Tama Waipara

Multi-award-winning composer, singer/songwriter and Wellington Jazz Festival co-director Tama Waipara joins Charlotte Ryan to share some of his favourite music.

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Each show, Culture 101 visits a different region to find out what's going on in the arts and culture scene.

For our first show back this year, we're heading to Te Tairāwhiti and joining us is… Audio

Tama Waipara has the latest news from Te Tairawhiti Arts Festival - including their local focussed festival next month and a new Summer Arts Festival for early 2022. Audio

Artistic Director Tama Waipara on Te Tairāwhiti Arts Festival opening this weekend and celebrating the vast creativity of the East Coast and its people. Audio

William Dart celebrates Maori Language Week with Maisey Rika's superb new album, Ngā Mata o te Ariki Tāwhirimātea. Audio

Four Maori and Pasifika Festivals are the first to receive up to $100,000 from the new Creative and Cultural Events Incubator fund. The government says the incubator fund provides seed and development… Audio

Has 2019 been a good year in the performing arts? Te Matatini, the national Maori performing arts festival inspired kapa haka themed pedestrian crossing lights in Wellington, new festivals popped up… Audio

Tama Waipara is festival director for the inaugural Te Tairāwhiti Arts Festival, which started last week and runs until October 20th. Featuring writers, performers and artists such as Nancy Brunning… Audio

Two Auckland Festival shows in March put waiata Māori front and centre - a free sing-along event in Aotea Square called Tira, and another called Tōku Reo Waiata. The brains behind the shows, Tama… Video, Audio

William Dart reflects on Auckland Arts Festival's recent tribute concert to singer-songwriter Mahinaarangi Tocker, who died 10 years ago this month. Audio

The Auckland Arts Festival's concert celebrating the life and music of a great Māori musician Mahinārangi Tocker. Recorded in Auckland Town Hall, 16, 17 March 2018. Video, Audio

Despite a near-full Auckland Town Hall, Friday night's tribute to Māori musician and activist Mahinārangi Tocker felt like an intimate commemoration of someone dearly loved and missed.

It's ten years since the early death of prolific singer song-writer Mahinarangi Tocker. Mahinarangi composed more than 1000 songs exploring identity and aroha, many of them written in Te Reo Maori… Audio

Tama Waipara, musician and Senior Programme Manager of the Auckland Arts festival presents some of the musical highlights he's chosen for the March 2018 festival. Video, Audio

Tama Waipara and Te Karehana Gardiner-Toi (Teeks) discuss the evolution of Pao Pao Pao a mentoring program for Maori musicians. Audio

Dance, music, projected imagery and late night talk combine to tell the story of young love with a Pacific flavor in The Beautiful Ones. Auckland musician Tama Waipara is part of the team behind the… Video, Audio

In front of a crowd of 400 people in Auckland last night, the most sought-after songwriting award in the country went to Wellington musician Thomas Oliver. Audio

Alongside the coveted APRA Silver Scroll award, the trophies for the APRA Maioha Award, Best Original Music in a Feature Film Award, and Best Original Music in a Television Series Award have been… Video