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Other Links: Last Updated: 26 August 2017
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Martin Curtis, New
Zealand Singer and Songwriter, lives in Cardrona in
the foothills of the Southern Alps, a place that has become the inspiration
behind much of his music. He has been writing and
singing songs about his adopted country for over 30 years, and has recorded
and released 10 albums, many of them celebrating New Zealand and the people
who helped make it what it is today. He has toured extensively nationally and
internationally – particularly in the United Kingdom – as well as Australia,
Hong Kong, Austria, Norway and even Nepal. December 2003 saw the
release of his first DVD called Otago My Home. This is a
project that Martin was working on for some considerable time with a
professional cameraman from Wanaka. This is a video of some of his Central
Otago material, and is set and filmed in the very surroundings that inspired
the songs. One of Martin’s recent
endeavours has been presenting his successful Lets
Sing a Kiwi Song programme to school students throughout New Zealand as
well as overseas. If you would like to
know more, browse the links on the left, or alternatively contact Martin. LATEST NEWS: 2017: Martin’s latest studio album Where the Peaks meet
the Skies has just been released in 2017 and is another
collaboration between him and long time
friend and musician Graham Wardrop. As with all his previous albums the
overlying theme is material about New Zealand, with a few songs about other
parts of the planet that Martin also loves dearly. 2015: To coincide with the centenary
of the Gallipoli landings, we have finally had the album The Daisy Patch
remastered and released on CD. This album was only ever produced in cassette
form in 1990 and yet was a finalist in the Pepsi New Zealand Music Awards
(now known as the Tui awards). The title track is
Martin’s tribute song to the New Zealanders who fought in this disastrous
campaign. 2013: New double-CD of live
material: Live at Greendale released
November 2013. 2013: Martin’s original best-selling
album Gin &
Raspberry has been digitally remastered and is now available on CD.
This album is considered a classic in New Zealand folk music history and
orders are already coming in from fans whose vinyl or cassette copies are
worn out!
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