King Leo

King Leo is a veteran Blues musician who combines the classic sounds of Chicago, Texas and New Orleans with distinctive songwriting to bring high-intensity Blues to stages across New Zealand. His experience playing in the U.S. with a variety of Blues bands and such masters in the genre as Bo Diddley and Pinetop Perkins has enabled King Leo to craft an authentic, original and diverse Blues sound, great for listening and dancing.

Support from Stomping Nick. Stomping Nick Jackman is a one-man-band from Lyttelton who fuses primitive garage punk with blues and Appalachian folk. His sound has been described as “pounding rhythms, searing blasts of harmonica, and a gutsy roar that reach back decades beyond the last fad.”

12 Bar is the place to be for quality brews and live music. We host live music from Thursday to Saturday and you can grab some dinner from the Craft Eats food truck.