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" -- ...

Nichola Genn Harris teaches James Hargest College students Ashanti Tawera, 15, and Jayda Edwards, 14, to play traditional Maori instruments (taonga puoro). Photo: Rebecca Moore / STUFF Music can do ...

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 ...

Maisey Rika has performed in Hawaii frequently over the last few years. Here she performs at the Polynesian Cultural Center at a 2012 concert featuring singer Ria Hall, a fellow Maori from New Zealand ...

Rob Thorne would visit schools some 15 years ago with taonga puoro - traditional Maori instruments - and the children would be amazed. It made him wonder why he hadn't learned about instruments such ...

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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 ...