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  • Just To Be Alive: Song for Awhiworld

    Just To Be Alive: Song for Awhiworld

    Awhiworld BIOS project gets international and local artists tuning into Whangarei Art Museum I am honored to have been invited to collaborate with Awhiworld and ThoTho on this inspiring lab/exhibition on the cutting edge intersections of art, technology, and nature. Think bio plastics, 3D printing, parallel realities, bio receptivity, E textiles…the scope and potential of…

  • Lifestock Lessons: The Water Is Wide

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  • The Elodie Tour – Australia

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  • Podcast: Northland Artists Conversation with Maggie Cocco

    Podcast: Northland Artists Conversation with Maggie Cocco

    Mark Kelly and I were both deliriously tired when we recorded so I think we were both surprised at how organically entertaining and deep this got! So entertaining, in fact, that it’s easily one of their longest (and currently most listened to) podcasts. I’m chalking it up to Mark’s affable interview skills 🙌 I’m an…

  • New Zealand & Australia TOUR ANNOUNCEMENT

    New Zealand & Australia TOUR ANNOUNCEMENT

    The Elodie Tour Press Kit READ FURTHER FOR INVITE-ONLY SHOWS *NOT ON POSTER* IN WELLINGTON, AUSTRALIA I’ve been buzzing away and oh, the honey is sweet! Vocals and piano for LIKE A MOTH are completely tracked. Upon my return from this next excursion, we’re heading into mixing! …I think I angered Dear February when I…

  • Dear February

    Dear February

    February, we need to talk. It’s been over a month since I last wrote to my patrons and it seems like I’m only getting a chance now because January flooded my plans along with much of Auckland. I haven’t quite got the hang of work-life balance with you as a time, place, and season yet.…

  • Maggie Cocco at Common Room Hastings: Full Show

    After two years of immersion in folk music here in NZ I think I’m getting the hang of it! Watch this impromptu opening set for Bill Angus. It’ll take a bit more experience yet to be fully comfortable in this genre, but damn this felt good! Even (or especially) due to a couple hours notice…

  • Music Education: How to cover a song without mimicking the original artist

    The amazing Laura Yakas posed this query, and it’s an important one! Here are some exercises I do with my students to help break away from the original and develop your own unique approach to any song🎙 #voicelessons #singing #findyourvoice Once you’ve broken free of the impulse to mimic an OA (original artist), you’re on…

  • Thanksgiving with Maggie Cocco Music

    Maggie Cocco & Matt Shepherd at Roost, Thanksgiving 2022 I’ve been enjoying curating setlists for special events lately. When Roost (an American inspired restaurant in NZ) asked me to play “authentic American Thanksgiving music” for their first annual Thanksgiving dinner, I had to give it a think. As my fellow Americans know, there isn’t really…

  • Wales v New Zealand Women’s Rugby World Cup Half Time Show feat Maggie Cocco Music

    Wales v New Zealand Women’s Rugby World Cup Half Time Show feat Maggie Cocco Music

    A bao bun, some chippies, a waltz around the arena, and it’s dusk. New Zealand has an insurmountable lead over Wales at half time. The crowd has doubled to an impressive 16,500+ and the happy carnival-like atmosphere has intensified. I am calm. It’s just a gig. This is what I was born for. I’ve never…