Celebrate with Nelson City Brass as the oldest brass band in NZ.
Celebration Brass is a concert to celebrate the 160th Anniversary of the Nelson's own band - Nelson City Brass. Musical Director Nigel Weeks will conduct the band playing bright entertaining brass music that all will enjoy.
This year the band's Special Guest Artist is Jackie Clarke. Entertainer, singer and comedian, Jackie was named 2016 Top Female Artist by the Variety Artists Club of New Zealand. Jackie has performed with everyone from Dave Dobbyn to the NZSO, has been a judge on TV's NZ Idol and was part of the successful group When The Cats Been Spayed.
The band will also feature champion euphonium player, Steve Miles. Regarded as one of the finest Euphonium players of his generation, Steve has held principal positions with some of the world's finest Brass Bands including the National Band of New Zealand, Brighouse & Rastrick, Black Dyke and Williams Fairey with whom he has produced many commercial recordings and toured as a featured soloist.
Rockshop Bandquest is a new platform for the next generation of contemporary musicians to step out and perform in a supportive and encouraging competition format, with a focus on education, inspiration and entertainment.
This event is the Nelson Regional Final of the Nationwide Intermediate school band competition.
by Die Roten Punkte (Germany)
Dysfunctional siblings Otto & Astrid are back with their latest show Eurosmash!, one of the most irreverent and funny gigs you are ever likely to see!
Otto & Astrid are Berlin's (self-appointed) Prince and Princess of Art Rock and Europop. They are unparalleled performers of stellar proportions - gigantic and explosive. Tragically orphaned as children, they ran away from their small rural hometown to Berlin, and knew instantly they had found a place among the counterculture and the solace and saviour of rock 'n' roll music.
A lipstick-smeared, tantrum-loving, sonic collision between the B52s, Kraftwerk and the early Ramones, Die Roten Punkte are truly one of a kind. Astrid's avant-garde style and legendary antics inspire both reverence and fear, while Otto's dynamic stage presence brings to mind a whirling dervish on meth.
Fans of Spinal Tap and Flight of the Conchords, say 'Hallo!' to your new favourite band!
"Orgasmic rock-und-roll experience." MONDAY MAGAZINE, CANADA
"Pitch-perfect pop parody." THE SCOTSMAN, UK
"Wild cabaret rock!" HERALD SUN, AUSTRALIA
Awards
Best Cabaret production - Melbourne Greenroom Awards 2015
Most Outstanding Show - London Fringe 2015
Best in Fest - Winnipeg Fringe 2008 & 2010
A musical imagining of Shakespeare's great soliloquies.
After a stunning sold-out show at Auckland's Pop-Up Globe, we are thrilled to have Play On in Nelson.
From Tui-nominated songwriter and award-winning composer Paul McLaney, and the producers behind Fly My Pretties, Play On is a celebration of Shakespeare set to contemporary music with an amazing New Zealand cast. McLaney has enlisted the help of high-profile musicians to perform a number of Shakespeare's most well-loved soliloquies as a song cycle.
Play On features performances from McLaney himself, alongside Julia Deans and Mara TK (Electric Wire Hustle), with accompaniment from the EDIN string section, featuring Rachel Wells, Jessica Hindin and Mahuia Bridgeman-Cooper.
The brainchild of McLaney along with actor/directors Ian Mune and Peter Elliot, Play On combines the best in acting and music for an unforgettable experience.
"If music be the food of love, play on." WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
Following their highly successful season of Fiddler on the Roof, Nelson Theatrix is delighted to present Love in the Spotlight - songs of love and heartbreak from some of the world's greatest musicals! If you loved Wicked Women of the Stage then Love in the Spotlight is the perfect 'winter' feel good show you can't miss!
Join us for some love - 'in love' heartbroken, quirky longs songs and the most important unrequited love!
Join the New Zealand String Quartet on their 30th anniversary tour for a concert filled with passion, yearning, joy and heartache. Their Dangerous Liaisons programme explores themes of love and desire and will take you on an emotional journey through some of the great works of the repertoire.
Mendelsohn's first love and Janacek's obsession with a woman half his age were both doomed to failure yet inspired some of their most beautiful works. Jack Body's Saetas takes its inspiration from the fire and passion of flamenco songs and reveals Rolf Gjelsten's secret talent as an accomplished accordionist.
Music and art harmonise in this concert at the Suter Gallery. A word of warning: it'll be an intimate affair and the music may steal your heart!
Programme
Janacek: String Quartet no 2, Intimate Letters
Jack Body: Saetas
Mendelssohn: String Quartet no 2 in A minor, op 13
Scotland’s legendary singer/songwriter Isla Grant returns to New Zealand with exciting new songs - plus her extensive repertoire of most loved music.
As an internationally acclaimed recording artist, Isla’s beautiful voice encompasses everything from country folk songs to easy listening - Isla’s spellbinding concert features her wonderful hit songs and takes a nostalgic look at her long and successful career.
Isla’s Concert will be a grand international concert not to be missed.
The Big Sing is a dynamic, national group-singing competition for secondary school students.
Festivals are held in June in eleven New Zealand regions and The Big Sing has grown into a major highlight of the secondary school music calendar. This year, more than 8000 young people are taking part in regional festivals nationwide, and the number continues to grow.
Come and hear talented young singers from schools across the region as they compete for a place in the Grand Final held later this year!
Welcome to the Nelson Final of Smokefreerockquest!
Smokefree Rockquest is New Zealand's only nationwide, live, original music, youth event. Founded in 1989 by music teachers Glenn Common and Pete Rainey, who now run Rockquest Promotions full-time out of Nelson, Smokefree Rockquest is a New Zealand institution.
Musical successes from Smokefree Rockquest include Kimbra, Broods, The Good Fun, Midnight Youth, Opshop, Annah Mac, Evermore, Ladyhawke, Minuit, Kids of 88, Die!Die!Die!, Pistol Youth, Bang!Bang!Eche!, Ivy Lies, Cairo Knife Fight, Cut Off Your Hands, Luke Thompson, The Datsuns, Brooke Fraser, Anika Moa, Anna Coddington, The Electric Confectionaires, Steriogram, Aaradhna, Spacifix, The Naked and Famous, Phoenix Foundation, The Feelers, The Black Seeds, Nesian Mystik, Bic Runga, The Checks, Julia Deans, Pine, King Kapisi, Kingston, The Naked and Famous, Autozamm and Elemeno P.
Smokefree Rockquest aims to motivate young musicians to prove their ability and realise the heights they can reach in their music careers, and to encourage their peers to support 100% original New Zealand music.
The Nelson Heats will be at Annesbrook Church on May 13 and will have door sales only.
A 1940's story about the world at home.
Rosie Can Do It is a story about the world at home in New Zealand during World War II. The title and theme for this year's annual SOUNDSTAGE concert is inspired by the iconic image of Rosie the Riveter from the World War II propaganda poster "We Can Do It". As relevant today, as then, the show explores the roles that we play in work and at home and the dreams and expectations that drive us to follow our hearts and fulfil our obligations to ourselves and our community.
Our largely female cast will prove that girls can do anything, especially if you are ready with a pair of gumboots. All singing, all dancing and all inspired by a backdrop of swinging 1940's classics and timeless modern anthems, our cast of many will delight and entertain you and leave you feeling that together we can achieve anything.
Presented by the 2017 students of SOUNDSTAGE Nelson and written and complied by Jane Winter.
SOUNDSTAGE music and performing arts school has been offering professional music and performing arts tuition to the talent of Nelson for the last 10 years.
