Here is the official NZ Music Month 2015 Website
NZ Music Month quiz for Primary Schools
Homework activity: If your parents or grandparents grew up in New Zealand, ask them about their favourite New Zealand bands and music when they were growing up. Are those bands / performers / musicians still around today?
NZ Music Month for Schools - A Song a Day
See if you can keep up with viewing and listening to one NZ song each day for the entire month of May. Here they are starting from May1.
Friday May 1: April Sun in Cuba by Dragon
Dragon was a rock band in the 1970s and were inducted into the New Zealand Music Hall of Fame in 2011. "April Sun in Cuba" was a hit in both New Zealand (reaching #9 in the charts) and Australia (reaching number #2 ). It's a popular song for covers bands to play and is in this year's World Vision Kids for Kids "Slice of Heaven" programme as well, so our choirs are already learning this. Here's a 2010 TV3 News interview with the new line up of Dragon.
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| Can you find Cuba? |
Monday May 4: E Ipo by Prince Tui Teka
Prince Tui Teka was born in the heart of Te Uruwera. He wrote this song with the help of Ngoi Pewhairangi, a MAori educator, teacher and translator who also wrote the lyrics to "Poi E" for the Patea Maori Club. This was the first song in Te Reo to reach #1 on the charts. The song was based on a popular Indonesian Melody that Teka had listened to while performing overseas.
Tuesday May 5: Slice of Heaven by Dave Dobbyn
"Slice of Heaven" was written for the movie Footrot Flats: A Dog's Tale, based on the NZ cartoon series by Murray Ball. The single featured reggae band Herbs, and the song was named 1986 Song of the Year. This song also features in this year's World Vision Kids for Kids Concert which will involve our choirs in November.
Wednesday May 6 In the Neighbourhood by Sisters Underground
This song was one of the first hip-hop hits by a NZ group. Sisters Underground, a hip hop and R&B duo, won Most Promising Group at the 1995 New Zealand Music Awards.
Thursday May 7: Sweet Inspiration by the Yandall Sisters
Caroline, Mary, Adele and later their younger sister Pauline were the Yandall sisters and were a popular New Zealand/Samoan all-female singing group of the 1970s. In 1974 their hit song Sweet Inspiration stayed on the NZ Top 20 singles charts for 8 weeks. This is a short Tagata Pasifika tv item about the Yandall Sisters from 2012.
Friday May 8: I Love the Islands by Savage
Demetrius Savelio, also known as rap artist Savage, performed the Savage Island album track "I love the Islands" to raise funds for those affected by the Samoan tsunami 2009, in which fourteen of his grandmother's family members lost their lives.
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