of the Moutere Bike...

Check out our archive of sumptuous blackcurrant recipes from the 2008 festival here. If you would like to contribute to the 2009 recipe portfolio, we would love to hear from you – please send your recipe ideas to jenny [at] saraufestival [dot] co [dot] nz Previous Recipes of the Week: Blackcurrant...