Te Arikinui Kuini Nga wai hono i te po welcomed the masses to her first Tūrangawaewae Regatta as Arikinui on Saturday, as the ...

"Māori are very political people," Rawiri Waititi who performed at Te Matatini with new group Te Taumata o Apanui, said.

Te Matatini 2025 will be held at the Bowl of Brooklands in Pukekura Park. Given the unprecedented number of competing teams ...

Te Matatini - the 'Olympics of Kapa Haka' - is the biennial Māori performing arts competition. Te Matatini began life in 1972 as the Polynesian Festival, at the inaugural festival in Rotorua ...

Moses Lahauli and wife Lavinia Williams perform Aint No Mountain (Ashford & Simpson, Marvin Gaye & Tammi Terrell version) at ...

The performance by Te Kapa Haka o Ngāti Ranginui at 8.30am on Wednesday was the first of 14 groups on day two of the preliminary competition, with each group on stage for half an hour. The groups now ...

KAPA O PANGO – THE ALL BLACKS' OWN HAKA In August 2005, before the Tri Nations Test match against South Africa at Carisbrook, the All Blacks performed for the first time 'Kapa O Pango', a new haka for ...

Follow the personal journeys of members of Ngā Tūmanako kapa haka over three years as they train to compete at the Tāmaki Makaurau regional kapa haka competition and Te Matatini.