Stories by
Rachel Ashby
Rachel Ashby is a music and culture journalist based in Tāmaki Makaurau, and hailing from Ōtautahi. Formerly presenter of the 95bFM Breakfast Show, she now hosts the music podcast In The Pits from Sports Team productions, and is the Capabilities Programmes Coordinator at the New Zealand Music Commission.
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Turning up the volume on local music
Rachel Ashby from the NZ Music Commission tells us everything we need to know about Music Month. -
Exploding Rainbow Orchestra: A joyful eruption of sound, colour and spectacle unlike anything else
Rachel Ashby speaks to the conductor of an audacious project which brings together 50 musicians, pseudo-orchestral arrangements, shiny rainbow ponchos and a glow stick.