Meet the 81-year-old great-grandmother gearing up to play Rhythm and Vines

Meet the 81-year-old great-grandmother gearing up to play Rhythm and Vines

Molly Pardoe is the oldest artist in Rhythm and Vines history, set to perform her first live DJ set at the three-day Gisborne festival later this month. She talks to Alex Casey about changing perceptions around older women.   Prior to this year, Molly Pardoe’s only interaction with Rhythm and Vines had been warmly welcoming her bedraggled grandchildren into her Gisborne home whenever the four-day festival was hit by wild weather. “They would com…