Two Waiheke residents are offering the chance to win a Waiheke home for just $1.70, Find out more on Island Life this Saturday, the 7th of August. We'll also be hearing from:

Kimmy and Hana, local teens just back from building a school in Uganda;

Novelist and poet Mike Johnson;

Opinionated Islanders Alan Knight and Alex Stone;

and councillor Densie Roche.

Island Life - Saturday 1am-12pm

It's just under a month away until The Waiheke Winter Blues Festival warms up winter on the 28 & 29 August with a great line up of New Zealand Blues artists in paradise!

More artists are being added to the already top line up and the full programme is now available to view on the website: http://www.whatsonwaiheke.co.nz/

Tickets are ON SALE from Fullers ferries, SeaLink, i-Site, Oneroa and through the festival website. Don't forget that getting your tickets in advance of the weekend means you'll save at least $10. Under 18's go free to festival venues if accompanied by an adult.

Emerging Blues Talent Competition

Waiheke Radio in association with the Waiheke Winter Blues Festival is launching a competition this year to find the best emerging Blues talent around. Entrants will get the opportunity to perform one blues song of their choice at The Woolshed on Sunday 29 August with the audience deciding the winners. Winners will receive a music video produced by Let Me Out Ltd. So if you know of any great young or new blues performers who you think would relish the opportunity, please feel free to let them know about it and take a look at the competition page here: http://www.whatsonwaiheke.co.nz/blues_competition.html

We'll continue to add more details and information to the web site and be sure to listen in on the B-Squared Blues show on Tuesday nights for more information and ticket give-aways.

About Songlines

Celebrating its 10th anniversary in 2009, Songlines is the magazine that looks at the world through its music. Covering music from traditional and popular to contemporary and fusion, Songlines features artists from all around the globe: from Afghanistan to Zimbabwe; from Miriam Makeba to Mariza; from Gilberto Gil to Gogol Bordello and from Bjork to Buena Vista Social Club. Discover the traditional instruments of the world: the sitar, the kora, the talking drum and beyond.

Edited by Simon Broughton, co-editor of The Rough Guide to World Music, Songlines is packed full of the latest CD reviews, artist interviews, guides to particular world music traditions, travel adventures, beginner's and city guides, frontline reports and concert listings.

Explore the music featured in the magazine on each issue's exclusive Top of the World CD, featuring the editor's selection of ten tracks from the best new album releases, as well as a 5-track guest playlist.

http://www.songlines.co.uk/index.php

Whether you're an armchair traveller or looking to plan your next adventure, this triple CD box-set (priced at the normal RPP of one Rough Guide) is a fantastic snapshot of music from around the globe. Released in conjunction with the new book, Make the Most of Your Time on Earth: A Rough Guide To The World (sold separately), this collection features one disc of music from the Americas, one from Africa and one from Europe and Asia.

The Americas disc features music from Andy Palacio, the inventor of the Central American 1990s dance genre punta-rock, tango from the septuagenarian Dino Saluzzi, Chicago slide-guitar from the mighty R L Burnside, along with music from the Grammy Award winning Gillian Welch and other talented performers.

On the African disc, former Fela Kuti cohort and reputed inventor of Afrobeat, Tony Allen features alongside the likes of Somalian-Ethiopian songbird Saba, and the Berber performer and songwriter Akli D. Akli D's track is taken from an album produced by the international recording star and producer Manu Chao.

The disc highlighting Europe and Asia's myriad musical traditions showcases the new-generation Portuguese fado singer Cristina Branco, the Scottish Celtic eight-piece band Capercaillie, the cult Sicilian brass band Banda Ionica and the astonishingly soulful voice of Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan. Khan can be credited for bringing qawwali (Sufi devotional music) to the world's attention.

This triple CD box-set is jam-packed with exhilarating tracks and is an excellent entry-point into the richness and diversity of world music. We hope it will be the launch-pad of some musical adventures!

Whakanuia Te Wiki o te Reo Māori
Celebrate Māori Language Week

Date: Māori Language Week 26 July - 01 August 2010

http://www.korero.maori.nz/news/mlw

Whether you're an armchair traveller or looking to plan your next adventure, this triple CD box-set (priced at the normal RPP of one Rough Guide) is a fantastic snapshot of music from around the globe. Released in conjunction with the new book, Make the Most of Your Time on Earth: A Rough Guide To The World (sold separately), this collection features one disc of music from the Americas, one from Africa and one from Europe and Asia.

The Americas disc features music from Andy Palacio, the inventor of the Central American 1990s dance genre punta-rock, tango from the septuagenarian Dino Saluzzi, Chicago slide-guitar from the mighty R L Burnside, along with music from the Grammy Award winning Gillian Welch and other talented performers.

On the African disc, former Fela Kuti cohort and reputed inventor of Afrobeat, Tony Allen features alongside the likes of Somalian-Ethiopian songbird Saba, and the Berber performer and songwriter Akli D. Akli D's track is taken from an album produced by the international recording star and producer Manu Chao.

The disc highlighting Europe and Asia's myriad musical traditions showcases the new-generation Portuguese fado singer Cristina Branco, the Scottish Celtic eight-piece band Capercaillie, the cult Sicilian brass band Banda Ionica and the astonishingly soulful voice of Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan. Khan can be credited for bringing qawwali (Sufi devotional music) to the world's attention.

This triple CD box-set is jam-packed with exhilarating tracks and is an excellent entry-point into the richness and diversity of world music. We hope it will be the launch-pad of some musical adventures!

 nd Viennese  - 12 tone.  A few weeks ago I played some early music from the key group of composers who comprised the 2nd Viennese School.  Led by Arnold Schoeberg, the theoretical and compositional work they did had a huge influence on the direction classical music took away from tonality and realistically it was not until the 1970's and the advent of minimalism that idea of tonality in music became common-place and accepted at an academic and critical level.  in this show I'm going to be playing some of the atonal but non 12 tone works  and some of their more mature works that really illustrate 12 tone music and serialism.