NZ Music Month

May is celebrated as New Zealand Music Month.  It is around this time that we get to hear specially on radio playing more tunes created by Kiwi artists.  The playlists have more local artists and even features on new and upcoming acts.  It is a great month to be a Kiwi on radio!  It is also a good feeling to have before the biting cold of winter gets to us.  In my radio show on Free FM 89.0 Waikato, although it only comes out once a week, I still try to play a tune or two in support of NZ Music Month.

I've always loved radio, listening to it and working in it.  It is a passion that I've had since I was a young boy who witnessed the birth of a radio station, from the ground up, right beside our house.  Those were AM radio times then that needed a tall steel tower to radiate power and reach.  I've seen how the tower was slowly put up, the old-fashioned way, manually.

Some quarters believe that radio is dead or dying.  I don't think so, as long as songwriters create music and the singers interpret them, radio will live on.  And isn't it that "music is a universal language?"  It's universality will keep it alive.  Long live NZ Music Month or much better long live NZ Music!