Have you stood side by side with someone and sung the national anthem? It brings a sense of camaraderie, and that is at the heart of why Christine Argyle has taken the top job at the New Zealand Choral Federation.

Kushana Bush is creating an entirely new style of art. Her works, gouache on paper, draw on an enormous range of styles and epochs from Renaissance fresco to Japanese Shunga woodblock to the  Mughal tradition of Indo-Persian miniatures that inspire Kushana’s name. Old traditions, all of them, but catapulted into the modern world in way that is wholly contemporary and wholly her own.

Uwe Grodd is one of New Zealand’s best-known musicians – not only here but internationally. He's the founding Music Director of the Manukau City Symphony Orchestra which is celebrating 25 years with Fireworks this weekend.

New Zealand soprano Madeleine Pierard is part of an organisation helping to change the opera scene for women and parents.

Kim Pieters has been painting most of her life, under the radar, known only to a few dealers and a few galleries. She popped up in a retrospective in Wellington's Adam Art Gallery before suddenly winning the Waikato's National Contemporary Art Award 2017 for her work The Meaning of Ethics. Her works are now in major collections including the public art galleries of Auckland, Dunedin and Christchurch.

Flow - a new album for string quartet - is a project to link composers from four countries in a joint musical statement on the Taoist / Buddhist theme of ‘flow’.

125 years after women’s suffrage in Aotearoa why does it still take a special  occasion to have female composers works heard?  Young New Zealand conductor Tianyi Lu and the APO's Artistic Administrator Frances Moore join David Morriss to question how far women have come in the music industry and why women's  works are still  so rarely programmed by our major orchestras.

Wellington’s tango group Bravo Ensemble and guest Joel Tortul from Argentina play some tango and samba on Upbeat before their concert tonight at St. Mary of the Angels in Wellington.

Joel Tortul is a virtuoso tango pianist, music arranger and composer who will play his own arrangements of traditional tango, Argentinian folk as well as some of his own compositions at tonight's concert with Bravo’s String quintet.

The group talk with Eva Radich about their love of tango and the diverse folk music styles of Argentina.

In a show set to surprise his fans, comedy legend Bill Murray produced some genuinely funny moments at the Michael Fowler Centre in Wellington last night. Elliott Childs went along.

NZSO Concertmaster Vesa-Matti Leppänen is the soloist for the orchestra's performance of Prokofiev's Violin Concerto No 2 in Dunedin on Friday night and in Christchurch on Saturday.