SMOKEFREEROCKQUEST 2015 – Taranaki finals on June 12

SMOKEFREEROCKQUEST 2015 – Taranaki finals on June 12

It’s the big night of the year for youth music in Taranaki next Friday as the top bands and solo/duo performers in the region play off in the regional final of Smokefreerockquest 2015 at TSB Showplace.

Smokefreerockquest founder and director Glenn Common said Smokefreerockquest offers the entrants on Friday night a platform for live performance that builds on what they have learnt at school.

“The support that contemporary musicians get in schools these days is evident in the number of young musicians that get to performance standard,” he said. “Secondary school teachers offer tuition and encouragement, create space for bands and soloists to practise, they come along to support them at Smokefreerockquest and help them to get the most value from the experience of entering SFRQ – before, during and after.”

He said the professional performance environment offered by SFRQ included a stage set up with lights, sound, projection and technical support in a show that includes a guest band, MC and lots of giveaways.

Because there were no heats held in Taranaki the 16 entrants all go through to the regional final, they are:

Maybe Next May New Plymouth BHS, Francis Douglas Memorial Coll
Weekend Contradiction St Mary's Diocesan School

Angel wood Waitara High School

Out by Friday Sacred Heart Girls' College

Hunter Stembridge New Plymouth Girls' High School

Pedal to the Metal Waitara High School

James O'Donovan New Plymouth Boys' High School

Entropy Inglewood School, FDMC, Coastal Taranaki School

Istoria Spotswood College

Laura Griffiths Sacred Heart Girls' College

Zing New Plymouth GHS, Bell Block School

Garage Girls Spotswood College

Lyric Tyler New Plymouth Girls' High School

Paradox Paradox Sacred Heart Girls' Coll, Francis Douglas Mem. Coll

No Good Spotswood College

The Suburban Goons New Plymouth Boys' High School

The Taranaki final is at TSB Showplace on Friday 12 June, start time 7pm, tickets $10 for school students and $20 for adults from Ticket Master or at the door. The guest act is Auckland five piece rock band, The Eversons.

At the regional final the top two bands and two solo/duos are selected to go into the national finalists’ judging pool and other awards and prizes are presented.

Smokefreerockquest, powered by Rockshop, has national winners’ prize packages for bands and the solo/duo winners, that includes $22,000 in Rockshop vouchers, a $20,000 NZ On Air recording, video and promo package’ a ‘Decent Exposure’ campaign on FOUR, a photo shoot with Thievery Studio, a branding package from Imaginary Friends and the Unleashed Travel ambassador award – a seven day trip to Fiji. There is also the MAINZ (Music and Audio Institute of New Zealand) Scholarship for Outstanding Musicianship, the APRA (Australasian Performing Right Association) Lyric Award, the Lowdown Best Song Award and the Smokefree Women’s Musicianship Award. The People’s Choice award is voted by text, with the opportunity to open the Smokefreerockquest national final.

More info at sfrq.co.nz or facebook.com/thesfrq

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