Archive for May, 2008

New Zealand Music Month is about showcasing Kiwi tunes and celebrating home-grown talent on our airwaves and stages. Each May, Music Month highlights and promotes local music and since it began in 2001, sales of New Zealand music have more than doubled and airtime for New Zealand music on commercial radio stations has also doubled.

This month www.nzhistory.net.nz harks back to Aotearoa’s musical roots with 31 reasons to love New Zealand music.

Whether we’re punching above our weight, cutting down tall poppies or mumbling the words to ‘God Defend New Zealand’, stories such as those of Kiwi Rock Royalty Split Enz or our 61-year-old New Zealand Symphony Orchestra are a musical history to be proud of.

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