06/06/2025
As one of six rangitahi who featured in the 2021 Crescendo Trust music mentoring docuseries The Collective, Iris G publicly revealed plenty of her back story, in particular the loss of her voice in 2017 due to the trauma ...
14/05/2025
The 2025 Taite Music Prize ceremony held in Tāmaki Makaurau mid-April was memorable for several reasons. One of significance was the prevalence of Māori winners, with Mokotron taking out the night’s main award. Perhaps ...
01/04/2025
A product of the TikTok school of unexpectedly good fortune, Makayla is a vivacious and very natural 21-year old, albeit one with a far from average story. Engineer by day, singer by night, her debut single Nature of Love was ...
19/02/2025
Shivers believe in playing genre fluid music, but it’s easiest to describe the Pōneke four-piece as being a soul-pop group bringing positive and uplifting vibes. Composing infectious melodies they also pride themselves ...
05/09/2024
Bringing her music to the world out of Ōtaki on the Kapiti Coast, multi-instrumentalist Gigi Crayford artistically goes by the simple artist name of Hine. Self-described as "mokopuna of the once dubbed Crayford jazz dynasty” ...
12/10/2020
Due to the continuing threat of Covid-19 the 2020 Waiata Māori Music Awards event was staged online on Friday, October 9. L.A.B further illustrated their recent dominance of the local scene with four major awards for 2020 ...
18/09/2020
There's a good chance that a bunch of very talented and photogenic tamariki might steal the 'show' at the 2020 Waiata Māori Music Awards. Māori Television series stars Te Nūtube are finalists in four categories on the ...
17/09/2020
Applications are now open for Reo Māori SongHubs, a collaborative songwriting wānanga presented by APRA AMCOS with the support of Te Māngai Pāho. The inaugural Reo Māori SongHubs will bring together experts in music ...
16/09/2020
APRA NZ have decided to cancel plans to hold their annual live event at the Auckland Town Hall on October 14, and will instead take the 2020 Silver Scroll Awards ceremony online. ‘After much discussion, contemplation, ...
10/02/2020
While RNZ finds itself in the middle of a bunfight over the future of Concert FM, Te Māngai Pāho has begun consultation on the development of its National Māori Music Strategy. A series of nine hui are taking place across ...