Thursday, 13 May 2021, 9:33 am | IA Music In an ambitious undertaking, Māori music collective ‘IA’ have teamed up with
Te Toki Waka Hourua to create a live music film which is a first of its kind. The
band collaborated with Te Toki and film Director Moehau Hodges Tai to capture a live . More
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Thursday, 13 May 2021, 9:33 am
In an ambitious undertaking, Māori music collective
‘IA’ have teamed up with Te Toki Waka Hourua to create a
live music film which is a first of its kind. The band
collaborated with Te Toki and film Director Moehau Hodges
Tai to capture a live performance featuring taonga
pūoro/traditional Māori instruments while sailing the
traditional waka on the open ocean.
The intention for
the live performance on the waka was to showcase IA’s
latest single titled Kōkōrangi released May 13. Featuring
the voices of the traditional Kōauau (bone flute) and Ponga
TVNZ
A robbery and a drug deal gone wrong sets off a chain of events in local drama Vegas.
Actor Eds Eramiha hopes the message conveyed in the new local drama series
Vegas is one that resonates with viewers. “I find that, really, this is about hope,” says the actor who has appeared in
The Dead Lands and The Legend Of Baron To’a. “There is hope that we can get out of these struggles of drugs, the whole game and what it’s all about.”
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In the drama Vegas, Eds Eramiha plays Kingi Duncan, a gang leader who is guiding his people away from a life of drugs.
TVNZ
A robbery and a drug deal gone wrong sets off a chain of events in local drama Vegas.
REVIEW: Waitoki – the town where things get steamy. That’s the barely fictionalised backdrop for TVNZ’s latest Kiwi drama
Vegas (which debuts on TVNZ2 tonight, Monday, at 8.30pm). Filmed entirely in Rotorua, the $6.4m budgeted, six-part series is based on Ray Berard’s 2015 novel
Inside the Black Horse. A potent cocktail of a tale involving debts, drugs, gangs and two disparate brothers, it revolves around the build up to and fallout from the life-changing events of a single night. It was supposed to be the evening when Te Toki ended their reliance on meth sales to find their activities. When one last deal would give them enough money would allow them to buy back some of their ancestral land and give themselves “a place to stand”. Where newly appointed leader Kingi (Eds Eramīha) could prove his mana to the doubters, especially those who believe their former head Waka (
Te Toki Voyaging Trust is sailing to Waitohi-Picton again on a voyage of support and education named Te Hau K ō maru. The Trust’s waka hourua (double-hulled voyaging waka) Hinemoana is sailing to support the Waka Ama Long Distance Nationals being .