Welcome to the New Zealand Home Grown Music site. The Place For New Zealand Bands.

"HOMEGROWNMUSIC" A New Zealand site set up for Bands, Artists, Entertainers, Songwriters etc. The Home Grown Music Site has been established to provide a showcase of Kiwi Bands, Artists, Entertainers, Songwriters and people in other areas offering a solution, by PROVIDING THE STAGE to get free promotion of their music, themselves to let the world know about their talent.

There are two types of Membership: ( Membership is FREE )

(1)"MEMBER ACCOUNT" (Fans, Listeners etc) For fans of  Bands, You can create your own Web page, Blog, Radio Station etc. Our Space is Your Space.

(2)"ARTIST ACCOUNT" For Bands, Artists, Entertainers, Songwriters and others in the New Zealand music industry ( We will activate your account once we have verified who you say you are ) Click the orange "READ MORE" button below to give you more information of what you get by becoming an Artist member of HOME GROWN MUSIC.

LINKS: If you would like your business to feature on the site or LINK to this site contact us at listen@homegrownmusic.co.nz giving a brief out line of what you are about, and a contact phone number .

ARTIST MEMBERSHIP

Before you start - FIRST things FIRST: You must own the copyright for the sound recordings or have the authority or permission from the owner(s). If you didn't write the song/composition, then you must find out who the copyright owners are, and pay the publisher their mechanical royalties for uploading the music songs on this site.You are fully responsible for all music etc on your Home Grown Music web page.

IF YOU HAVE NOT GOT PERMISSION - THEN DON'T PUT IT ON HERE.

After all that - If you feel you have the potential to make it big in the music scene then the first step to take - is to become a member of THE HOME GROWN MUSIC SITE - to get your music listened to - today . As a Member, you get for Free ( Note this may change in the future as the site grows and the running of the site becomes more costly - but for now its out of my pocket so you get ) : **Your own personal URL Web page, (www.Homegrownmusic.co.nz/your band.) We give you the facility to become known in the NZ music world - but you need to network and tell everyone you can about your webpage on the the HomeGrownMusic site. (add the link on your bands business cards even) You can link to your own website and/or your Facebook etc. ( And how about a reciprocal link back ? put a link to www.HomeGrownMusic.co.nz from your Website Facebook page?)

By the way how many of your Facebook "please be my friend" friends will be jumping on a plane any time soon to listen to you play down here in NZ?

Home Grown Music is where you can create a "LOCAL FAN BASE" and guess what! These local Fans are the people that actually can and will attend your gigs. You also get :**Disk space where you can post your original creations online to share with friends , family, and fans. **You can also control access with individual passwords. **A personal Photo Gallery, **A blog space to tell the world about yourself. **Audio format MP3 for streaming and/or downloading, NOTE: ( The maximum Megabites that can be loaded per song is 2MB ( Home Grown Music does not control this situation. It is controlled by the owners of the servers ) but you can load as many as you can get into your space as long as they are no more than 2MB each. You will see how many MB you have available. ) **If you wish, your music is automatically played through the Sites Radio Station. **Or you can even create your own Radio Station, **Set up your own FAN STORE and sell Caps, Tee Shirts, Cds etc. even Tickets to your Gigs. **Through the Artists Event Calendar you can tell everyone of your next upcoming gig or party. **Get visitor Comments and statisics on what fans are listening to, including detailed statistics on the number of plays. ** You can have contact with your fans through email and promote your band and Gigs to your Fans. **Showcase your Music Videos** It is all here at Home Grown Music.co.nz - The Home for Kiwi Bands Artists Entertainers and Songwriters.