\u201cI love it. I always look forward to learning from them and I must say I was lucky that Miss Janie [GGHS head of music Jane Egan] sent me their songs ahead of time, so I\u2019m familiar with them,\u201d Crummer told the Gisborne Herald .<\/p>\n
\u201cI just love what it does to my brain. I get ideas and come up with ways to address the songs, but I only offer suggestions. At the end of the day, they\u2019re their songs.\u201d<\/p>\n
When the Herald visited, Crummer was working with five-piece band Eunoia made up of three guitarists, a drummer and a singer\/violinist. <\/p>\n
The students were working on a song called Midnight in Paris, written by Karli Bartlett, which they will be performing at Rockquest.<\/p>\n
She offered feedback and suggestions and joined in with a few harmonies, her powerful and distinctive voice giving depth to the song.<\/p>\n
Annie Crummer (second left) with, from left, Sharfaye Dela Torre, Crummer, Karli Bartlett, Lou Mangco, Chloe Olangca and Princess Estrada. Photo \/ Kim Parkinson<\/p>\n
\u201cI just go by what I feel and hear and address the songs appropriately, musically,\u201d Crummer said.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe reason I love getting the songs ahead of time is because even though I\u2019m here for a couple of days, time is crucial because you\u2019ve got bumper-to-bumper bands and I really want to maximise what I can offer to them.\u201d<\/p>\n
Four of the members of Eunoia play violin and are in the school\u2019s chamber music groups. <\/p>\n
Egan said that because they were a small high school, there was only a limited pool of musicians, so they ended up having to do everything.<\/p>\n
\u201cThey\u2019re all in the orchestra, they all do chamber music, they all do Rockquest and they all do the Play It Strange songwriting competition.<\/p>\n
\u2018We\u2019ve got 14 chamber music groups and the only other school that beats us in New Zealand is Burnside High in Christchurch, and that\u2019s a school of 3000.”<\/p>\n
GGHS has 14 groups in this year\u2019s Rockquest, as well as soloists and duos.<\/p>\n
Gisborne Girls’ High School students Miracle Eccles (left), Emilia Ilin and Naomi Campbell perform during the Musicians Mentoring in Schools Programme held at the school last week. Photo \/ Tamsin Wilson<\/p>\n
Crummer said the state-of-the-art music facilities offered by GGHS were a far cry from what she had at her high school, Avondale College in West Auckland.<\/p>\n
She remembers watching recordings of Ready to Roll, a weekly music countdown programme, in her music class.<\/p>\n
The Musicians Mentoring in Schools Programme is one of many things happening across the country for New Zealand Music Month.<\/p>\n
Through interactive workshops, mentors support teachers while building students\u2019 skills in composition, performance and production, and inspiring future pathways in music.<\/p>\n
New Zealand Music Month features a programme of events, collaborations and community-led activations across Aotearoa throughout May, reinforcing the importance of local music and the spaces that sustain it. <\/p>\n
\u201cFrom Split Enz to Mim Jensen, there is a huge amount of amazing local music happening across the motu during Te Marama Puoro o Aotearoa,\u201d says Cath Andersen of the NZ Music Commission. <\/p>\n
\u201cFrom Aotearoa legends Fat Freddy\u2019s Drop at the [Auckland] Town Hall or emerging stars like Ivy & Pearly* on their co-headline South Island tour, there will be hundreds of opportunities to see amazing sounds in amazing spaces this May.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe\u2019d encourage everyone to get amongst it and support local artists.\u201d<\/p>\n
Crummer was last in Gisborne in September for the Tair\u0101whiti Arts Festival, which she headlined with her dad, Papa Will Crummer, at the War Memorial Theatre.<\/p>\n
Of Cook Island and Tahitian descent, Crummer rose to prominence with the group Netherworld Dancing Toys, whose song For Today won Single of the Year at the 1985 New Zealand Music Awards.<\/p>\n
She was one of the founding members of all-female group When The Cat\u2019s Away, who topped the Kiwi charts with the song Melting Pot and won Group of the Year at the 1989 NZ Music Awards.<\/p>\n
Crummer released her first solo album, Language, in 1992 and won Best Female Artist at the 1993 NZ Music Awards.<\/p>\n
She received a Member of the New Zealand Order of Merit for services to music in the 2017 Queen\u2019s Birthday Honours List.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u201cI love it. I always look forward to learning from them and I must say I was lucky…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":417086,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[1665,57235,806,1863,34726,11586,4596,214332,3806,71,13838,12506,106,3191,2959,3218,296,82521,194,214333,4486,157,214334,111,43,139,1536,69,1118,5202,4062,2242,52300,686,1533],"class_list":["post-417085","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-zealand","tag-advice","tag-annie","tag-as","tag-back","tag-bands","tag-coast","tag-competition","tag-crummer","tag-east","tag-from","tag-girls","tag-gisborne","tag-head","tag-heat","tag-high","tag-icon","tag-into","tag-invaluable","tag-kiwi","tag-mentors","tag-month","tag-music","tag-musos","tag-new-zealand","tag-news","tag-newzealand","tag-next","tag-nz","tag-of","tag-part","tag-school","tag-secondary","tag-smokefreerockquest","tag-week","tag-will"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/417085","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=417085"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/417085\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/417086"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=417085"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=417085"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=417085"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}