Music

A plan to protect live music in Dunedin could have its budget balloon nearly six-fold to $1.5 million over nine years.

Performing at the Waitati Music Festival is band Gutterlove with (from left) Glenn Bathgate on guitar and vocals, Lisa Gruner on vocals, Jason McIver on drums and Joe Pomana on bass.

A Mount Aspiring College (MAC) rock band has kickstarted the new year with the launch of a swansong EP.

The Dunedin Symphony Orchestra needs more funding from community sponsors to grow and take its rightful place among the best in the country, its new development manager says.

Although American through and through, for a few years Sheldon "Shel" Talmy defined the sound of British music.

Edith Piaf partly owed French composer Charles Dumont her most famous song.

American musician Alan Mansfield had a significant part to play in New Zealand rock history.

If the skies have been stubbornly grey this summer, fear not — there’s a vibrant beacon of fun on the horizon.

Although he did not play their music, lyricist Peter Sinfield was an integral figure in the success of 1970s band King Crimson.

January tends to be a month when bars and musicians alike are taking a well-deserved break.

A shared love of music has brought more than 70 musicians from across New Zealand to Oamaru this week.

Security guards had their hands full at Dunedin’s New Year’s Eve party in the Octagon, when a horde of children mobbed one of the performers.

Strangely, wherever Stephen Stern goes with his banjo, bluegrass seems to sprout up organically.