By TBHS | Posted: Wednesday April 14, 2021
Tuesday 13 April saw our music students combine with Roncalli and Opihi High Schools for a Music Mentoring session.
Since 2001, the Musicians Mentoring in Schools Programme (funded by the Music Mentoring Commission) has connected New Zealand’s top musical artists with emerging young talent in schools from Kaitaia to Invercargill. More than 150 artists have shared their expertise in songwriting, instrumental and vocal technique, recording technology, and music industry insight – including Jon Toogood, Maisey Rika, Anonymouz, Louis Baker, Julia Deans and Troy Kingi.
Tuesday saw Matt Barus working on composition/songwriting with our students. Matt Barus is a freelance songwriter and performer. Currently releasing music as husband-and-wife duo “Terrible Sons”, Matt has been in the Christchurch music scene for nearly 20 years.
As a member/songwriter for The Dukes (2005-2010) Matt’s successes included a top 10 single as well as several Award nominations and NZ tours with Blondie and The Pretenders. His songwriting prowess triggered Chris Stein from Blondie to ask Matt to write songs for Blondie's next album.
Our boys were grateful for this opportunity offered by the Music Commission.
