Kiwi music acts fail to inflate Parachute

Tuesday, February 4th, 2014

It looked as if Parachute’s dumping major American bands in favour of New Zealand artists didn’t pay off this year.

Festival founder Mark de Jong had told Fairfax Media earlier in the month there had been a change in the Parachute ethos this year as the average young Christian didn’t listen mostly to Christian music any more.

“There’s a deliberate move to not have some of the traditional artists we have had in favour of much higher-profile commercial New Zealand artists.”

Bands like US-based Casting Crowns and Third Day lost out headlining to New Zealand artists Stan Walker and Dave Dobbyn.

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