19/03/2026

New Music Pasifika March 2026 Funding Results

NZ On Air have announced results of the New Music Pasifika March 2026 funding round, with 20 songs by local artists receiving ...

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25/11/2025

Hiva Folau Vaka: Revitalising Pacific Languages in Song

Hiva Folau Vaka - Vaka Carrying Music is a legacy project for the Pacific Music Awards Trust, an album of songs developed ...

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11/04/2025

NZ On Air New Music Pasifika April Funding Results

NZ On Air have announced results of the 10th New Music Pasifika focus round for single-based funding, designed to support ...

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10/01/2024

NewTracks New Artist: Queen Shirl’e

While 'new' isn't quite the right word to describe Tāmaki Makaurau emcee Shirl'e Fruean, aka Queen Shirl'e, she is likely ...

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20/09/2023

Smokefree Tangata Beats 2023 Results

On September 15, Te Whānau Puoro from Flaxmere College and Tamatea High School took first place of Smokefree Tangata Beats ...

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05/08/2022

2022 Pacific Music Awards Winners

Pacific music and musicians were celebrated at the 2022 Pacific Music Awards event held in Manukau on August 4, the first ...

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13/12/2021

2021 Pacific Music Awards Winners

The love was unusually well spread among the winners of the 2021 Pacific Music Awards, though the savage love was appropriately ...

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19/05/2021

Delivering NZ On Air Music’s $7M Plan

On May 29 last year the Prime Minister (and Minister for Arts, Culture and Heritage) announced details of an arts and music ...

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25/02/2021

New Music Pasifika Funding January 2021 Decisions

NZ On Air has announced the New Music Pasifika Funding January 2021 decisions – supporting recording, video content and ...

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