​MENTORING: 2018 STAND UP STAND OUT

​The Pacific Music Awards Trust were asked by Stand Up Stand Out (S.U.S.O), Auckland Council’s secondary school music competition, to provide PMA artists as mentors.  The mentors were selected and asked to provide the mentoring sessions for all of the musician and vocalists, confirmed as finalists for S.U.S.O.  One-on-one mentoring provided to the finalists, by PMA artists - providing performance feedback, along with encouragement and motivation - to assist with their preparation for the SUSO finals.   S.U.S.O is an Auckland Council event, with the finalist mentoring sessions taking place  at OMAC, in August, in the weekends leading up to the public live finals event.  The artists confirmed as mentors for 2018 were:  Kings, Bella Kalolo and Mal Lakatani.