Canterbury Artists Feature for NZ Music Month

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Canterbury Artists Feature for NZ Music Month

Long before the government realised they could cash in on the culture vote. Long before arts bureaucrats and commercial radio started patting each other on the back. Long before it was a cool thing to do – community radio championed New Zealand music. Even now that New Zealand music is everywhere on radio and the big names get plenty of coverage, it is still community radio that supports the hundreds of local musicians who don’t get a look in on mainstream radio.

So for NZ Music month local community radio station, Plains FM, is featuring the many superb artists who play week in week out in the clubs, bars and cafes around our region.

While the music journos; arts bureaucrats and industry players stand around at the back of the big name events sipping in their Coronas and looking paunchy in their NZ Music Month t-shirts, Plains FM’s Mornings programme will talk to and play the music of the hundreds of hard working, professional and incredibly talented people who bring us our musical entertainment in this region.

Already Tom Rainey and Scott Taitoko have appeared on the show and mornings producer, Hamish Doake says there are so many interview possibilities that the show will have trouble fitting them all in.
“We opened our NZ music cupboard and went through the CD’s to prepare”, he says “and there’s just so much there from Canterbury artsists. We’ll have no trouble filling the show and then some”.

Mornings is on Plains FM - 8.00am-10.00am weekdays and the interviews will be podcast on www.plainsfm.org.nz

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