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 ...

The transformative power of kapa haka and a celebration of one Aotearoa's most revered songwriters and champion of Māori culture are the focus of two exhibitions at New Plymouth's Puke Ariki Museum.

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 ...

A Kiwi soldier killed in Ukraine has been honoured in an emotional ceremony, with soldiers performing a Haka in front ... pay away from the New Zealand Defence Force (NZDF) at the time.

Te Kapa Haka o Ngāti Ranginui will represent Tauranga Moana at Te Matatini in New Plymouth this week. Video / Rosalie Liddle Crawford They are the only Tauranga Moana rōpū [group] selected to ...

“This is Māori excellence” says Rotorua’s Trevor Maxwell of Te Matatini, the world’s biggest kapa haka festival. Kapa haka groups across Aotearoa have been training hard for the supreme ...