24 Apr 2023

NZ on Air leads 'a cultural shift' with new music fund for Pan-Asian artists

From Here Now, 5:00 am on 24 April 2023

A new music fund from NZ on Air will soon be open to Kiwi musicians and artists of pan-Asian descent.

In this episode of Voices, Kadambari Raghukumar talks to some of the arts practitioners who helped get the New Music Pan-Asian fund up and running.  

The Auckland band Yoko-Zuna

The Auckland band Yoko-Zuna Photo: Supplied

This conversation features Yee Yang 'Square' Lee of SquareSums&Co, Swap Gomez of Yoko-Zuna, Clarissa Chai from the education programme Asians in Music, and Teresa Patterson, Head of Music at NZ on Air.