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New Zealand Music Month

New Zealand Music Month - Te Marama Puoro o Aotearoa

Christchurch City Libraries celebrates NZ Music Month during May every year. Find out more about this month-long celebration, and our music resources.

New Zealand Music Month blog posts

Blog Post

The hidden magic of Tūranga's score collection

Jessie chats with Jill about how she's used Tūranga's score collection, as well as providing some top tips for score searching.
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Blog Post

Enjoy traditional erhu music by a local Chinese musician

Hong explains the history behind traditional Chinese musical instrument, the erhu, ahead of a performance by Jeff Zhao at South Library.
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Music set on Canterbury Stories

NZ Music Month

About New Zealand Music Month

NZ Music Month was first celebrated in 2001. That May, only 6 per cent of album sales for the month were by New Zealand acts. Aiming to boost homegrown music, the initiative gave the media a chance to showcase local talent.

After five years of NZ Music Month, homegrown acts made up 29 per cent of albums sold, and there was similar increase in radio airplay. In the last couple of years, the month has started to become a truly national celebration, with the public encouraged to show their support through attending events, buying music and wearing the T-shirt.

NZ Music Month is a partnership between the NZ Music Commission and a number of other organisations including songwriters’ association APRA, Independent Music NZ, NZ On Air, the Radio Broadcasters Association and Recorded Music New Zealand.

Featured

Video

Ngā Kōrero Auaha Creative Stories: Jai Music & connections

Jai made his debut album which fuses his Indian heritage with hip hop in Tūranga's AV Studio, and he has connected with like-minded people.
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Ngā Kōrero Auaha – Creative Stories: King Cass

Rapper King Cass uses the Taupuni Oro/Ataata Audio/Video Studio at Tūranga to record and produce his motivational hip-hop music.
Online Resource

Rock's Backpages

Online archive of music journalism with over 50,000 articles. Includes articles, reviews, podcasts and interviews in both print and audio.

Music events at the library

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Māori Music

Māori music — Taonga Pūoro

Information and resources about Māori musical traditions.

Ngā Whāinga – Challenges – WAIATA

This school holidays, our Māori Services team bring you activities for tamariki. Today: Ngā Whāinga – Challenges - WAIATA

Ngā Whāinga – Challenges – TAONGA PUORO

This school holidays, our Māori Services team bring you activities for tamariki. Today: Ngā Whāinga – Challenges - TAONGA PUORO

Māori music — Taonga Pūoro

Information and resources about Māori musical traditions.

Ngā Whāinga – Challenges – WAIATA

This school holidays, our Māori Services team bring you activities for tamariki. Today: Ngā Whāinga – Challenges - WAIATA

Ngā Whāinga – Challenges – TAONGA PUORO

This school holidays, our Māori Services team bring you activities for tamariki. Today: Ngā Whāinga – Challenges - TAONGA PUORO

NZ Music

QUIZ: New Zealand Music Month 2022

May is New Zealand Music Month. Test your knowledge of the Ōtautahi music scene back in the day.

Highways and Byways of contemporary music in Aotearoa

Explore some of the interesting and enlightening paths contemporary pūoro has taken in Aotearoa.

Ideal Home Noise - Vera Ellen: WORD Christchurch 2024

"Music is how I say the things I really want to say". Vera Ellen & Fazerdaze talk about making music, songwriting, & Vera plays some songs.

Kommi me ana Tipua: WORD Christchurch 2024

Malcolm: "This performance was a study in controlled refinement, with The Piano's excellent acoustics rendering the music in fine detail".

QUIZ: New Zealand Music Month 2022

May is New Zealand Music Month. Test your knowledge of the Ōtautahi music scene back in the day.

Highways and Byways of contemporary music in Aotearoa

Explore some of the interesting and enlightening paths contemporary pūoro has taken in Aotearoa.

Ideal Home Noise - Vera Ellen: WORD Christchurch 2024

"Music is how I say the things I really want to say". Vera Ellen & Fazerdaze talk about making music, songwriting, & Vera plays some songs.

Kommi me ana Tipua: WORD Christchurch 2024

Malcolm: "This performance was a study in controlled refinement, with The Piano's excellent acoustics rendering the music in fine detail".

NZ Music

Streaming New Zealand music

Streaming NZ music blog posts

Walton conducts Walton - The 1964 New Zealand Tour – free online New Zealand music

Walton conducts Walton - The 1964 New Zealand Tour features historic performances, recorded by The New Zealand Broadcasting Corporation…

Spark New Zealand Piano Trios - Featuring NZTrio – free online New Zealand music

Spark New Zealand Piano Trios present cutting-edge music for piano trios performed by the brightest new stars in the firmament of New…

Prospero Dreaming - New Zealand Guitar Music by Lilburn and Farquhar – free online New Zealand music

Today we present New Zealand Guitar Music by Lilburn and Farquhar - the first comprehensive recorded survey of the guitar music of  these…

Strike: New Zealand Percussion Music – free online New Zealand music

Today we bring you Strike: New Zealand Percussion Music which won the 2001 Tui for best classical CD at the New Zealand Music Awards.…

Walton conducts Walton - The 1964 New Zealand Tour – free online New Zealand music

Walton conducts Walton - The 1964 New Zealand Tour features historic performances, recorded by The New Zealand Broadcasting Corporation…

Spark New Zealand Piano Trios - Featuring NZTrio – free online New Zealand music

Spark New Zealand Piano Trios present cutting-edge music for piano trios performed by the brightest new stars in the firmament of New…

Prospero Dreaming - New Zealand Guitar Music by Lilburn and Farquhar – free online New Zealand music

Today we present New Zealand Guitar Music by Lilburn and Farquhar - the first comprehensive recorded survey of the guitar music of  these…

Strike: New Zealand Percussion Music – free online New Zealand music

Today we bring you Strike: New Zealand Percussion Music which won the 2001 Tui for best classical CD at the New Zealand Music Awards.…

AudioCulture Iwi Waiata

AudioCulture is, “the noisy library of New Zealand music”. It is an online celebration of the people who have created the music, the scenes they shaped, and the audiences they played to. Read about People, Labels and related Articles, listen to music (via Spotify and Soundcloud), watch music videos (via NZ On Screen and YouTube), listen to interviews and performances (via Radio New Zealand National), view images (photographs, posters, hand-written song lyrics and more), and browse discographies (via Discogs).

Music at Christchurch City Libraries

We have music resources including CDs, LPs and DVDs as well as thousands of music scores, music magazines, and online music in eResources.

Explore our page about New Zealand music including:

Previous years

See what we did in:

2021, 2020, 2019, 2018, 2017, 2016, 2015, 2014, 2013, 2012, 2011, 2010, 2009, 2008, 2007, 2006, 2005, and 2004.

Pūoro - Music

Pūoro - Music

Listen online, research, or make music of your own at the library.
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