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Josie Music Award Nomination: Pop/Adult Contemporary Vocalist of the Year
Proud to share that I have been nominated for the @Josie Music Awards Pop/Adult Contemporary Vocalist of the Year!!! Micky and I are in the midst of packing for a week on the road followed by a month working in Wellington NZ, but when we get our next moment of pause we’ll stop and raise a…
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“Manu and the Runaways” – 48 Hour Film Competition Heats
I love a good prompt! I’ve long thought that I might enjoy composing music for film, and this year I got a chance to try my hand. For those unfamiliar, 48 Hours is a global event that happens in more than 100 cities. In each city local Film Teams—from beginners to pro’s–compete to make a…
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NZ Music Month Workshop Livestreams
Creative Northland, Wards MusicWorks and I are excited to be offering four free, diverse music workshops to celebrate NZ Music Month! Check out the schedule above or below (NZST) and come to the in person workshops (6pm) or tune into the livestreams (6:15pm) every Wednesday this month! Tonight’s woorkshop was Singing for Life: Building a foundation for…
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New! Video EPK & Website, Because…
Our first international booking agent – My Lady Agent, Dannii Vallely – in partnership with WOMEX and funding from Creative NZ is booking European tours for five NZ based artists for 2024-2025. I am proud to share that Maggie Cocco Music is one of them. Dannii will be promoting Maggie Cocco’s Science for Sociopaths at an international booking conference…
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Maggie Cocco & Mema Wilda at Leigh Sawmill
You’ve been patiently waiting for so long that you forgot you were waiting. This time last year Mema and I kicked off the 6 week NZ/AUS Elodie Tour with three sets at the famous Leigh Sawmill Cafe. Mema is an up and coming musician in the Auckland music scene with a kick ass band making…
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The Maggie Cocco Band at Fritter Festival LIVESTREAM
Summer sun!!!! We’ve been doing our darndest to get as much of it as possible since we got back to the southern hemisphere. Saturday was perfect for an outdoor festival. Even with all my sunscreening I got a wee bit of sunburn. These are the things that make it okay when the colder weather comes. …
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Analog Tour Recap
It came through on September 10th 2023. Lightning struck at a gig we’d done on November 23rd the year prior. I’d had the sudden urge to turn a regular New Zealand bar gig into a “Thanksgiving Show”. Pseudo American venues had been asking me for “Thanksgiving music” all month – a thing which doesn’t exist,…
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“Just To Be Alive” Single Release: Songwriters 4 Climate Action
“We are alive just as nature is alive; to be here, to be beautiful and strange.” – Melanie Lau “The meaning of life is just to be alive. It is so plain and so obvious and so simple. And yet, everybody rushes around in a great panic as if it were necessary to achieve something…
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Happy Holidays from the Analog Tour
Wishing you all a Merry Christmas day from Buffalo New York!!! We’ve been on the road for 26 days , and with the NZ, SF Pt 1, Nashville, and Michigan legs of the tour now behind us, we’re looking forward to a little RnR & catch up with our families here in the northern hemisphere,…
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Streaming to you live from Detroit
Hey all! So far so good on the Analog tour! We’ve done 4 shows in San Francisco, mastered thee album, ate our weight in food in Nashville, and have landed in Michigan. After a couple days of family time we popped into Aretha’s Jazz Cafe last and did a wee set as a surprise guest…
