Uniting in support of the New Zealand music scene
If you work in the NZ Arts Industry and need some personal wellbeing support, you are now able to use the MusicHelps Wellbeing Service. You get FREE counselling sessions with trained counsellors available 24/7.
You can contact them either on line here or via phone tollfree 0508MUSICHELPS.
Composer, songwriter or performer, manager or roadie, production or backroom person, actor, comedian, dancer or someone who works front or back of house in the arts: this FREE Wellbeing Service is available to you. ps Lorde and Neil Finn are the patrons - so its legit!
MusicHelpsLive aims to support New Zealand’s music industry, which has been left devastated by COVID-19.
In the past month we’ve seen live music cancelled en masse throughout the country. New Zealand musicians and those who work behind the scenes are facing an uncertain future.
For eight years MusicHelps has been the music industry’s charity and among our core activities has been providing emergency financial support and professional counselling to kiwi music people when crisis strikes. Now we have started MusicHelpsLive to specifically support people and organisations facing hardship due to COVID-19.
Our response
MusicHelpsLive aims to raise $2 million dollars to see kiwi music people through the coming winter. All funds raised will be distributed to those music workers whose livelihoods have been shattered as a result of the COVID-19 crisis.
MusicHelps board chair and MusicHelpsLive spokesperson Campbell Smith says: “New Zealand’s musicians and the teams behind them are always there for us in times of trouble and tragedy, like the Band Together concert after the Christchurch earthquakes and You Are Us/Aroha Nui concerts following the Christchurch terror attacks. Now they are the ones that need our help.
“COVID-19 is having a devastating effect on the live music industry and the livelihoods of thousands of kiwi music people and businesses. Shows are cancelled, venues are threatened; production suppliers, roadies and crew are without work. With almost no notice, these hard-working, ordinary New Zealanders and their dependents are facing levels of distress and hardship never seen before.”
We’re calling on New Zealanders to visit www.musichelpslive.co.nz to make a donation or find other ways to support the live music industry."
MusicHelpsLive supporters
The following organisations have already pledged to support MusicHelpsLive:
Aston Road
Auckland Live
Auckland Stadiums
Audio Foundation
Australasian Performing Right Association (APRA)
Banished Music
Bay Dreams Festival
Big Pop Studios
College Hill
Commotion
CRS Management/CRS Presents
Delete Management
Dominion Law
DRM
Dryden Street
Eccles Entertainment
Entertainment Accounting Services
Flying Nun Foundation
Frontier Touring New Zealand
Independent Music New Zealand
KBB Music
Kiwi Krew
Kobalt Music Publishing
Laneway Festival
Live Nation
Loop
Lorraine Barry Management
Love Police
Mediaworks
Mushroom Music
MusicHelps
Native Tongue
Neptune Ent
New Zealand Music Awards
New Zealand Music Commission
New Zealand Music Managers Forum
New Zealand Musician
New Zealand Promoters Association
Nik Nak Media
NZ on Air
NZME
Oceania
OneMusic
Page 1 Management
Pead PR
Plus1
Radio New Zealand
Recorded Music New Zealand (RMNZ)
Red Bull
Rhythm and Alps Festival
Rhythm and Vines Festival
Richmond Music
Rockshop New Zealand
Roundhead Studios
Sony Music
Sony/ATV Music Publishing
Soundsplash Festival
Spark
Spark Arena
Spotify
Sum Square & Co
The Label
The Production Company
Ticketmaster
Universal Music
Universal Music Publishing
Venue Merchandising Services
Warner Chappell
Warner Music
