The Band School

🚨YOUTH GIG ALERT! 📢

https://www.thebandschool.co.nz/concert

Concert — The Band School $5 per person, performers and under 8s free.Pay online here or bring cash on the day.We’ll have your name from the tickets on the door – no tickets or apps needed.You can pay at the bar, but cash or online is much easier for us.All proceeds go to our end-of-year concert.

Waa hoo! 🎉 Our new choir is off to an amazing start — sounding fantastic already!
If you're curious, drop-ins and tryouts are totally welcome — and free if you decide it's not for you, so there's no excuse not to give it a go.

🎶 It’s a fun, affordable way to learn how to sing, build confidence, and be part of something awesome!

📍 Wednesdays 5:30–6:30pm at Gis Int
👧 Ages 10–16
💵 $160 per term (but we’ll adjust the price this term based on your start date)
🔗 www.thebandschool.co.nz/choir

Come sing with us! 🎤✨

Looking for a fun and musical way to spend the holidays? Our Holiday Programme is back. Learn and instrument or two, join a band (or two), learn or write a few songs, and prepare for a concert or music video. Read about our guest tutor below 👇

🗓️ Dates: 20th-24th January, Monday to Friday (concert 1:30pm friday)
📍 Location: Gis Int Music Dept. (park under the sails)
💵 Cost: $60 per day (discount for week booking)

🎸 Join a Band: Team up with others to create and rehearse your own tunes. All ages, all abilities
🎤 Learn Some Tunes: Prepare your band for a concert or music video
🎶 Choose a goal: learn or write some tunes / Record music / make a music video / perform live

🎼 Learn to play instruments: Drums / Electric guitar / bass / vocals / keyboards / synths? Ukulele

GUEST TUTOR MATTHEW ARMITAGE:
AUSTRALIAN BASED GUITARIST, SINGER & SONGWRITER
TEACHING AT OUR HOLIDAY PROGRAMME!

We’re excited to have the talented Matthew Armitage (Aus) join us for this year’s Holiday Programme! Matthew is a skilled guitarist, singer, and songwriter with a diverse career spanning jazz, rock, soul, funk, and RnB.

Classically trained but deeply immersed in contemporary music, Matthew has performed and recorded with bands like Odessa, Good Laika, Family Cactus, and a founding member of The Boomshack Band.

After 12 years of performing regularly in Australia, he’s now bringing his expertise to our programme, exclusively for this event.

Whether you're a guitarist or a singer-songwriter, Matthew’s workshops will offer invaluable insights and inspiration. He’ll be teaching group sessions for all levels and hosting a special advanced guitar workshop. Don’t miss the chance to learn from this experienced musician!

Join us for a week of creativity, learning, and music-making!

Holiday Programme — The Band School 🗓️ Dates: 16th-20th December, Monday to Friday📍 Location: Gis Int Music Dept. (park under the sails)💵 Cost: $60 per day (discount for week booking).

http://www.thebandschool.co.nz/holiday-programme
It's Busking time! Bookings are open and we usually have a full house, so let's get cracking into it!

Holiday Programme — The Band School 🗓️ Dates: 16th-20th December, Monday to Friday📍 Location: Gis Int Music Dept. (park under the sails)💵 Cost: $60 per day (discount for week booking).

Climate action!!

We’re up for more of these nights, what a
Fantastic show that was

We are still fizzing from Friday’s Youth Gig at Gizzy Local. Organised by youth for youth with an all rangatahi line up, it was a pretty special night! Pray 4 Summer did an awesome job of organising, it was great working with you guys. Four stellar performances by musicians aged 12 to 18, The Generators, Eleventh Hour, Tahi and Pray 4 Summer. Your skills and energy were 🔥 It was so cool to witness an audience so supportive and excited for their peers, and a growing appreciation for the live music experience amongst our young people. We are so stoked to be able to support local rangatahi to develop their own music scene here in Tūranganui-a-Kiwa, Gisborne. We can’t wait to do it again!