He Manu Tioriori | Songbirds

3 June to 26 August (2018), MTG Tai Ahuriri Hawke’s Bay Traversing 100 years of Ngati Kahungunu’s love affair with music from hymns and brass bands to parlour music, ragtime and rock and roll. Charting the departure from traditional Maori music after World War I to the emergence of Maori jazz orchestras in the 1920s and Maori showbands in the 1960s, He Manu Tioriori explores the adoption of western musical knowledge into modern Maori culture and the revival of traditional styles in the 1980s, and culminates in Te Matatini, the nation’s pinnacle event for Maori performing arts which was hosted by Ngati Kahungunu in February 2017. mtghawkesbay.com