Whether it's Damon Harvey local Councillor or Damon Harvey from Attn! Marketing PR or Damon Harvey from your normal friend list, there's no denying he's one of Hawke’s Bay’s most visible and energetic champions of local business, local politics and local sport. An ultra-busy dad, a man who thrives on connecting people, a superfit sport-billy, a surfdog and an all-round infectiously excellent Hawke’s Bay person of influence – Harvey is someone we really should have had on the Bays Of Our Lives Podcast WAY earlier. Sozz babes.

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If aliens suddenly descended to earth, romped into your kitchen, held lasers to your face and said “Tell us who your live music leader is in five seconds or you will die in a puddle of ooze”. Then all anyone in Hawke’s Bay would need to say is “Calm down, it’s Roy Brown”. An incredibly talented pianist, vocalist and songwriter in his own right, Roy has single-handedly championed live performances for hundreds of local and international acts of almost every genre imaginable through his ownership of The Cabana in Napier. Hawke’s Bay wouldn’t have a live music scene if Roy weren’t opening those doors on Shakespeare Road every night of the week. And a 1, a 2, a 1, 2, 3, 4!

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If there’s anyone more Hawkesbaylien than Andrew Frame we’re yet to see it. Famous for his blog ‘NapierInFrame’, Andrew (who played a mean recorder in the Tamatea Primary School orchestra of 1988) is on a mission to tell Hawke’s Bay’s stories. And through the power of Twitter (it will always be Twitter Elon!) he also keeps corporate media and political baddies on their toes and highlights the quirky things about our region. Two Countdown-Woolworths supermarkets directly across the road from one another. Why? We HAD to find out!

Andrew also isn’t afraid to be brutally honest about his struggles, broken dreams and ambitions to make major life changes. We hear ya Andrew!

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