Traditional Maori society used music in community ritual and very rarely for entertainment, highlighting a conflict with the western concept of music, says University of Waikato performer and lecturer ...

Maori singer/songwriters Maisey Rika, Rob Ruha and Seth Haapu are joined by Horomona Horo, Aotearoa’s leading practitioner in taonga puoro (traditional Maori instruments) for a pair of performances at ...

A series of concerts this weekend will present an opportunity to hear instruments that most listeners, even serious musicians, never knew existed. Richard Nunns, an expert at playing "taonga puoro" -- ...

Auckland audiences will have a rare opportunity to join master musicians Dr Richard Nunns and James Webster for a two-day workshop exploring taonga puoro - traditional Maori instruments - on Monday ...

Jo'el Komene showed hundreds of children more than 30 different Maori instruments during the week. Photo / Ruth Keber Event organisers are hoping the success of the inaugural Tauranga Moana Matariki ...

Rob Thorne (Ngati Tumutumu, Tainui) is an internationally renowned Maori taonga puoro musician, award-winning composer, and anthropologist, at the forefront of the revival of traditional Maori ...

Musicians Rewi Spraggon and Riki Bennett are among prizewinners in the annual Australasian Performing Right Association’s Silver Scroll awards. The Bethells residents won the Maori music category with ...

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Space to play or pause, M to mute, left and right arrows to seek, up and down arrows for volume. This edition of Into The Music tells the story of a composition some 6 years in the making. That’s if ...

TREASURES STOLEN: Jeremy Cloake holds a nguru rakau matai, left, and purerehua pounamu closely after the carver’s house was robbed of precious Maori instruments. . Photo: LUKE PARKER A TRADITIONAL ...