09/05/2012
It's been a hell of a year for many Christchurch folk and a hell of a busy one for the Christchurch folk musicians involved with Lyttelton band The Eastern. In the aftermath of the February earthquake main man Adam McGrath ...
14/12/2010
Now closing in on 70, Max Merritt was a genuine pioneer of rock in Australasia who scaled numerous previously unknown peaks and continued a successful stage career across four decades and as many territories. John Dix, in ...
09/07/2006
Released in 1994, ‘Te Kū Te Whē’ by Hirini Melbourne and Richard Nunns was an album Rattle Records initially thought would fall under the radar. It ended up being their biggest seller, selling gold, an achievement that ...
07/07/2006
Rattle Records was established in 1992 by three friends - lovers of European jazz, contemporary classical and world music. The avant-garde-bent label was set up as an outlet for local artists producing the kind of music Tim ...
06/06/1994
The Fuemana family could sound like your stereotyped Polynesian New Zealanders. You know the sort of thing: father from Niue, mother Māori from the Taranaki; brought up in central then south Auckland; steeped in church; ...
31/03/2016
Ara Institute of Canterbury was announced on March 30 as Canterbury's new vocational educational provider, in dawn services at campuses in Christchurch and Timaru. Ara, meaning arise or pathway in te Reo Māori, is the ...
28/08/2007
Musician Richard Nunns has been awarded $6000 by the Lilburn Trust for outstanding services to New Zealand music. A living authority on taonga puoru (Maori traditional instruments), Nunns has been described as one of New ...
