This year’s finalists include Makayla, Huia, and Paige for Best Māori Female Solo Artist and Shane Walker, Haami, and Kings ...

Maori singers Ria Hall, Anna Coddington and Majic Paora will perform a tribute song to the late Dr Hirini Melbourne as part of the National Waiata Maori Music Awards ceremony being held at the Hawke’s ...

For many of us, New Year’s has receded into hazy memories of emptied champagne bottles and long-lapsed resolutions. But for performer and Maori culture expert Ataahua Papa, the holiday looms brightly ...

Whakatane woman, singer/songwriter Maisey Rika, has won four of the nine titles in the Open Section at this year’s National Waiata Maori Music Awards. Rika won the Best Maori Traditional Album, Te Reo ...

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 ...

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 ...

In their hometown of Waipu, New Zealand, guitarist-vocalist Lewis de Jong and his drumming brother Henry found it ordinary to speak both English and their native tongue, Maori. When the siblings (with ...

“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 ...

LAWRENCEVILLE, N.J. – Aubrey Maks of Yardley, a senior in music education and music composition, history and theory, was recently named as one of the five student recipients of Rider University’s ...