Mike Harding (New Zealand)

Mike Harding (New Zealand)

Mike Harding is a well-known[1] New Zealand folk musician born in 16 July 1952,[2] now living in New Plymouth, Taranaki.[1]

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Biography

Musician

Growing up in Eketahuna, Harding practised his music in "the streets, markets and clubs of Auckland in the early 1980s", before he describes himself as having spent a "Time on the Road" decade all over New Zealand and parts of Australia and Britain.[3] In 1998 he created his tenth recording, "Past to the Present", described by Radio New Zealand as a "20 track exploration of NZ from north to south, its people and places, past and present."[1] and his first record available on CD. In 2008, he followed it by "Here we have a land", with a selection of New Zealand folk songs and his own original creations.[3]

Mike Harding has played at the Auckland Folk Festival several times, especially in the 1990s,[4] was a top performer at the Marlborough Folk Society's concerts in Blenheim,[5] as well as playing at other music festivals like New Plymouth's "TSB Bank Festival of Lights".[6] Since about 1995, Mike Harding also plays on and off as guitarrist of the Gumboot Tango band, appearing regularly at events like the Taranaki International Arts Festival.[7]

Music historian

In 1992 he also wrote "When the Pakeha Sings of Home", a source guide to the folk and popular songs of New Zealand, described as important in raising the profile of a little-studied part of New Zealand popular music history.[8][9]

References

  1. ^ a b c "Music - Seasonal Catalogue". Radio New Zealand. http://www.radionz.co.nz/replayradio/catalogue/music. Retrieved 2009-10-14. 
  2. ^ "Mike Harding (person entry on Puke Ariki, media database)". http://vernon.npdc.govt.nz/search.do?id=10966&db=person&view=detail&mode=1. Retrieved 2011-01-03. 
  3. ^ a b "Biography". from the official Mike Harding website. http://www.mikeharding.co.nz/biography.php. Retrieved 2009-10-14. 
  4. ^ "History". Auckland Folk Festival. http://www.aucklandfolkfestival.co.nz/the-festival/history.html. Retrieved 2009-10-14. 
  5. ^ "Swan song for folk society". The Marlborough Express. 8 April 2010. http://www.stuff.co.nz/marlborough-express/arts-entertainment/3557305/Swan-song-for-folk-society. Retrieved 6 November 2011. 
  6. ^ "Mike Harding". Festival of Lights website, New Plymouth District Council. 2008. http://www.festivaloflights.co.nz/detail.asp?item_id=272. Retrieved 2009-10-14. 
  7. ^ "Gumboot Tango's Kiwi sound". Taranaki Daily News. 27 July 2011. http://www.stuff.co.nz/entertainment/music/5340418/Gumboot-Tangos-Kiwi-sound. Retrieved 6 November 2011. 
  8. ^ Les Cleveland (1998). Les Cleveland: six decades : message from the exterior. pp. 20. http://books.google.co.nz/books?id=Uzq0wOzE3HQC&pg=PA20&dq=%22When+the+Pakeha+Sings+of+Home%22&hl=en&ei=5Q22TrXiLemiiAfctPmRAg&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=2&ved=0CDAQ6AEwAQ#v=onepage&q=%22When%20the%20Pakeha%20Sings%20of%20Home%22&f=false. Retrieved 6 November 2011. 
  9. ^ "In Search of Native Song - Traditional Folksong Collecting in New Zealand (Article MT133 of Musical Traditions Internet Magazine)". http://www.mustrad.org.uk/articles/nz_songs.htm. Retrieved 2009-10-14. 

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