“Summer Frequencies festival will be managed by a team of experienced event professionals who are committed to safety, strong governance and providing excellent service and experience for all,” a Mission spokesman said.
The festival would include a range of music, including acoustics, reggae, cultural, RnB and Hip-Hop.
As well as well-known rapper Scribe, also on the bill is Majic, a female roots reggae artist from Aotearoa.
She was the first female from NZ to ever record at TUFF GONG Studios, at the age of 16 years old.
Majic has toured NZ with artists like Katchafire, Ria Hall, Annie Crummer, Betty-Anne Monga, Whirimako Black, The House of Shem, Tomorrow People, Three Houses Down, J Boog, and the Common Kings. Majic has also performed alongside internationals such as Julian Marley.
Majic has showcased her music at major NZ reggae events such as East Coast Vibes and Raggamuffin — as well as international events in Hawaii, The MayJahRayJah, and at California’s oldest Reggae Festival, Reggae On The River.
Another act is Jaro Local, a singer/songwriter from the Solomon Islands, who is a fast-rising star around the Pacific making waves internationally with his unique blend of modern island music.
It should be no surprise that Jaro Local is making music that is resonating with island music fans from all over the world, as he grew up watching and learning from one of the very best — his father Solomon Islands’ music legend ‘Sharzy’, one of the first artists whose music spread across the South Pacific in the 90s and early 2000s.
Jaro began his own musical journey when he was a teenager by joining island urban boy band Dezine with his cousins Sean Rii and Santana.
Keen to step out on his own, Jaro Local went solo in 2016 and has reached new musical heights winning Rookie of the Year, Song of the Year and South Pacific Artist of the Year awards at the PNG Music Awards in 2017. Performing in sold out tours across the Pacific and internationally in Australia and NZ, Jaro has achieved over 16 million-plus streams of his music across digital platforms.
In 2019 he won the ‘Best International Pacific Artist’ of the year award at the Vodafone Pacific Music Awards, and with a new EP on the way and more exciting projects in the pipeline, the future looks bright for Jaro Local.
More announcemnts on acts will follow.
