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  • Music in early New Zealand

    During the last week I’ve been doing some research (for the book) about settlement in New Zealand & was seeking early references to music. I dipped into a very elderly book The Making of a New Zealander by Alan Mulgan, published in 1958. Mulgan was born in 1881. In his book he told of ancestors…

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  • Kiwi Musicians in Oz

    New Zealand musicians are everywhere in Australia. I am most interested in musicians who (after some success) moved from New Zealand to Australia in the years 1959 – 1976. I have begun to write a book about this. It begins with Johnny Devlin who came in 1959 and runs through to 1976 after both Dragon…

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