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NewTracks New Artist

20/12/2022

NewTracks New Artist: Yahyah

Colourful Waikato songwriter Holly Cameron professionally goes by the name of Yahyah, a nickname that stems from nannying in the UK. In early December she released her fifth single, the sizzling Talk It Out, featuring local ...

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NewTracks New Artist

16/09/2022

NewTracks New Artist: Half/Time

You certainly don't need a PhD to write good music (though hey, it would be nice to have those kind of academic smarts, right?), but for Kirikiriroa artist Wairehu Grant the process of thesis writing has led directly to ...

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NewTracks New Artist

05/08/2022

NewTracks New Artist: Four32

Four32's debut single Going Home is a feel-good reggae anthem with influence from classic Kiwi tunes. The six band members come from rural coastal towns throughout the Waikato, forming Four32 through a Rangatahi Māori rōpū. ...

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Interviews

13/07/2022

Te Kaahu: Te Kaahu O Rangi

In 2020 Waikato artist Em-Haley Walker, aka Theia, launched her new musical venture Te Kaahu releasing the single E Taku Huia Kaimanawa. With the 2022 release of the project album ‘Te Kaahu O Rangi’ she navigates themes ...

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NewTracks New Artist

12/05/2022

NewTracks New Artist: Soft Plastics

Wellington three-piece Soft Plastics have embraced a new shoegaze style whilst still paying homage to their garage-pop beginnings. Their ironic latest single Day Job is very relatable, and comes accompanied by a similarly ...

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News

16/09/2019

2019 Waiata Māori Music Awards Winners

Te Kākono, a group of young Māori artists who created the Te Reo compilation album 'Te Kākono’, were major league winners at the 2019 Waiata Māori Music Awards, staged in Hastings on Friday, September 13. In front ...

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News

05/02/2019

Guitar Legend Peter Posa Has Died

Widely heralded as New Zealand's greatest guitarist, Peter Posa passed away at Waikato Hospital on Sunday, February 3, aged 77. A bestselling recording musician more than five decades earlier, Posa made a stunning comeback ...

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News

13/09/2018

Hollie Smith Joins Wintec as Musician in Residence

Hollie Smith has joined Wintec’s School of Media Arts to mentor and teach music students as the Waikato Institute of Technology's first Musician in Residence. “I hope that taking what I’ve learnt, and sharing that ...

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06/06/2017

Whangarei’s Eliza Boom Wins Christchurch Aria 2017

Whangarei soprano Eliza Boom has won the first prize in the Dame Malvina Major Foundation Christchurch Aria 2017. The 23-year-old competed alongside 14 aspiring young opera singers in Christchurch at the weekend, with ...

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27/07/2016

August 2016 Is Māori Music Month

From this year onwards, August will turn into Te Marama Pūoro Waiata Māori - Māori Music Month. The new celebration and awareness month was initiated by Ellison Huata,  the executive director of the Waiata Māori ...

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