Apanui-Barr, a fellow reo Māori singer-songwriter, says they first connected through He Pounamu, a 1990s Māngai Pāho compilation of reo Māori waiata, and remained close ever since. Their last ...

Music correspondent Dave Wilson talks about the contribution made to music in Aotearoa by Toni Huata, who has passed away. Huata was a champion of Maori music and te reo, and released much of her ...

Huata was known as a powerhouse of contemporary reo Māori music, fusing elements of jazz, soul, and Māori sounds while ...

AUCKLAND, New Zealand, Feb. 9 (Xinhua) -- The 2025 "Happy Chinese New Year" Carnival brought cultural festivities to Grey Lynn Park in Auckland on Saturday. Organized by the China Cultural Center in ...

The bill’s architect, David Seymour, met with protests at Waitangi marae — a Māori meeting house — during speeches by ...

The national holiday marks the 1840 Treaty of Waitangi between Maori chiefs and colonising British forces, widely seen as the birth of modern New Zealand.

A bill aimed at ending long-standing rights from the indigenous population has fuelled this year’s heated events.

For a band whose underlying mission was to address ideas about what this country could be, there could not have been a more ...

The legal recognition acknowledges the mountain’s theft from the Māori of the Taranaki region after New Zealand was colonized ...

Review: Music in Parks Monte Cecilia, with Albi and the Wolves, South for Winter, Aro, and Marmalade, at Monte Cecilia Park, ...

More than 30 different ethnic groups presented traditional music and dance with their own national characteristics and cultural diversity in the New Z ...