NZ Live

Ex-pat Kiwi musician Andrew Keoghan is back home to preside over the release of his second album and tour the homeland. Read more Audio

Arts laureate and national treasure Moana Maniapoto performs with her band live in RNZ’s studios. Read more Video, Audio

Rising folk singer-songwriter Nadia Reid plays a couple of tracks from her album Preservation. Read more Video, Audio

Hawkes Bay singer-songwriter Anthony Stretch - aka Stretch - plays live in our Auckland studio.  Read more Audio

Li'l Chuck, aka David Thorpe, is a Christchurch based musician about to release his second solo album. Chuck describes himself is a One Man Skiffle Machine. Read more Audio

Wellington dream-pop band French for Rabbits play a couple of tracks from their upcoming second album 'The Weight of Melted Snow'. Read more Video, Audio

While still at school, Jesse Sheehan became the first ever solo artist to win the Smokefree Rock Quest. This weekend he performs at the Coastella music festival on the Kapiti Coast. Read more Audio

Today, in our Auckland studio, a Bluegrass band based in Brisbane, Australia but with an ex-pat Kiwi at the helm. George Jackson left New Zealand at sixteen. He moved to the BIG COUNTRY with his… Read more Audio

A welcome return for another of our successful musical exports.  Currently full-time residents of Nashville Tennessee, they are back home to tour that new album and to, no doubt, catch up with family… Read more Audio

Jazz Guitarist Neil Watson has played with the best; American jazz saxophonist and 15 time Grammy winner Michael Brecker, jazz singer, pianist and Grammy award winner Diane Shuur and many others. Read more Audio

Auckland indie-folk group Tweed play tracks from their debut album High-Brow Blues and have a chat with Megan Whelan Read more Video, Audio

We present our traditional Christmas edition of New Zealand Live today with three distinctly different acts in our three main centre studios. Read more Audio