CHARTFEST 2009 THIS FRIDAY

CHARTFEST 2009 THIS FRIDAY
The New Zealand Music Month spotlight hits Christchurch this Friday 29 May as the city counts down to the return of CHARTFEST 2009 - Christchurch’s largest annual indoor music festival and expo.

Following the success of the inaugural 2008 event, CHARTFEST 2009 kicks off this Friday at 4pm at the Christchurch Town Hall complex with 36 interactive stalls featuring the city’s music organisations and national industry representatives which will present a career and industry expo, music performance clinics, industry expert panel discussions, back stage tours, music gaming zone and much more.

Then, from 6.45pm CHARTFEST cranks things up a gear launching into a multi-genre showcase of more than 20 of Christchurch’s premier live acts performing across 4 stages. The line-up includes Solaa, Shocking Pinks, Nathan King, Clap Clap Riot, Beneath The Silence, The Eastern, Lindon Puffin & The Transgressions, Ragamuffin Children, The Harbour Sessions, Truth, Maitreya, Isaac Chambers, Reality Chant Sound, Rare Shot Blue and more.

CHARTFEST’s aim is to utilise a range of interactive music activities and live showcases to encourage, involve, inform and inspire primarily those aged 12-22 to follow a music-related career – as a musician or in the support and service roles that exist around music e.g. artist managers, promoters, event managers, sound engineers, media etc while demonstrating the industry capability and opportunities available in Christchurch.

Festival organiser and manager of CHART, Jeff Fulton says, “We’re really excited about showing off the best of Christchurch music. The festival and expo taps into the rich vein of talent residing and originating from the garden city. CHARTFEST is not only for aspiring musicians, but budding managers, producers, journalists, graphic designers, web developers, accountants, lawyers…. anyone passionate about a career in the wider music industry” he said.

“For our younger audience we’ve developed a Career Expo where they can rub shoulders with New Zealand music industry reps, discuss career options, meet professional musicians and discover all the music-related training options available around town. There are music performance clinics featuring guitar, drums, bass, vocals, hip hop dance, lighting, staging and much more. We’ll have the exceptionally talented Nick Gaffney (Anika Moa, Goldenhorse) and Aaron Tokona (Weta), among others, running the clinics”.

Fulton said another highlight of the festival is the CHARTFEST Christchurch Band Search competition, with the winner opening CHARTFEST’s main stage.

Tickets to CHARTFEST are available through Ticketek outlets - 0800 TICKETEK (842538) http://ticketek.co.nz or Real Groovy Records for only $15 + booking fee. Students & RDUnited members $10 + booking fee.
Full CHARTFEST details at -

http://www.chartfest.co.nz
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