Wet weather predictions have seen the Tauranga Waterfront Festival, originally planned for tomorrow, postponed.

The third annual festival, organised by Tauranga City Council, will now go ahead a day later on Sunday, September 21, from 12pm-7pm.

Adrian De Villiers will perform tricks on his pole ski at Sunday's festival. Photo: Tracy Hardy.

A TCC spokesperson says the festival will otherwise run as planned with plenty of activities – on and off the water – including arts, crafts, children's stalls and live entertainment.

Event manager Penny Mitropoulos says the first festival three years ago celebrated the waterfront's new look and pulled 4500 people – this year it's all about showcasing 'everything Tauranga”.

'We've got a huge array of different artists – a few that come from outside Tauranga but most from the city and are local – to entertain us.”

Entertainment includes ‘X Factor' contestant Jessie Matthews' band Daughters of Ally, Rhythmic Chicks, Crooners and U4RIA.

Tauranga's Urban Dance will perform three times at a space beside the Spruce Up village, kindly supplied the Spruce Up company.

A new feature is the Kids Market – with more than 20 stalls manned by children, some of them selling things they've made.

'This is really cool because it keeps the markets family-focused – the children will be mostly primary and intermediate age kids,” says Penny.

Singer songwriter Megan Sidwell will perform, as will musicians Alice Sea and Aaron Saxon.

More FM's Bel and Brendon are hosting the event with the More FM Old School Summer Road Trip Caravan and the More FM Kidzone.

Penny says this has a photo booth, so families can capture their moment at the festival and take home as a memento.

For the younger ones there's a puppet show just after 12pm, Hairy Maclary storytelling between 12pm-2pm, plus an amusements area at the northern carpark for those 13 and under, with a cup and saucer ride, children's swinging chairs and a dragon wagon kids roller-coaster at low prices.

Artists by creative entertainers Highly Flammable will roam the crowds as a Mirror Man and Mirror Woman – 'they don't just stand there, they move in and around the crowd” – and a bouncy clowns pair will be doing tumbling acts in clown suits 'and integrating the children into it”.

There's also trolley derby displays, food vendors offering mostly healthy cuisine, and the Cargo Shed with crafts, arts and music.

Upcoming events will be promoted too – with a boat display previewing the Tauranga Boat Expo 2014 and garden and art installations signalling the New Zealand Garden and Art Festival in November.

'We're just putting together everything that's coming up and supporting them too, but also making a big showcase of everything that is Tauranga,” says Penny.

Another team of entertainers will move in at darkness to offer a display of fire tricks, and the day's festivities wrap up with a harbour fireworks finale sponsored by Downer at 7pm.

The Strand will be closed from Devonport Rd to Harrington St from 6am Sunday until 9.30pm.

To learn more visit Tauranga City Council's Facebook page ‘Hey Tauranga'.