NZ Live

Loren and Mark are from opposite ends of the earth. Twelve years ago they met in Nashville, Tennessee and found a shared love of bluegrass music and the finger guitar stylings of the late Chet Atkins.

This afternoon, the return of singer/songwriter and troubadour Luke Thompson. He's spent some time in Australia recently and has taken his music as far as Europe. Now, after taking a year off from… Read more Audio

In 2016 Wellington singer-songwriter Thomas Oliver added the coveted Apra Silver Scroll to his many accolades. His new album Floating in the Darkness is out this week. Read more Audio

Auckland country-blues rockers The DeSotos are back in our studio to play backing musicians to their lead singer Paul Gurney, whose solo album Shadow of Love was released this April. Read more Audio

Ex-pat Kiwi musician Andrew Keoghan is back home to preside over the release of his second album and tour the homeland. Read more Audio

Arts laureate and national treasure Moana Maniapoto performs with her band live in RNZ’s studios. Read more Video, Audio

Rising folk singer-songwriter Nadia Reid plays a couple of tracks from her album Preservation. Read more Video, Audio

Hawkes Bay singer-songwriter Anthony Stretch - aka Stretch - plays live in our Auckland studio.  Read more Audio

Li'l Chuck, aka David Thorpe, is a Christchurch based musician about to release his second solo album. Chuck describes himself is a One Man Skiffle Machine. Read more Audio

Wellington dream-pop band French for Rabbits play a couple of tracks from their upcoming second album 'The Weight of Melted Snow'. Read more Video, Audio

While still at school, Jesse Sheehan became the first ever solo artist to win the Smokefree Rock Quest. This weekend he performs at the Coastella music festival on the Kapiti Coast. Read more Audio

Today, in our Auckland studio, a Bluegrass band based in Brisbane, Australia but with an ex-pat Kiwi at the helm. George Jackson left New Zealand at sixteen. He moved to the BIG COUNTRY with his… Read more Audio