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Te Reo Reka o Aotearoa | The New Zealand Music Commission is pleased to share the results for the Round 13 of the Aotearoa Touring Programme.

The Aotearoa Touring Programme invests in approved domestic touring costs, to enable more Aotearoa artists to grow sustainable careers and increase the access to live music for Aotearoa audiences. The Aotearoa Touring Programme is a contestable fund intended to reinvigorate the live music sector and assist in the recovery from the effects of COVID-19 in the domestic touring market.

As one of the initiatives in the Government’s New Zealand Music Recovery Fund, the Aotearoa Touring Programme is part of the Manatū Taonga Ministry of Culture & Heritage led Arts & Culture COVID Recovery Programme, focused on the recovery, regeneration and revitalisation of the cultural sector.

The Aotearoa Touring Programme is run by Te Reo Reka o Aotearoa | The New Zealand Music Commission to grow the potential for original New Zealand artists touring across Aotearoa and enable more New Zealanders to experience live, local music. It is a matched investment programme (i.e. the programme will match the recipient’s investment), so applicants can apply for 50% of the eligible costs for undertaking national tours across Tiers 1 and 2. The two tiers have a different maximum limit for each grant as well as different criteria.

In Round 13 of the Aotearoa Touring Programme, 28 recipients were awarded with grants for their respective touring projects. Applications for this round closed on the 18th of January 2023.

Te Reo Reka o Aotearoa | The New Zealand Music Commission is pleased to announce the following Aotearoa Touring Programme grant recipients:

Aotearoa Touring Programme Tier 1 Recipients (listed in alphabetical order)

· [Allophones] for a 13-date tour of Aotearoa in support of debut single ‘HUMAN’.

· 10:32 for a 10-show release tour of venues, festivals and coffee shops for NZonAir funded single, ‘Coffee Shop Girl’.

· Bleeders for a 5-date national tour in celebration of 20 year anniversary of debut EP ‘A Bleeding Heart’.

· Borderline for a 4-date tour of the North Island.

· Crooked Royals for a 5-date tour of the North and South Island in support of debut album ‘Quarter Life Daydream’.

· Crustaceanz for a 6-date tour of the North and South Island for single release ‘The Slap’.

· Dead Favours for a 7-date tour of the North and South Island in support of sophomore album.

· Grecco Romank for a 7-date tour of Aotearoa to promote second studio album ‘Wet Exit’.

· Imperial Slave for a 9-date tour to promote upcoming material for their second album.

· Jenny Mitchell for an 8-date winter tour of the North and South Island.

· Melowdownz for a nation-wide tour to celebrate their long-awaited ‘LONE WOLF’ album.

· Midwave Breaks for a debut headline 9-date tour of the North and South Island across NZ Music Month, in support of ‘Mind Made Up’ EP, and new single ‘Souvenirs’.

· Neive Strang for an 8-date New Zealand Tour: ‘Living in Two’.

· O & The Mo for a tour to showcase new and unreleased material.

· Pieces of Molly, Pull Down the Sun and Claemus for a 3-date TITANS tour.

· Princess Chelsea for a 4-date tour in support of the album ‘Everything is Going To Be Alright’.

· Proteins Of Magic for an 8-date national tour in support of upcoming single release.

· Sam Bambury for a 7-date tour to support debut album.

· Soaked Oats for a 4-date autumn tour.

· Soft Plastics for a 6-date tour of the North and South Island in support of debut album ‘Saturn Return’.

· Swallow The Rat and Ripship for a 7-date joint tour to support respective new releases.

· The DeSotos for a 5-date upper South Island tour.

· The Pleasure Majenta for a 5-date tour between the North and South Island in support of latest album ‘Looming, The Spindle’.

· Wahine Asians Are Here for a 3-city tour of the North Island, with each artist playing their respective hometowns.

Aotearoa Touring Programme Tier 2 Recipients (listed in alphabetical order)

· Blam Blam Blam for a 5-date 2023 summer tour.

· Coterie for a 6-date tour of the North and South Island in support of their debut self-titled album.

· Dance Exponents / The Exponents for a 10-date all-ages tour of the North and South Island.

· Lorde for an all-ages tour of North and South Island.