Auckland Anniversary Weekend is filled with various exciting sun-soaked festivals to get your groove on — Gardens Music Festival, Laneway and That Weekend, just to name a few. But if you like your music lineups of the rockin' and rollin' folk variety you probably have one event on your calendar: Auckland Folk Festival, which is set to celebrate its 50th year this weekend, running from Friday, January 27 — Monday, January 30. Well, nineties kids we've got a drawcard that might just entice you to buy a ticket — seeing New Zealand icon Suzy Cato hit the stage. It's a childhood dream come true for any fellow fanatics of You and Me, Suzy's World or any of her other after-school bangers. The national treasure will be taking the stage on the kid's stage, but the young at heart are more than welcome — get ready to drown out the young ones with a rousing chorus of 'See Ya See Ya Later'. Joining her will be NZ songwriter Kath Bee, a songwriter whose work you'll probably know as the jams you belted out in school assembly. Think 'Individuality', 'Dad I Wanna be a Camel' — and her most recent hit 'E Tū Tāngata - Stand Together'. Also on the lineup? Two Tūī Best Folk Artist award finalists, T-Bone and Butter Wouldn't Melt are hitting the main stage on Sunday — before the winner is announced that arvo. Joining them is a lineup of international and local folk acts that will be taking the stage, including the three-part harmonies of Melbourne/Naarm-based Folk Bitch Trio, Edinburgh-based duo The Jellyman's Daughter, local Maori songwriter and storyteller Te Kaahu, US folk music star Sneaky Bone and Irish fiddle player Manus McGuire — as well as many more. There will be plenty of delicious food trucks and spots to relax in the showgrounds' lush surroundings. Those keen to make a weekend of it can camp onsite while locals can make a day of it — the showgrounds are only 15 minutes from Auckland's CBD after all. AUCKLAND FOLK FESTIVAL 2023 FULL LINEUP: Across the Great Divide Albi & The Wolves Alpaca Social Club Butter Wouldn't Melt Criu Ethno Aotearoa Folk Bitch Trio (AUS) Kerryn Fields Manus McGuire (IRE) Monty Bevins OrigiNZ Rough Town Sneaky Bones (USA) Songs from the Old Country Sweet Bottom (NZ/USA) T-Bone TE KAAHU Te Wehi Haka The Frank Burkitt Band The Jellyman's Daughter (SCO) TUi MAMAKi We Mavericks Wheel of Experience Auckland Folk Festival will run at the Kemeu Showgrounds from Friday, January 27 until Monday, January 30.