The executive director of the 2010 Waiata Maori Awards (Maori Music Awards) Tama Huata has welcomed news a Maori Music Chart will be set up to play across the country’s 21 iwi radio stations. He is ...

Influential Maori musicians of past and present largely unrecognised for their contribution to Maori music are profiled in an inspiring new documentary series on Maori Television. UNSUNG HEROES OF ...

A total of 20 finalists have been named to contest the ninth instalment of the annual National Waiata Maori Music Awards in Hawke's Bay. Howie Morrison Jnr is one of the first-time finalists to be ...

MAORI MUSIC: Musician Rob Ruha shares indigenous consciousness through te reo Maori and music. He was a keynote speaker at the Pae Tawhiti - Beyond the horizon: Maori education leadership conference ...

When Dame Hinewehi Mohi performed the National Anthem in te reo Maori at Twickenham at the 1999 Rugby World Cup she took sparked a national conversation about culture and identity. Then in 2019, to ...

MUSIC MAN: Rob Ruha, receives one of his three awards, best traditional Maori album for his work Pumau. PHOTOS/DUNCAN BROWN Gisborne singer-songwriter Rob Ruha strolled down the red carpet three times ...

“Waiata/Anthems,” Lorde’s “Te Ao Marama” EP and a host of other projects are aimed at revitalizing the Indigenous language of New Zealand via music. By Brian Ng In August, Lorde released her third ...

The 2025 Waiata Māori Music Awards honoured a new wave of Māori musicians, with standout wins for the Tuari Brothers, Makayla Purcell-Mainini and songwriter TAWAZ. Roots group Corrella and hip hop ...

To international audiences, Marlon Williams’ songs are the highway stop after Roy Orbison’s Texas and Chris Isaak’s California. But the Maori musician, one of Aotearoa’s most successful musical ...

Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. The stage of the Lyric Wintergarden Theatre on Saturday had been converted into an exquisite setting for the songs and dances of ...

Kahurangi Maori Dance Theatre, performing at the Takitimu Festival in Hastings in 2012. The group will again open this year's Waiata Maori Music Awards, September 11.Waiata Maori Music Awards / ...