Thousand's are expected to converge on New Plymouth for the kapa haka competition, which is projected to bring in $27 million for the region, its chief executive says.

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 ...

The national kapa haka competition returns on 25 February, hosted this year in Ngāmotu/New Plymouth.

Toni Huata performing at the Kahungunu Kapa Haka Regionals in Hawke's Bay. Māori singer, composer and performer Toni Huata has died. Huata was a champion of Māori music and te reo, and released ...

A Christian fundamentalist group has clashed with police after it protested a rainbow Pride parade while performing a haka. Members of Brian Tamaki's Destiny Church held up the parade in central ...

Houston is heading for a new life and full-time football with FC Haka, but was shown a straight red for a crude challenge on Elgin’s Lyall Booth, seven minutes after climbing off the bench in ...

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Te Matatini began life in 1972 as the Polynesian Festival, at the inaugural festival in Rotorua seventeen kapa haka performed alongside six Polynesian groups representing Samoa, the Cook Islands and ...

Te Matatini o Te Kāhui Maunga will not only bring thousands of people to the rohe but also their wallets. Te Matatini, the ...

Ngāti Hine FM station manager Erana Fenton, the lead producer for Haka Translate, says a team of 12 translators will simultaneously broadcast translations of each kapa’s waiata tira, whakaeke, ...

National Rugby League respects and honours the Traditional Custodians of the land and pay our respects to their Elders past, present and future. We acknowledge the stories, traditions and living ...

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 ...