May is New Zealand Music Month! Celebrate New Zealand music throughout May with Christchurch City Libraries – there’s a lovely batch of NZ Music Month events at your libraries. Subscribe to our NZ Music Month Facebook event for regular updates.
NZ Music Month launch – Sunday 1 May, 7.30pm
Kane Strang at the Christchurch Art Gallery
Sunday 1 May, 7.30pm All ages (ID required)
Tickets $15 ($20 door sales if not sold out)
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Start NZ Music Month the right way! Dunedite Kane Strang brings the tousled charm of his off-kilter indie-rock songs to the Gallery for the evening. Support from Candice Milner and Jack Montgomery.
Free gigs at your local library
There are gigs of all sorts, including:
- Rockers of Ages at Linwood and Shirley Libraries singing funky songs from the last five decades
- John Chrisstoffels (theremin) & Motte (violin) at Shirley Library
- Adam McGrath of The Eastern at Shirley Library
- Irish music by Jonathan Le Cocq and Tessa White at Central Library Peterborough
- The Westmorelanders at Te Hāpua: Halswell Centre “ukulele, bass ukulele and guitar and playing a wide variety of songs from traditional folk to popular hits”
- Multi instrumentalist Carmel Courtney at South Library
Here’s the full list of performances at libraries.
Download the NZ Music Month gig guide [1.36 MB PDF]
Alternative radio: RDU98.5FM since 1976
Celebrate 40 years of iconic Christchurch radio station, RDU98.5FM in a new exhibition at Canterbury Museum. 18 March – 14 August 2016. Find out more.
The following RDU gigs take place in NZ Music Month:
RDU Live to air
A performance by a local Christchurch musician. Special Exhibitions Hall, Canterbury Museum
Sunday 1 May, 12pm
RDU Live to air
A performance by a local Christchurch musician. Special Exhibitions Hall, Canterbury Museum
Saturday 14 May, 12pm
RDU Live to air
A performance by a local Christchurch musician. Special Exhibitions Hall, Canterbury Museum
Saturday 21 May, 12pm
RDU LIVE GIG! Kill your television
Featuring Scythes, Transistors, Salad Boys and The Bats. Canterbury Museum, Saturday 28 May from 7pm. Tickets available via dashtickets.co.nz from 2 May.
NZ music resources
- Find out more about music in Christchurch.
- Explore New Zealand music in our collection.
- Browse our music resources.
NZ Music Month on Twitter
See #nzmm tweets
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