Mountain Rock Music Festivals, held on a farm near Woodville and later moved to a site near Palmerston North, were widely celebrated Kiwi music events in New Zealand during the 1990s. The event was created and promoted by Paul Geange and Paul Campbell, a Palmerston North Musician and founder of the infamous El Clubbo and the Palmerston North Musician's Society. New Zealand's online encyclopaedia, Te Ara, notes that "There are regular jazz, folk, ethnic and country music awards and festivals, some of which have been in existence for decades. Large music festivals, for example Sweetwaters, Nambassa and The Big Day Out, have been staged periodically since the 1970s."

Event years

[Mana, on stage with Lead Vocalist Carl Perkins (Herbs

/House of Shem) and Spencer Fusimalohi (Herbs) Mountain Rock IV, 1995 | upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/2/28/MountainRock14.jpg]

Musicians

Mountain Rock Music Festival III:

Film and television

The Maori Radio network broadcast Mountain Rock III live on air. On site, video and sound was recorded in the barn. Also, an independent film-maker from Auckland shot many hours on video and amateur video footage was also shot.