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 ...

Pop singer Lorde has released an EP in te reo Maori, the Native language in her home country of New Zealand. Maori artists say that this is just... What Lorde's Te Reo Maori Songs Mean For The Effort ...

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 ...

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 ...

Lorde has re-released a portion of her new album, Solar Power, in the native language of New Zealand. The EP, titled Te Ao Marama (translating to World of Light), features five songs sung in te reo ...

“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 ...

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 / ...

Many languages are under threat. Music is one way to save them For Naomi and Lisa-Kainde Diaz, of Ibeyi, singing in Yoruba, the West African language of their late father's ancestors, was not a choice ...