Phil Garland

| image = Phil Garland QSM (cropped).jpg | caption = Garland in 2014 | birth_name = Philip Humphrey Garland | birth_date = | birth_place = Christchurch, New Zealand | origin = | death_date = | death_place = Hamilton, New Zealand | genre = Folk }} Philip Humphrey Garland (9 February 1942 – 15 March 2017) was a New Zealand folk musician. He was awarded the Queen's Service Medal in the 2014 Queen's Birthday Honours for services to folk music, and was called the "Godfather of New Zealand folk music". He recorded 19 albums, and won the New Zealand Music Awards folk album of the year three times.

Garland died in Hamilton on 15 March 2017, aged 75, and was buried in the Rutherford Street (Woolston) Cemetery, Christchurch. Provided by Wikipedia