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Waiata Maori Awards • The awards will include the Maori Music Expo, September 9 and 10, where modern and traditional musicians and composers will offer their advice and experience in a series of ...
Nga Moteatea The Songs: Part Four completes the Nga Moteatea series to provide a very important resource to scholars, teachers and students of Maori traditional music and culture through waiata ...
The world of waiata is a haven where many of us take refuge when the planet seems to have spun off its axis and out of control. Traditional Maori waiata oriori are soulful stories, not unlike all ...
Lorde is not Maori, but she said in a statement that much of her value system comes from traditional Maori principles ... non-Maori artists alike called Waiata / Anthems, to mark the 20 year ...
"The Waiata Maori Music Awards provide a unique opportunity to celebrate both our traditional and contemporary Maori musical artists." Singer-songwriters Rob Ruha, Maisey Rika, Tama Waipara and ...
“Traditional Maori practices associated with the mountain ... The vote was greeted by a ringing waiata — a Maori song — from the public gallery, packed with dozens who had traveled to ...
Several other members of the family then joined the speaker and sang a short Maori welcome song called a 'Waiata'. The bride's aunt would have liked the family to sing a traditional Maori wedding ...
Meghan Markle was given a traditional Maori cloak to protect her during pregnancy ... the group took part in singing folk songs, or waiata, about their history. Meghan and Harry attend a powhiri ...
Upon disembarking they were greeted by the president of the Biennale Paolo Baratta, and welcomed into the new pavilion by a traditional Maori Waiata welcoming song. Once inside there was much ...