Lifeline Aotearoa is in need of financial help generous donors needed to fill a financial gap left after Gisborne's Rhythm and Vines got canned.
Lifeline operates a phone service for people who are in distress or suicidal.
For the past four years the music festival has donated part of its ticket sales to the charity.
This year's funding was expected to be about $30,000.
Lifeline's Helena de Fontenay talks to Lisa Owen.
