Sir Howard Morrison joins ROCKONZ Hall of Fame

                                            Media release – May 5, 2010

 
Sir Howard Morrison among 10 new inductees into the ROCKONZ Hall of Fame

 
The late Sir Howard Morrison will be among the latest musicians to be inducted into the ROCKONZ Rock Hall of Fame.

ROCKONZ will be celebrating the achievements of the latest group of New Zealand performers who are to be inaugurated into the ROCKONZ Hall of Fame at a gala event in Christchurch on May 14.

This year’s Hall of Fame inductees are members of the band Dragon; Mark Williams, voted top NZ entertainer two years in a row in the 1970s; Eddie Low, NZOM, Benny Award winner, country music award winner; Sir Howard Morrison (posthumously to be accepted by Toni Williams, a member of the Howard Morrison Quartet); and Graham Wardrop, top NZ guitarist.

The NZ Spinal Trust is again the charity for this year’s Hall of Fame inductee event which will be held at the Chateau on the Park. Christchurch mayor Bob Parker will present the awards.

Dragon - Todd Hunter, Peter Drummond, Mark Williams, David Reid, Robert Taylor, Kerry Jacobson and Marc Hunter (posthumously) – are already included in the Australian Aria Hall of Fame.

The first ROCKONZ Hall of Fame awards were held in Christchurch in 2007. The Hall of Fame event annually showcases artists who reached and maintained the highest standards in the New Zealand rock music industry since the 1950s.

The Hall of Fame award night is part of the ROCKONZ Festival which runs May 9 to 16 and all part of New Zealand music month. The main ROCKONZ Concert is on May 15 with Dragon performing.

A painting by a leading Christchurch artist Ira Mitchell-Kirk and Brendon McCullum’s cricket bat,

Eddie Lowe’s shirt he wore on the cover photo of his greatest hits album, a Johnny Devlin and the Tornadoes signed T shirt, $10,000 of radio advertising and Southern DC3 scenic flights will be auctioned to raise funds for the spinal trust’s Allan Bean Centre.

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