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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…

  • 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. …

  • 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,…

  • “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…

  • 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,…

  • 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…

  • Like A Moth – Vinyl & CD Pre-Sales

    Last week I performed three of the most beautiful and powerful shows of my life. Unedited livestream Part I & Part II  Tomorrow, Micky and I fly stateside for the US leg of the Analog Tour and first trip home in 5 years. Today, Vinyl & CD pre-sales are now available for Like A Moth…

  • Analog Tour + Livestream + Album Update

    THE ALBUM IS FINISHED! Like A Moth by Maggie Cocco’s Science for Sociopaths took 18 months to record and 3+ years to develop. It is my first self produced album (with input from trusted partners), first analog album, and the best thing I’ve ever done. To recap a history of the project till now, Like…

  • Unauthorized Duet with Anna Coddington: “Purea Nei”

    For the past year my only goal with the Giant Drop In Choir Whangarei has been to keep it ticking over until it’s beloved choir director Zoe returns from a year’s sabbatical in UK. Before she left I studied her methods and repertoire with the intent of keeping things as “business as usual” so that…

  • On Meaningful Creativity – Maggie Cocco for Canvas Rebel Magazine

    “We caught up with the brilliant and insightful Maggie Cocco a few weeks ago” …I don’t know about all that, but I do know that I’m deeply grateful to Canvas Rebel for yet another opportunity to wax rhapsodic about what meaningful creativity and alignment looks like through this lens! Full text below. Click the link…