Music feature: Pixie Williams, her life and musical legacy

On the 2nd and 3rd of March the NZ Fringe Festival brings "The New Blue: A Portrait Of Pixie Williams" to Wellington's Hannah Playhouse. The show celebrates the life and work of our first homegrown popstar Pixie Williams. She is the voice behind the first record wholly produced in Aotearoa: The 1949 hit "Blue Smoke". Blue Smoke went on to become triple platinum, selling over 50,000 copies, catapulting Pixie to the top of the charts. The follow up "Let's Talk It Over" was also a hit... But despite that she never directly made a single cent from either recording. To talk us through the show, Pixie's work, and the legacy of Aotearoan artists she opened the door for, we speak to her nephew, Ian Taylor.