Anna Coddington
Auckland musician Anna Coddington clocked up the frequent flier miles between her adopted home and Dunedin last year, and by the looks of it is set to do likewise in 2012.
Chatting from Auckland, she says time with the whanau was a welcome break over Christmas.
"Raglan for Christmas and Wellington for New Year's. Two of my favourite places."
Well, all but one of the major end-of-one-year, start-of-another music festivals have come and gone, leaving the music industry to continue chugging along, like Thomas the Tank Engine, in a business-as-usual fashion.
One of the many end-of-year music festivals is the Kaikoura Roots Festival, which is returning after a five-year hiatus on Saturday and Sunday, January 14-15.
Wellington band The Golden Awesome have played internationally, and have been around for a couple of years.
South Island musicians are represented strongly in the Best Folk Album category of this year's Tui awards, with acts from Westland, Canterbury and Otago all in the line-up.
True and dedicated fans of "the Dunedin Sound" will have tickets in their clammy palms in anticipation of seeing The Clean at Sammy's tomorrow night, to help celebrate Flying Nun's 30th birthday.
Former Dunedin musician Shayne P. Carter has been one of record label Flying Nun's brightest stars.
The good news is Midnight Youth are touring their new album across New Zealand. Bad news, Dunedinites will have to travel to Christchurch to see them as there is no Dunedin show on the calendar.
One-time Dunedin musician Anthony Lander is to return to town with brand-new band The Blue Onesies.
Wellington supergroup Fly My Pretties returns to Dunedin in the fourth incarnation of the pop-band-cum-travelling-circus.
Next month, legendary New Zealand record label Flying Nun celebrates its 30th anniversary with a host of shows up and down the country.
Dunedinite Julian Temple is a busy man, and he's about to get busier. He's just released his solo album, Nowhere Fast, at a release party at Taste Merchants in Stuart St.
The biannual Rippon Music Festival is on again next year, with a large line-up planned.
Cut Off Your Hands lead singer Nick Johnston says the band has spent an inordinate amount of time on the road recently, enjoying playing in quality company at big festivals.
The Dunedin Celtic Arts Festival concerts at Knox Church include the "Portobello Years" performance tonight, featuring three-time Tui award winner Bob McNeill.
Mirikachinist, pronounced mirror-car-sheen-ist, began honing its sound in winter 2009, when guitarist/vocalist John Sears, drummer Jeremy Mackay, and bassist Slade MacDonald got together.
For non-rugby fans, the Rugby World Cup is good for at least one thing. The Real NZ Roadshow is bringing the Phoenix Foundation to Dunedin for a free show this Friday, September 8.
In a move that is sure to excite fans young and old, the Chills and Dunedinmusic.com have announced the band's first home show in 2011.
Dunedin bands Mountaineater and Left Or Right are double-teaming for a tour of the country, The Frozon and Freezor New Zealand Tour 2011.
The Nudge are a band known for, well, giving it a bit of a nudge, so to speak, frequently, as the above picture of them in animal costumes shows.
