Drongos at the Beehive
PA Wellington The New York street band, The Drongos, left their instruments at home yesterday and took the lift to the top of the Beehive for a special meeting with one of their fans — and departed with a $5OOO cheque. A couple of the New Zealand band’s parents went along also to watch the Prime Minister, Mr Lange, present Richard Kennedy, Tony McMaster, and Jean McAllister with the certificates and cheque that make them New Zealand’s latest sporting and cultural am-
bassadors. All such ambassadors receive $5OOO in recognition of their work in promoting New Zealand. A fourth Drongo, Stan Mitchell, had returned to the United States.
Mr Lange caught up with the band last month when they played at a Wellington nightclub. The link, however, goes back further than that. “I first met these people when in Liberty Plaza in Wall Street in May, 1982,1 helped them set up from the back of some sort of van their gear and their sound,” Mr Lange said. Mr Lange said that sporting and cultural ambassadors were designed to be “across-the-board.”
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