31/12/2025
By now 15 years into a prolific and diverse career, Rei has captured the hearts of many with his smooth voice, ambitiously energetic performances and bilingual Māori wit. The Auckland urban/electronic musician, rapper, singer, ...
25/11/2025
Hiva Folau Vaka - Vaka Carrying Music is a legacy project for the Pacific Music Awards Trust, an album of songs developed to highlight and aid the revitalisation of at-risk Pacific languages. The 22-track compilation ...
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 ...
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 ...
28/09/2020
In a year of changes that's including multiple changed event dates and changed event modes, Recorded Music NZ have announced a major rebrand of their annual NZ music awards ceremony – to become the Aotearoa Music Awards. Sarah ...
17/09/2020
Appropriately timed in the middle of Māori Language Week, Irirangi te Motu/NZ On Air and Te Māngai Pāho have announced the launch of Waiata Takitahi, the two agencies’ first official music funding collaboration. Opening ...
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 ...
14/05/2020
It's not too late to register interest for Tūhonohono, a new experimental funding round Te Māngai Pāho are organising. With Tūhonohono, TMP are looking to support artists to both write new songs and collaborate. This ...
11/03/2020
The deadline for Te Māngai Pāho's final music funding round of the 2019-20 financial year has been extended to March 20. In this round, TMP is particularly interested in waiata for iwi radio targeting rangatahi audiences ...