CMDA

31/01/2025

⏰Today's the day!
Entries are NOW open!
Go to www.cmda.nz, Apply Now...and grab your Finals Show tickets while you're there!

🤠🎤🤩

30/01/2025

📣 Only ONE more sleep!!!! Entries open TOMORROW! 📣

We’ve heard from a LOT of you that you’re keen to join us!!! Remember…don’t put it off! Spaces are limited, and they fill up FAST! (we have closed entries EARLY in the past!)

So set your alarms ⏰

29/01/2025

3 DAYS until entries open!!!!

Who’s excited?!?! We are!!!!

Don’t forget….Easter Weekend 2025 at the Taieri Bowling Club, Mosgiel is the place to be!!! Whether you enter or come to watch…it’s going to be an amazing weekend of talent!!

27/01/2025

⏰ The countdown is on!!! Only 5 days until entries open!!!

Set your reminders now so you don’t miss out!!!

We’d love to see you there!!!

20/01/2025

With the countdown on for entries to open, the small but mighty CMDA team are working hard to get ready for our 2025 awards!

𝑾𝒉𝒆𝒏 𝒊𝒔 𝒊𝒕? Easter Weekend (18-20 April)
𝑾𝒉𝒆𝒓𝒆 𝒊𝒔 𝒊𝒕? Taieri Bowling Club, Mosgiel
𝑾𝒉𝒂𝒕 𝒔𝒉𝒐𝒖𝒍𝒅 𝑰 𝒌𝒏𝒐𝒘? You can expect another GREAT event, with our fabulously talented backing band ‘Saddle Sore’!
𝑾𝒉𝒂𝒕 𝒂𝒎 𝑰 𝒘𝒂𝒊𝒕𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝒇𝒐𝒓? We’re not sure!!!

Head to our website (cmda.nz) for our 2025 rules, and make sure your alarms are set to get those entries in!

We can’t wait to see you there!

16/01/2025

🌟 Entries Opening Soon 🌟

Save the date and get ready to get those entries in! Don’t put it off…spots are limited, and will fill up fast!

While you wait….warm up those vocals, dust off those chord charts and pick out your best outfit!

Top tip: As it’s Easter Weekend, we recommend booking your accommodation and travel as early as possible!

15/01/2025

It’s a New Year - who’s excited?!?
We’re excited…. to bring you CMDA for 2025! 🍾

So get ready, mark Easter Weekend (18-20th April) on your calendar, and stay tuned for more details coming soon!

11/03/2024

We are pretty sure we have now processed everyone’s refunds for our cancelled 2024 awards. If you have not received yours, please private message or email us so we can check and follow up for you.

We still have a number of trophies that have not been returned from our 2023 winners. These still need to be returned so we can check them off and know they’re all in order for 2025!

Speaking of 2025, we really do not want to be left in the position we found ourselves in this year - with not enough helpers to ensure the event can run efficiently and effectively. If you would be prepared to give us a few hours of your time next year (or more, if you’re as crazy as we are!) to help out and/or are interested in joining the committee, please get in touch. Many hands make light work! We really want to see the 2025 event back on track with all systems go. But for this to happen, we need people power!

And last but not least, we’d like to say a huge thanks to everyone that has been so supportive and sent us such lovely messages. We really appreciate, and are so grateful for, your loyalty, patience and understanding surrounding the sad cancellation of this year’s event . You all rock in the best way! So, here’s to onwards and upwards, and bring on 2025!

03/03/2024

Due to the cancellation of our event, we are currently going through the process of setting up refunds for everyone that had registered for our event. However, could the following people, listed below, please confirm with us, via email, their bank account details so that their Final Show tickets can also be refunded?

** Janet Cornelius, Kristin Cottam, Callan Goodall, Ros Allison, Deborah Wilson, Cath Jennings and Sharon Muirhead.

Thanks in advance!

02/03/2024

It is with deep regret that due to personal circumstances beyond our control we have to announce that our 2024 event has been cancelled.

I am sure you can appreciate this has been an incredibly difficult decision for us to make, and not a decision we have made lightly. However, with an integral member of our committee no longer available for the 2024 awards, we now find ourselves, as a committee, simply spread too thin to ensure we can deliver the awards to the high standard that we have run for the past six years and continue to strive for.

Everyone that entered should have received an email advising of this cancellation. If you haven’t, please check your spam. Notifications were sent to the email address you registered with. As a registered competitor of our 2024 event please be assured your entry fee and any additional purchases will be fully refunded to your registered bank account.
If you do not receive your fees refund within the next two weeks, please email us and we will sort for you as soon as possible.

If you hold an award/trophy from our 2023 event we still need these to be returned as soon as possible.

We very much appreciate your support of our CMDA Awards and hope we can rely on your continued support in the future.

We would also like to acknowledge the understanding and support given to us from our wonderful and loyal sponsors, adjudicators, and the best backing band around, ‘Saddle Sore’. We appreciate you all so much!

15/02/2024

Congratulations again if you were a trophy winner at our 2023 CMDA event. But guess what?! We need these trophies back now!

We are super busy gearing up for our 2024 Awards so it’s now time to ensure that your trophy has been engraved and returned to us no later than Saturday 9th March - although preferably sooner!
The options for returning these trophies are as follows:

Courier or Hand Deliver to our secretary’s home address:

Heidi McGregor
147 Mulford Street
Concord
Dunedin

Or to her Work Address: (Mon-Fri 8am-4:30pm)

Heidi McGregor
Central Machine Hire
Nichols Head Office
Unit 2
14 Teviot Street
Dunedin

Thanks in advance for helping us lessen our stress levels by getting them back quick smart!

09/02/2024

Time is flying by, and our small committee is working hard to ensure another great event! Have you registered yet? Entries can be easily done online through our CMDA website (specific age groups are shown in the photo below). Also, a gentle reminder about returning those trophies! We look forward to seeing you there!

29/01/2024

Entries are now open for our Easter 2024 awards! Head to our website (cmda.nz)to register and purchase finals tickets!
Be warned that we have closed entries early in the past couple of years as our numbers are very strictly limited! Look forward to seeing you there!

04/01/2024

04/01/2024

Happy New Year from all of us at CMDA! Wishing you all a happy, healthy and fun filled 2024! We are already gearing up for this years event which will, once again, be held over Easter from Friday 29th March to Sunday 31st March. Keep a look out for our entries opening on the 29th January and make sure you get your accommodation booked now if you are coming from out of town! You can expect another great event with our amazing backing band ‘Saddle Sore’ and exciting new prizes! Watch this space for all updates.