Music News - Music Industry Summit Scheduled For May
03 February 2015 - 0 Comments
Whether your talent is singing in the shower, herding wayward band members, or crafting computer beats, the world’s very first YAMI Sounz Summit, scheduled for May 16 & 17 at the Lake Wanaka Centre, could be right up your alley.
Aimed at anyone from ages 10 to 110 years, YAMI stands for Youth and Adults in the Music Industry, and provides a weekend of musical workshops, discussions, debates and showcases, aimed at assisting youth and adults with a desire to work within the NZ music industry.
Lake Wanaka SouNZ Inc Director, Lynne Christie (Rippon Festival, Sounz Forza Workshops, Cabaret on Ruby), is “ridiculously excited” about the opportunity to offer what she describes as a unique summit for the South Island.
Christie points out that participants do not have to be musical; YAMI will give people a chance to see other careers integral within a vibrant music industry, and the steps needed to enter this workforce. A main aim is to show the ‘real’ side of the industry (nationally & globally) and focus on helping the students become productive, independent members with a musical career.
Professionals within the NZ music industry will congregate in Wanaka during NZ Music Month to share their experience of how to create a financially viable career path. Course topics range from Song & Lyric Writing, Demystifying Music Production, Front-of-House Audio Mixing, and Media and Marketing, to Crowd-funding and Touring Overseas.
The “heavyweights” of the music industry who have already confirmed their availability for YAMI include Anika Moa, Barnaby Weir (The Black Seeds, Fly My Pretties), Devin Abrams (Shapeshifter), Sarah Crowe (NZ on Air), Craig Pearce (Manager, The Phoenix Foundation, The Black Seeds), Chris ‘Mu’ Faiumu (Fat Freddy’s Drop), and Lee Prebble (Founder/Owner/Audio Engineer, Surgery Studios). More tutors and speakers are to be announced in March.
Described as a new initiative, which will hopefully become a fixture on the calendar in the Queenstown-Lakes region, YAMI is intended as a 'feeder' for the NZ music industry, currently in an exciting growth stage, which the Lake Wanaka SouNZ crew has witnessed since starting up in 1997.
Prairie Pritchett, YAMI’s media manager states, “YAMI builds on the work achieved through the Sounz Forza Workshops, which recognise the growing trend for youth and adults to discover what they are truly passionate about and make that the focus of their career”.
In recognition of its efforts to address the need for people to “find their world”, even if they are not destined to be full-time musicians, YAMI has received support from NZ Music Commission, APRA, Recorded Music NZ, NZ on Air, Air NZ, QLDC and Lake Wanaka Tourism in order to stage the first music summit of its kind in NZ. YAMI is preparing to host somewhere between 60 and 150 youth, adults, children and their families this May.
Registrations for the inaugural YAMI Sounz Summit open on February 17th.
Thanks to www.yami.nz for this story.
|
Next: To The Birds Album Release March 4th with Superturtle and The Echo Ohs |
Prev: 'A Vinyl Affair' - Wellington's record fair – 7th March 2015 at San Fran |
Comments
Most Viewed Artists
Latest Galleries
NZ Top 10 Singles
- MILLION DOLLAR BABY
Tommy Richman - NOT LIKE US
Kendrick Lamar - LUNCH
Billie Eilish - A BAR SONG (TIPSY)
Shaboozey - I HAD SOME HELP
Post Malone feat. Morgan Wallen - CHIHIRO
Billie Eilish - ESPRESSO
Sabrina Carpenter - TOO SWEET
Hozier - BIRDS OF A FEATHER
Billie Eilish - SKINNY
Billie Eilish
More Content on muzic.net.nz
Google Site Search
100% New Zealand Music
All content on this website is copyright to muzic.net.nz and other respective rights holders. Redistribution of any material presented here without permission is prohibited.
Report A Problem
There are currently no comments for this article. Please log in to add new comments.