We’re joining in the celebration of New Zealand’s surging music scene, still alive and kicking despite everything 2020 threw at it.
We’re launching NZ Music Month at our Glengarry Victoria Park store on Tuesday 4 May from 4:40pm. There’ll be food and drink and all sorts of interesting people hanging about. Everybody’s favourite music store, the Rock Shop is, through their associate company KBB Music, putting a grand piano and someone to play it in our store for the event, where it will stay for the duration of NZ Music Month as various luminaries pop in to work the keys. Meanwhile, all of our Glengarry stores will be running nothing but Kiwi music for the whole of the month.
On Saturday 26 May from 4 pm there will be a free pop-up live event with a performance at Glengarry Victoria Park.
Starting from the 3 May, the champs at the Rock Shop are donating one instrument a week to be won, and we’re not talking tambourines! All you have to do to get into the draw is tell us via our Facebook page and Instagram your favourite New Zealand artist or band, and you’re in.
There’ll be a Vinyl Market at Glengarry Victoria Park on Saturday 26 May between 11am and 4pm, and we’ll be conducting video tastings combined with live music.
Two key partners behind all this are Framingham and Tito’s, both of whom have a long association with MusicHelps. This year is no different, with both companies donating a portion of the sale of each bottle to the charity. Through their grants programme MusicHelps have invested with partners in projects from Whangarei to Invercargill, all using the power of music to change the lives of tens of thousands of New Zealanders in need.
They have provided emergency assistance to hundreds of Kiwi music people experiencing hardship and illness through their backline suite of services. This includes a professional online, on-the-phone, and face-to-face counselling service tailored to people who make live and recorded music possible.
Partnering with skilled clinicians, MusicHelps support projects in healthcare, including music therapy and initiatives that engage with youth from troubled backgrounds. They provide assistance through their benevolent fund and their professional wellbeing and counselling service to Kiwi music people from all parts of the music industry who are experiencing illness, distress and hardship. They need your support: musichelps.org.nz
Mark these dates in your calendar now;
• Vinyl Market – come buy and sell at Glengarry Victoria Park, Saturday 22 May 11am – 4pm.
• Live gig – FREE at Glengarry Victoria Park, Saturday 22 May from 4pm.
• Weekly from 3 May – join the conversation about NZ Music via
Glengarry’s social media and go in the draw to win epic instruments donated by the Rockshop.
Make the choice and tune into NZ music this month, all Glengarry stores will be.
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