Week 2 | Wiki Tua 2 2024

Welcome to Week 2 of  TE MARAMA PUORO O AOTEAROA 2024 - NZ Music Month -  with AMPLIFYING AOTEAROA | PAOROTIA AOTEAROA the theme across this year’s event, shining a light on those who are the heartbeat of our nation’s music scene and celebrating everyone who makes our incredible music and helps amplify tunes from across Aotearoa.

This week is an absolutely stacked newsletter with info from all across the country. Read on for news about TEE ME UP! to win printed band merch, a special promotion for schools with Harvey Norman, next week's Legendary NZ Music Month Quiz, plus a whole host of events, releases and dates right around Aotearoa.

These pānui are released weekly during May - if you'd like something included, please email info@nzmusic.org.nz with the subject Weekly Newsletter or fill in the submission form here.

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TEE ME UP!

Last week we were stoked to unveil TEE ME UP! - our merch design competition thanks to our generous sponsors at AS Colour and Karousel Screenprinting.We're calling all Aotearoa kaipuoro (musicians) and their creative friends to submit an original merch design promoting their music or band for the chance to WIN 50 t-shirts, printed and delivered! The shirts will be supplied by AS Colour: Aotearoa's favourite local merch hub for quality. The design will be printed by the legends at Karousel Screenprinting, who are celebrating 25 years of boutique printing.Submissions for TEE ME UP! are open now with entries closing 23 May at 11:59PM. All designs will be presented to a judging panel with the winner announced the following week. For submissions as well as the full terms and conditions, please check out the TEE ME UP! page here.

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MUSICHELPS Legendary NZ Music Month Pub Quiz

Next week, MusicHelps is bringing their Legendary NZ Music Month Pub Quiz back for 2024 on Tuesday 14th May at the Tuning Fork.

This year all of the proceeds will go towards supporting the mahi of both MusicHelps and the Raukatauri Music Therapy Centre.  Get the old team together, or create a new team.  If there are only a few of you and you’d like us to see if MusicHelps can put you with like-minded others to form a new legendary team – just let them know. There will also be some great auction items to check out on the night.

There's only a few tables left for the legendary event: To secure yours click here.

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WHAT'S ON THIS WEEK

With this week’s focus on Amplifying Music Education we’ve got some amazing Mentors out working in schools across Aotearoa through the Musicians Mentoring in Schools Programme - a scheme run in around sixty schools annually by the NZ Music Commission. Keria Paterson (KMTP) is at Western Springs High School in Auckland, Annie Crummer is at Gisborne Girls High School and Lisa Tomlins is in the Bay of Plenty at Katikati College. Last week saw Tali at Garin College in Nelson and Jenny Mitchell in Wellington at Taita College with some amazing reports coming back on the students and their work!

The legendary Wellington music venue Meow is celebrating NZ Music Month and fundraising for MusicHelps with an amazing line-up for Live At Meow This Saturday where Wiri Donna, Reid, Eli Superflyy, Daisy Grae and Hearth will all be gracing the stage. There’s lots more info on the Meow Instagram here, and tickets are available at Moshtix with an excellent staggered pricing model to pay what you can. While you are on the Meow Insta, be sure to check out the fab interview video series they are running for NZMM - Meow Meets NZ Music.

This weekend, Geneva AM celebrates the release of her single Pikipiki with an activation in partnership with the good folk at Pickpath. ‘Miki Rapu Waiata: Pikipiki’ is like a musical treasure-hunt where you collect pieces of music hidden around the Wintergardens at Auckland Domain. It will be made available via Pickpath from 1:00pm Saturday 11 May on phone browsers or downloaded via the landing page here -  and you can join Geneva herself for the launch of this experience at the Winter Gardens on Saturday! ‘Miki Rapu Waiata: Pikipiki’ will continue throughout May until the end of Te Marama Puoro o Aotearoa.

Alongside all the amazing events happening in Manawatū this May, Feilding and Marton are hosting free, family friendly NZ Music Month festivals for their community this weekend. Local acts from Manawatū and Rangitīkei will be taking to the stage, with up to 25 members of the Feilding Brass kicking off the festivities at Marton’s event from 11am on Saturday 11 May with a programme that runs through the afternoon. The NZMM party continues on Sunday in Feilding’s Manchester Square which begins at 11.30am with singer-songwriter Chrissy Kerr opening the show. Read more over at Stuff.co.nz.

Another event on this very busy Saturday! Featherston Booktown Karukatea Festival are hosting quite the music spectacular! On 11 May, Anzac Hall will host legendary songwriters Delaney Davidson and Barry Saunders to share their songwriting wisdoms with Lucy Cooper. As storytellers who use music as their medium, and coming together as collaborators has taken them in new and exciting directions. Word Gets Around: Songwriting with Delaney Davidson And Barry Saunders is from  3:30PM – 4:30PM at the Featherston Anzac Hall – find more info and tickets here.

TVNZ+ continues to bring the excellent entertainment for Te Marama Puoro o Aotearoa! Alongside the award winning concert film Tiki Taane In Session with the CSO, all four episodes of Troy Kingi's Desert Hikoi are streaming now on TVNZ+. The four mini-doc episodes follow Troy as he takes a spiritual journey to California's Joshua Tree National Park, in search of creative inspiration from this epic desert environment and its local people.

Otago University presents its first NZ Music Month Concert next Wednesday 15 May at Marama Hall, Marama Hall Leith Walk from 1:00pm. Students and staff will be performing works composed by Otago University’s Mozart Fellow for 2024 Dr Simon Eastwood. Tickets are available via Humantix here.

Christchurch’s stunning venue The Piano is hosting a series of one-hour ‘coffee concerts’ at 11:00 am on Sundays to celebrate Te Marama Puoro o Aotearoa. This weekend’s special Mothers Day performance is singer-songwriter and multi instrumentalist Nick Dow, whose single ‘Daughter And Her Dad’ is out this week. More info and tickets are on Eventfinda here.

Also for Mothers Day, reggae heavyweight Swiss has delivered a heartfelt tribute with ‘MUM’, a cover of the original song by NZ legend Prince Tui Teka - hear it on Spotify here. Swiss says “When I first heard it, it resonated with me right away, with the lyrics talking about being away from his mother and how he is longing to see her again. Like Tui Teka, I too have had to sacrifice being away from my own mother, living my life as a musician ... it was only right to cover this classic and dedicate it to my mother for all she has done for me”.

Plains FM, Christchurch’s community access media radio station, has long championed the voices of its communities. In celebration of NZMM, the station has dedicated two prime hour slots at 8 am every Wednesday and Thursday to exclusively feature music from Ōtautahi bands and musicians. Listen online here.

Radio Hauraki has teamed with Rockshop for NZ Music Month with a month-long campaign that celebrates kiwis making music. In a world first, Radio Hauraki are giving away an air guitar to EVERY SINGLE NEW ZEALANDER! TXT GUITAR to 3483 to claim your free air guitar. PLUS, you'll also be in the draw for a real one powered by Rockshop. Find out more here.

Finally - next Wednesday from 12:00pm at the Toi Ohomai Tokoroa Campus, all are invited to come and enjoy some free kai while supporting their ākonga playing some great tunes as part of Te Marama Puoro o Aotearoa.

Also this week … For those lucky enough to have snapped up tickets before it sold out, the iconic Topp Twins are performing with special guest Ruby Solly in Auckland Museum's stunning Te Ao Mārama South Atrium … Em & Me and Mr Roberelli are holding a NZ Music Month concert for kids on Saturday at the Dunedin City Library from 2pm ... PR whizzes Lil Sister have published a special NZMM Zine full of their fav tracks, venues, tips and more that you can check out here … For more excellent reading, the Timaru Courier is running a series on local music legends and South Canterbury home-grown talent, starting with Geraldine’s finest - Jordan Luck …The Rockshop are taking the opportunity this month to look back at some moments in NZ music history - check out the story on True Bliss here … Rolling Stone ANZ are running a special weekly NZMM feature asking artists from Aotearoa to talk about their favourite NZ act. Check out the selections so far this month from Chores and Muroki … Auckland Live is hosting Tiny Rave, a dance party for kids in the Concert Chamber on Saturday morning as part of their huge NZMM programme … Coast FM have a Kiwi Classic Music Quiz on their site - including the scores so far of  their on-air team! … You can catch up on what happened at the Hawkes Bay NZ Music Industry Gala kicking off NZ Music Month in Te Matau-a-Māui last week on the Hawkes Bay App here and over at BayBuzz. … and so much more!

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Harvey Norman Schools Kura Competition

Long-time supporters of NZ Music Month | Te Marama Puoro o Aotearoa - Harvey Norman NZ are back with another brilliant competition to amplify music education where schools could WIN one of four awesome prize packs. Teachers can enter by sending a video link to a live NZ music performance from their school to nzmm@nzmusic.org.nz. The video could be of a class, a band,  a kapa haka group or even the whole assembly - as longs as it's a performance of music from Aotearoa by students.

The winners are selected randomly and announced every Friday in May from the end of this week and the school's video will being posted to the NZ Music Month Facebook page.

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NEW RELEASES THIS WEEK

• Ardon England - That’s Camp - Debut EP      
• Aro - Māhoe me Patatē - Single + Video      
• Aunty Rae - STOP CALLING ME - Single        
• Benjamin Mack - Real Fale Feels feat EDY - Single    
• C. Zukey - Stone Fruut - Debut Album          
• Church & AP - WTF Remix feat Don Mclennon and deadforest - Single      
• Daily J - Happy Slides - Single
• Devilskin - Surfacing - EP      
• EDY and Hamo Dell - Damaged - Single        
• FINDMYKEYS - Be - Single      
• Georgia Lines - Wayside - Single        
• Grace Clarke - Don't Rain On Me - Single      
• Harbour Board - The Strays - Album
• Holly Arrowsmith - Neon Bright - Single      
• Imani-J - See Thru Time feat Tali - Single      
• IPSY - Look at You - Single    
• Isla Noon - Her - Single          
• JARNA - Replace - Single        
• Jason Parker - All Of You - Single      
• Judi Cranston - I Can't Wriggle My Nose - Single      
• Just One Fix - Submit or Death - EP  
• LIPS - BADA - Single

• LOU'ANA - daydreams (voodoo version) - Single
• Lukan Raisey - OUTSIDE (feat. Rizvàn) - Single
• Luna Shadows - nudes - Single
• maff - Battle - Soundtrack (to a film which doesn't exist)
• Matt Joe Gow & Kerryn Fields - No Trace - Video
• Monk Seals - You Can Fly - Single
• Ms Mia - Going For The Kill - Single + Video
• MŪMAI - Tomfoolery - EP
• Nick Dow - Daughter And Her Dad - Single
• Rosie Teese - Overboard - Single
• Ruby Coley - Take Me Back - Single
• Sad Boxer - We Wanna Be The Ones - Single
• Sahota Vision - Where Are You - Single
• Summer Thieves - Caviar Candles - single
• Swidt - Crew - Single
• Swidt - Drippin - Remastered Single
• SYSYI - Now Or Never - Single
• Tess Goodwin – Wordless Ways - Single
• Tess Liautaud - Here Go The Lovers - Single
• The Narcs - No Turning Back - Remaster Re-Release of the classic 1983 EP
• Toni Thom - Reality on Repeat - Single
• Turkey The Bird - Lady Who? - Single
• Voodoo Bloo - I Don't Want This Scene to End - Single

GIGS & SHOWS

Around the Motu

• 10 May - NZ Music Month Celebration 1 with Bush Lawyer, DALIAH and FiveOne3 - at The Stomach
• 10 May - Amiria Grenell - Album Release Tour at Space Academy, Christchurch
• 10 May - Auckland Live at Lunch Line-up with Julien Dyne - 12:15pm in the foyer of The Civic
• 10 May - Hannah Everingham at Lodge Theatre in Geraldine
• 10 May - Battle Chorus - a social sing-along experience at the Sir Howard Morrison Centre, Rotorua
• 11 May - Live At Len Lye Taranaki Retreat Fundraiser with Evan Rhys and Stereo Streets, Green Bathing and Izzy Bublitz at the Len Lye Cinema, New Plymouth
• 11 May - Ant Tarrant Album Release Show at Ponsonby Social Club, Auckland
• 11 May - Live At Meow - MusicHelps Fundraiser in Wellington
• 11 May - Duncan Harwood and Happy Hearse plus Dave Alley & Rosina at the Jam Factory, Tauranga
• 11 May - Moonbase Record Collective Fundraising Space Clash at Darkroom, Christchurch
• 11 May - AwareWolves and The Grand Bazaar Present: A Grand Awakening at Nivara Lounge, Hamilton
• 12 May - Adam Hattaway Solo Show at Two Thumb Brewing on Colombo, Christchurch
• 14 May - Back Again - Auckland Uni Pop Students at The Wine Cellar
• 14 May - Six60 The Grassroots Tour continues at Stewart Island Community Centre, Oban
• For the full gig guide, go to nzmusicmonth.co.nz/the-gig-guide

International

• 08/05/2024     Fazerdaze (solo show) at Genghis Cohen in Los Angeles
• 08/05/2024     Earth Tongue at Loppen in Copenhagen, Denmark
• 09/05/2024     L.A.B at The Black Sheep in Colorado Springs
• 09/05/2024     Earth Tongue at Musikens Hus in Gothenburg
• 10/05/2024     PARK RD at Freo Social in Melbourne
• 10/05/2024     L.A.B at Mission Ballroom in Denver, Colorado
• 10/05/2024     Earth Tongue at Desertfest in Oslo, Norway
• 10/05/2024     Unknown Mortal Orchestra at Kilby Block Party Day 1 in Salt Lake City, Utah
• 10/05/2024     Fazerdaze at Kilby Block Party Day 2 in Salt Lake City, Utah
• 11/05/2024    L.A.B at The Depot in Salt Lake City, Utah
• 11/05/2024     Earth Tongue at Bar Brooklyn in Stockholm, Sweden
• 11/05/2024     Chaos in the CBD at Smoke & Mirrors in Chicago
• 13/05/2024     L.A.B at The Peppermint Club in West Hollywood, California
• 13/05/2024     Earth Tongue at Werk 2 at Leipzig in Germany
• 14/05/2024     L.A.B at Belly Up in Solana Beach, California
• 14/05/2024     Earth Tongue at Die Trompete in Bochum, Germany

All Month Long

• Thursday, Friday, Saturdays - Auckland Live, FromThePit exhibition
• Thursday, Friday, Saturdays - Auckland Live, Ka Mua Ka Muri
• Saturdays - Take It To The Streets, Kingsland, Auckland
• Events Weekly from Auckland Live - check out the full Auckland Live NZ Music Month programme here!

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TE MARAMA PUORO O AOTEAROA is run by the NZ Music Commission, with support from APRA AMCOS, Creative New Zealand, Independent Music NZ, the Māori Music Industry Coalition, MusicHelps, the Music Managers Forum, Music Producers Guild NZ Aotearoa, NZ On Air, OneMusic, Recorded Music NZ, Save Our Venues, SoundCheck Aotearoa, SOUNZ and Te Māngai Pāho. The purpose of TE MARAMA PUORO O AOTEAROA is to celebrate music from New Zealand, and the people who make it.

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