01/09/2018
Warren Maxwell, Senior Lecturer Music and Practice at Massey University’s Bachelor Commercial Music writes about implementing kaupapa Māori into tertiary music teaching. A serendipitous thing happened to me sometime in ...
23/10/2015
Jamie McCaskill sometimes makes up the numbers in the Auckland-based Modern Maori Quartet, a foursome who take a crowd-pleasing, part acting/part-crooning, fun and fresh approach to the territory of the famously popular Maori ...
12/04/2024
The drive and prolific output of Whakatū high school student Alyahna Sanson-Rejouis, featured with her band Jola Burns in NZM's December/January 2024 print issue, is rather remarkable. Aged 15 and now also going solo as ...
25/03/2024
As if Te Matau-a-Maui wasn't already punching well above its weight in the music and arts scene, Flaxmere College and Tamatea High School have just produced Tangata Beats-winning band Te Whānau Puoro. Jasper West catches ...
19/03/2024
Coming from a background of session music and cover gigs, husband-and-wife duo Rā Toia-Booth and Hayden Booth have turned towards performing their original material that come with a chilled-out reggae infusion, under the ...
11/09/2023
Starting off this year's Māori Music Month, finalists for the Waiata Māori Music Awards 2023 have been announced, date and location are yet to be confirmed. Te Tohu Kaipuoru Te Reo Māori - Best Te Reo Māori Album Chey ...
14/04/2023
Reo Māori SongHubs is heading to Te Whanganui-a-Tara in June with applications now open to all APRA NZ members. 2023 Reo Māori SongHubs will be curated by Hāni Dread, reo Māori champion, mentor and former member of reggae ...
07/11/2022
Te Māngai Pāho have announced the recipients of their 2022 Waiata Reo Māori Round 2 funding which is to support the production, release, and promotion of original waiata reo Māori. 2022 Waiata Reo Māori Round 2 Funding Grove ...
23/09/2022
The songwriters, producers, and mātanga reo participating in Reo Māori Songhubs 2022 have been announced, with the vent scheduled to officially kick off on September 26. Four studios in Auckland's Roundhead Studios will ...
21/09/2022
Aotearoa's current heavyweight champs L.A.B claimed another belt of awards at the 2022 Waiata Māori Music Awards, held on September 9, at Toitoi Hawke's Bay Arts & Events Centre in Hastings. The unstoppable band won ...
05/10/2022
I take it back. Last year I did successfully predict the winner of the Silver Scrolls 2021, which went to Troy Kingi. Good for me. Are the batteries in my crystal ball charged for this year? Well, I don’t know, but I will ...
18/03/2022
Yes I know, I never seem to get it right. Even though every year I usually write an article for the X-Factory trying to predict the winner of the Silver Scrolls I haven’t quite managed it yet. Maybe this year will be different, ...
17/03/2021
Acclaimed musicologist Daniel Levitin has argued that songs can be split into six categories according to their evolutional, biological, and cultural purposes (Levitin, 2008). The categories are: Friendship – songs ...
02/09/2020
It almost seems ritualistic now. I see the email announcing the five finalists for this year’s APRA Silver Scroll Award at 6am when I usually get up. I immediately check them all out, intuitively and analytically searching ...
23/05/2018
Multi-award winning group Te Vaka are again amongst the finalist nominees for the 2018 Vodafone Pacific Music Awards, this time with a track entitled Lakalaka. They have previously won a number of major local awards including ...
14/06/2022
Illuminate Matariki will see some of the country's finest piano-based musicians performing a series of innovative twilight concerts held at special locations around Tāmaki Makaurau, all free to the public. Organisers suggest ...
14/06/2022
The Auckland Philharmonia Orchestra will celebrate Matariki with one of our brightest musical stars on Thursday 23 June. Rob Ruha (Te Whanau-a-Apanui, Ngati Porou, Tainui, Ngati Tuwharetoa, Te Arawa, Nga Puhi, Rongowhakaata, ...
20/05/2022
The CubaDupa team has announced a series of art development sessions under the name Whanake Ringapuoro. There will be six free workshops designed to help Wellington-based musicians build industry knowledge and their careers. Weekly ...
24/03/2021
The world premiere of New Zealand Opera’s production of Ihitai 'Avei'a - Star Navigator was rapturously received by a full house at the Vodafone Event Centre in Manukau, Auckland on March 19. Clare Martin went along to ...
24/11/2016
‘ Volume : Making Music in Aotearoa’ has been over two years in development, a joint venture between the Auckland Museum and the NZ Music Hall of Fame. Auckland War Memorial Museum October 2016 – May 2017 ‘Volume’ ...
