21/10/2025
Goldsmith Baynes is a project combining the soulful vocals of Allana Goldsmith and jazz piano prowess of Dr. Mark Baynes, well known as a Tāmaki Makaurau-based musician, composer and educator. Critical acclaim for the ...
31/08/2025
Songs From The Shaky Isles - A Short History of Popular Music in New Zealand by Gareth Shute Published by Bateman Books, rrp $40 Musician, journalist and author Gareth Shute brings strong research credentials to this fast-moving ...
18/08/2025
Booked to perform at London’s alternative music showcase venue Café OTO in July, Arts Laureate, vocalist and taonga puoro specialist Ariana Tikao commissioned two new works by another local legend, musician/composer Karl ...
28/07/2025
Otaki-born Ari Leason brings a unique tenderness and soul to her folk music, shaped by a rich and extraordinary upbringing. The emerging artist poetically strings together stories and witnessings from far beyond her years ...
08/07/2025
Inspired to build a legacy, Whanganui whānau band Come On Up perform a heartwarming fusion of reggae, gospel, R&B and soul. Rowie Martin is one of the founding members, and says Come On Up has been impatiently knocking ...
09/08/2021
The national 2021 Waiata Māori Music Awards will be held in Hastings on September 10 and the finalists across the 10 categories have been announced. Previous award winners Troy Kingi, Stan Walker, L.A.B and Tipene Harmer, ...
14/07/2021
Applications are open now for the 2021 Reo Māori Songhubs which will take place over a week, starting September 26, at Tāmaki Makaurau’s Roundhead Studios. Reo Māori SongHubs is a collaborative songwriting wānanga, ...
18/06/2021
Recorded Music NZ has announced that from June 19 Aotearoa will have a new te reo Māori music chart – introduction of the Official Top10 Te Reo Māori Singles of the week. In order to be eligible for the Official Te ...
18/05/2021
In what they believe is a NZ first, local community group Awa Puoro ki te Ao and the Alexander Library Te Rerenga mai o te Kāuru in Whanganui have come together to provide a selection of traditional Māori instruments (taonga ...
11/11/2020
APRA have announced the producers and songwriters who will be taking part in the new Reo Māori SongHubs 2020 programme. The collaborative songwriting wānanga, will bring together experts in music creation and waiata reo ...
23/10/2015
Inflatable dolls & wide-mouth frogs & the spaghetti-sucking pucker! (Vowel shaping, facial anchoring and facial stretches…) Think of your favourite singers… what do they all have in common? That's right, ...
