Lyttelton
Hillside harbour town of working docks, colourful cottages and a famously rich live-music scene.
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This guide to Lyttelton, the harbour town over the hill from Christchurch, follows the folk and country musicians who turned a port of about three thousand people into a musical nursery. You'll meet a hard-working band called The Eastern, a wandering singer named Delaney Davidson, and a young local called Marlon Williams on the night a bar on Canterbury Street booked them both. Best heard looking down over the port, then walking to Canterbury Street.
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