Golden ticket competition to woo music fans

Neil Finn. Photo / Supplied

The newly established New Zealand Music Foundation has come up with a dream prize for music fans - two free tickets to almost any local concert for the rest of 2012 and into 2013.

The foundation has organised with the country's major music promoters to give the winners of the draw entry to the shows of their choice from the end of next month until the end of April 2013.

And that includes the November Kiwi music extravaganza to be helmed by Neil Finn (the foundation's patron) and Don McGlashan (one of 10 trustees) which will act as a major fundraiser for the NZMF.

The format for the end of year concert is still being worked on but is likely to follow the style of Finn's past 7 Worlds Collide series of shows.

All folks have to do to attend that show - and as many as they like including international acts at the likes of Vector Arena, as long as the promoters are affiliated to the NZMF - is sign up on the musicfoundation.co.nz website and go into the draw.

The winner will be announced at the end of next month.

Chaired by local music industry heavyweight Campbell Smith, the NZMF is a charitable trust which aims to fund musically themed good works including school programmes, music therapy, and help musicians and music industry workers who have fallen on hard times.

-TimeOut