PLEASE NOTE: This show was originally scheduled for September 2021 and is now cancelled. If you had tickets to those dates we'll be in touch with you directly. Read more about the impact of Alert Level changes here.
This year on our tour throughout Aotearoa we have experienced incredible, perhaps renewed, enthusiasm for songwriting and original music in the young musicians who have come to play. After what was a hard year for the music community in 2020, it's been heartwarming and encouraging to see such a high standard throughout the regions.
The Top 10 acts performing are:
Caxixi (Manurewa High School)
NF8 (Aorere College)
Sixth Sense (Gisborne Girls' High School)
Sounds of La Salle (De La Salle College)
Stay in it (Palmerston North Girls' High School)
TMB (Gisborne Boys' High School)
Tū Te Akitu (Rotorua Boys' High School)
Agape Tiatia (Alfriston College)
Lucy Summerfield (Motueka High School)
Nicole & Flo (Papatoetoe High School)
Support from:
Smokekfree - HPA
Ministry of Education
NZ Music Commission
The Rockshop
Sky City
ScatterGun weaves together poetry, movement and sound, with the voices of whānau from Tūhoe, in a celebration of the profound connection between the human body and te whenua ūkaipō (homeland).
Critically-acclaimed Mel Parsons will release her new album SABOTAGE on June 7 and has also announced a three-date New Zealand tour, before she heads to Canada for a northern hemisphere festival run.
Vismaya is a new work from highly acclaimed Mudra Dance Company and is guaranteed to be an exuberant programme of the classical Indian dance form of Bharata Natyam, accompanied by a live ensemble of esteemed South Indian musicians.
