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@ruby_fainaa_96

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tāmaki makaurau based, percussionist, music producer, non binary, @nanoise, tangata tiriti, free all oppressed people from imperialism!

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New Dictaphone Blues music coming soon. Quick update and thanks to those that have joined me thus far.
Yay you guys! Yay me! Yay for music!

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I love the @explodingrainboworchestra 🪩
It's my favourite musical event that happens in this country.

Fancy photos by @connorcrawford.nz, non fancy photos by me & @wrenneso on my crappy keychain camera 📸

In November last year I was in a rough spot mentally, and I had the honour of being one of the featured singers for songbook vol. 4, those 4 days of rehearsals and performance brought me out of my funk and introduced me to some of the sweetest and coolest musicians I've ever met.

It was a challenge for this years Jukebox to relearn reading sheet music and try to get my trumpet playing back to where it was when I was 12, but I wouldn't miss being a part of something this cool for the world. I can't wait for a new government and a new arts minister to throw so much cash at @bilbum_baggins to make this the institution that it deserves to be.

Also @henry_the_horn gave me an Outlaws of Thunder Junction copy of Mana Drain. These are two equally significant events.

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Presenting … (almost) the entire @explodingrainboworchestra gang! Now we’re in and setting up at Kiri Te Kanawa Theatre things are feeling very real and very joyful already! See you tomorrow (Sunday) - doors 6.45pm, showtime 7.30pm sharp!

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A little sneaky peek behind the rainbow robe at rehearsals for this Sunday… it’s sounding wild! See you at Kiri Te Kanawa Theatre Sunday evening? The only answer is “of course!”

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We’re performing an unreleased Na Noise track this Sunday with @explodingrainboworchestra

Get your tickets immediately!!! And then just laugh for a while!!!

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🌈✨ With ONE WEEK to go until EXPLODING RAINBOW ORCHESTRA: JUKEBOX OF JOY… we get up close and personal with Na Noise’s Yolanda Fagan to find out what they’ll be performing on that majestic Kiri Te Kanawa Theatre next Sunday 12 July. Time to smash that piggy bank and get yourself a ticket to the show of the year, folks! 🌈✨”…it will be magical” indeed!

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Meet some more of the Exploding Rainbow Orchestra! Ruby is our fearless percussion leader, and is also co-arranging a dramatic rework of a tune from Songbook Vol. 2. Callum is serving double duty on sax and clarinet, as well as reinterpreting his own beautiful arrangement of a Hollie Fullbrook song. We’re very fortunate to have Ben Sinclair back in the saddle, also doubling woodwinds and providing a bold new arrangement of the first song ERO ever performed live! And we’re beyond thrilled to welcome Steph into the band on organ duties, in addition to having her perform one of her incredible songs with us

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A few memories from Neck of the Woods

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Day 5 @explodingrainboworchestra 2025!!! They are doing another round of shows with a stellar lineup. Get your tickets 🌈🌈🌈

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Our cover of a northern Chinese folk song ‘不许他回家‘ at the @aucklandartgallery last weekend. It’s imperfect but so is life :) I love these guys, really wonderful talented people, truly. Thanks @kc.yoo for filming!! Full vid on my youtube.

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New Substack up now! U can read my siiik speech Xo

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Free gigs in Tāmaki this May ❤️‍🩹 excited to be playing again, will be doing a mixture of songs and sets. @aucklandartgallery set will be a more stripped back set. We’ll be playing some old Chinese songs too with drum machine & percs by @tall_ruby_96, @hankt_bass on double bass & @michael.luke.howell on gat. Then excited to be playing in a quartet doing some sexy smooth upside down lounge covers at @goblin_akl , see you there?

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