The Cross Creek Blues Club is an Incorporated Society established in 2005 for anyone who appreciates Blues or Blues related music (Bluegrass to jazz). Club meetings are held at the Tin Hut tavern on the first Wednesday of every month starting at 7.30 p.m. with music from our own members, followed by guest artists drawn from the remarkable pool of talent available in the Wellington region, and sometimes farther afield. Visitors are welcome.
Membership fees are $30 per year. Admission to club nights – members $2, non-members $5.
The club name commemorates the historic railway settlement of Cross Creek
, to the south of Featherston, that marked the beginning of a steep line of track known as the Rimutaka Incline. Built in 1878, the settlement was abandoned and dismantled in 1955 when the rail line to Wellington was re-routed through the Rimutaka tunnel. Cross Creek remains an important part of South Wairarapa’s history and relics of that time are displayed at the Fell Engine Museum, including the last example of the Fell engines that worked on the incline.
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