Encore! celebrates how live music brings people together through collective experience.
The exhibition looks at ways connection happens through live music: being emotionally moved by a performance, connections between those on stage and those in the crowd, and the feeling of being connected to others in a music community.
This exhibition digs deep into our vast collection of ephemera, sound recordings, archives, photographs and magazines to uncover stories from a selection of central Tāmaki Makaurau venues which have been important to our city’s cultural life.
Encore! explores the traces live music leaves behind, whether it’s the tickets kept from our best nights, the magazines that reviewed our favourite performances, or the recordings we listened to on repeat at home. From these places emerge stories of musicians, promoters, reviewers and fans, creating an evocative picture of what it was like to be there