Savina started organising all ages shows from the age of 16 for her band along with other local bands, all with a mission of creating more all ages events in Auckland. Since then Savina has worked in various areas of the music industry from music publishing and supervision to events, tours and festivals.
Cushla Aston - Marketing & Promoting Live Shows Moderator
Calvin Culverwell - Looking After Yourself On the Road Moderator
Wairere Iti - Festival Bookers Moderator
Wairere Iti has been involved in New Zealand Music for over 30 years. As Co-founder of Auckland based booking agency Grafiti Entertainment he has toured bands extensively throughout Europe, USA, Australia and New Zealand and has worked as tour manager for some of New Zealand top acts.
Currently, Wairere is the operations manager for the Soundsplash festival in Raglan and also runs his tech startup called Akudos, a cloud-based awards management platform which is used by the Vodafone New Zealand Music Awards and the Apra Silver Scroll Awards.
Laughton Kora - Artist
Matt Harvey - Management, Shapeshifter
Hamish Pinkham - Co-founder / Director, Rhythm & Vines
Gerry Paul - Coastella
Anna Loveys - Marketing, Saint Lachine
Carol Harding - Stage Management & Production
Carol has more than 30 years experience in the entertainment industry as a stage manager, producer and in production. Having worked on some of New Zealand’s largest events such as Big Day Out (20 years), WOMAD (12 years), R&V (9 years), the NZ Music Awards (22 years) her experience is vast and wide having worked with emerging artists, rock n’ roll legends to Presidents and Royalty.
Tom Anderson - Whammy! Bar / Production
Gavin Downie - Music In Parks
Rachel Turney - Co-director, Homegrown Events
Mel Parsons - Artist
Harry Pettit - Bird Nest Entertainment
Chris Tate - Director, College Hill
Chris has over 20 years experience in live sound reinforcement. He has won awards for Best Live Sound Engineer and has been credited for his contribution to platinum records. International touring acts ask for him by name to mix their live shows, and he is extremely passionate about mixing sound perfectly.
Julia Deans - Artist
As the sassy and beguiling front woman for Fur Patrol at the turn of the century, the past decade has seen Julia Dean’s transition from iconic rock chick to glamorous songbird. With Taite, Silver Scroll and NZ Music Award nominations under her belt she also has vast experience touring not only with her musical prowess but also on stages in Shakespeare soliloquies, art festival shows, musicals and tribute performances.
Tami Neilson - Artist
With a rigorous international touring schedule, Tami Neilson plays sold out shows across North America, New Zealand and Europe. A true force to be reckoned with Tami has been described as “A red-hot honkey-tonker, somewhere between Patsy Cline and Wanda Jackson with perhaps just a little bit of Peggy Lee sophistication”.