Children’s acts collaborate for NZ Music Month

Children’s entertainment duo Mr Roberelli, comprising Rob and Jen Wigley will join forces with Em...
Children’s entertainment duo Mr Roberelli, comprising Rob and Jen Wigley will join forces with Em and Me for a NZ Music Month children’s show on May 11. PHOTO: SUPPLIED
Two Dunedin children’s musical duos have teamed up to create an event especially for children, in celebration of New Zealand Music Month.

Award-winning duo Mr Roberelli will join forces with duo Em and Me for the musical event, to be held on Saturday, May 11, from 2pm in the Dunningham Suite, fourth floor, Dunedin City Library.

Local duo Em and Me, comprising Amanda Goodwin and daughter Emery, will come together with Mr...
Local duo Em and Me, comprising Amanda Goodwin and daughter Emery, will come together with Mr Roberelli for a NZ Music Month children’s show on Saturday. PHOTO: SUPPLIED
The highly interactive Mr Roberelli show features original music and has children up bouncing and dancing, singing, dancing, and playing.

Since moving south to Dunedin, songwriter Rob Wigley has been teaming up with his wife Jen to perform the shows that he had been performing with longtime bandmate Paul Depledge.

Mr Roberelli recently collaborated with Levity Beet to produce three co-written singles – The Children on The Train, I’m On My Bicycle, and Catch That Monster Fish.

Em and Me is a new addition to the children’s music scene.

The act is comprised of Amanda Goodwin and her 9-year-old daughter Emery — a regular on Radio Dunedin’s Space Station Kiwi Children’s radio show.

Goodwin and Emery collaborate on writing songs, and released an upbeat album last year. The album entitled 1, 2, 3 Dis-Go!, featured many local musicians such as Brad Martin, Scott Brown and Patrick Frame.

As a music teacher, Goodwin loves to celebrate New Zealand Music Month.

"It’s important that our young people are exposed to Kiwi-made music and taught that New Zealand has lots of good musicians producing great music," she said.

 - Mr Roberelli with Em and Me, Saturday, May 11, 2pm, Dunningham Suite, 4th floor, Dunedin City Library. Entry $5 per person, under 2s free. Tickets via trybooking.com or cash door sales.