The curtain has come down on Te Matatini o Te Kāhui Maunga 2025 and planning for the 2027 event starts. With the nation’s top ...

Speculation has been rife that the Nelson-Marlborough region could miss out on its confirmed host status due to concerns over ...

Te Matatini o Te Kāhui Maunga brought tens of thousands of visitors to Taranaki for the biennial celebration of kapa haka, ...

It's one of biggest events on the calendar for te ao Māori and Te Matatini is back in 2025 bringing the best of haka and waiata from around Aotearoa and Australia. New Plymouth/Ngāmotu and the ...

Te Kapa Haka o Ngāti Whakaue have won the title of Toa Whakaihuwaka - the champions of Te Matatini. The rōpū from the Te ...

"Māori are very political people," Waititi who performed at Te Matatini with new group Te Taumata o Apanui on Thursday, said. During the performance, Waititi called on Māori to unite, and to ensure ...

On Saturday, the top 12 kapa out of 55 kapa competed, with judges crowning Te Kapa Haka o Ngāti Whakaue as the 2025 Te ...

Taranaki is set to reap a multimillion-dollar windfall as tens of thousands of visitors arrive for the Te Matatini Kahui Maunga festival. More than 70,000 people are expected to descend on Ngāmotu ...

Maxwell and his late wife, Atareta Maxwell, led Ngāti Rangiwewehi for 30 years, winning national titles in 1983 and 1996. He ...

The final day of Te Matatini o Te Kāhui Maunga has begun and hundreds of spectators were so keen for the they started lining up at 3am, four hours before the gates opened. Only 12 of the 55 kapa who ...

Te Matatini o Te Kāhui Maunga set a festival record with 55 teams competing over four days at Pukekura/Brooklands Bowl.

The songs are also translated into five other languages. Pokere Paewai, Māori issues reporter While the haka groups at Te ...