Island Summer CD Release show coming up 7.30pm 6 November, 2010 at Nga Hau E Wha Marae, 250 Pages Road, Aranui, Christchurch - FREE. Come down, meet the crew and buy our very own copy of this long awaited CD.
Ten years ago in 2000, Maria Godinet Watts Rhonda Thompson approached Tanya Muagututi’a to consider staging a concert for the 2001 Ta Moko /Tatau Symposium. A one-day festival happened at the Arts Centre called ‘Tasi - Pacific Arts’. New artist Brian Newport designed a logo called the ‘Tasi man’ the event became an annual fixture for PU. By 2003, Toru-Pacific Arts (three in Maori) opened as a multi-event arts festival and the Family Day overcrowded with teenaged girls wanting to see a new group called Nesian Mystic.
At Lima-Pacific Arts, a new bus tour had performers travel to shopping malls to promote the festival. At Ono-Pacific Arts, emerging artist Felolini Maria Ifopo held five art exhibitions and at Vitu - Pacific Arts, Dallas Tamaira of Fat Feddy’s Drop headlined for the first time as a solo artist.
Waru - Pacific Arts and Iva Pacific Arts featured strong local performers. Swarm performed with live graffiti artists painting words Waru and Iva onstage.
