Te Whare Puoro is Back and Louder Than Ever

Te Whare Puoro is buzzing once again with the sound of hundreds of musicians and we are LOVING it. We have over 130 students in Year 12 and 13 alone! This means our little building is very full, but it also means you can look forward to a lot of excellent music to listen to, and also come and watch this year.

Be sure to follow our instagram for updates – wscw_puoromusic

Big thanks to Benaiah Su for starting the fun with our first lunchtime gig in the quad last Wednesday. You can find more of his original music on Spotify – check him out! We look forward to many more of these gigs.

Speaking of original music – the two students who made it to the finals of the Play It Strange songwriting competitions last year have their singles out on Spotify for your listening pleasure:
Atawhai Te Maapi Pene – Karma’s Got the Gun
Henri Woodley – Fade (this song is being featured on Shortland Street soon)

Just a reminder we have a number of groups that are available to all Springs-Waiōrea students: Choir, Musical Theatre Ensemble, Chamber Orchestra, Jazz Band and Baby Band. We are also hoping to start a beginners Guitar Group and Drum Group soon.

Our lunchtime practice rooms are also open again for all our students. There is a form to fill in on our website or music google classrooms and then anyone is welcome to come and make music.

Information about our groups, rooms, courses, lessons etc can all be found on our music department website – https://sites.google.com/wsc.school.nz/wscwpuoromusic/home

Things to look forward to:
The Musical!!!!!
Our Musical Theatre Ensemble is working hard to create an original musical which we will perform later this year. Full of great new tunes and terrible jokes so should be a fun time for all.

Music Month in May
We will celebrating all month long with gigs, events, Music T-Shirt Day, guest speakers and more!

Rockquest and Tangata Beats
Entries are open so if hurry up, start a band, make a song then fill in the form. All entries get sent a form for the Head of Music so forward the forms to wrightc@wsc.school.nz and we will get them signed for you.

Me raupā aku ringa, kia ao aku wawata.
My hands need to be calloused if my dreams are to come true.

So let’s get to work!

Team Puoro – Carmel, Victoria, Margaret and Dan