Mike Garner is a musician living and working in Aotearoa – New Zealand. He grew up listening to and playing blues in England and moved to New Zealand in 1988. He lives in Papamoa Beach, in the Bay of Plenty, by the Pacific Ocean.
Mike has played in New Zealand, England, Australia, Italy, Germany and Japan. He toured New Caledonia in August 2007, The Cook Islands in 2008 and at the Himalayan Blues Festival, Kathmandu in 2009. He played in San Francisco in 2012. Mike toured Japan in 2014 and 2015, with harmonica player, Neil Billington, and they return in October 2016.
“Part of the fun of going to New Zealand for me is getting to hear Mike Garner. He’s one of my favorites.” Doug MacLeod