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Rachel Ashby

Rachel Ashby is a music and culture journalist based in Tāmaki Makaurau, and hailing from Ōtautahi. Formerly presenter of the 95bFM Breakfast Show, she now hosts the music podcast In The Pits from Sports Team productions, and is the Capabilities Programmes Coordinator at the New Zealand Music Commission.

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Exploding Rainbow Orchestra: A joyful eruption of sound, colour and spectacle unlike anything else
- By Rachel Ashby
- 28 October, 2025
Rachel Ashby speaks to the conductor of an audacious project which brings together 50 musicians, pseudo-orchestral arrangements, shiny rainbow ponchos and a glow stick.

Stories by Rachel Ashby

Exploding Rainbow Orchestra: A joyful eruption of sound, colour and spectacle unlike anything else

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Stories by

Rachel Ashby