visit Ardijah.com
click to profile Te Matarae I Orehu   ...  at the 2002 AOTEAROA TRADITIONAL MÄORI PERFORMING ARTS FESTIVAL   Orakei   Auckland
check a review of the Santana concert @ the Bowl of Brooklands 21 March 03...........Guitar guru Carlos Santana served up a concert to remember for more than 12,000 appreciative fans.
check the Nevilles.com
@ Womad Taranaki ....The music of Te Vaka, written by Opetaia Foa'i is traditionally influenced - tribal, powerful and rootsy yet melodic, warm, earthy and atmospheric  ..
click 2 check national kapa haka champions Waihirere @ the Aotearoa Traditional Maori Performing Arts website
@ Womad Taranaki  2003   .. Wai   ...a mix of indigenous percussions and action sounds
check Fat Freddys @ Amplifier.co.nz
@ Womad Taranaki ...    click 2 check   hip hop rap Che Fu
check Dallas @ Amplifier
check Womad Aotearoa
click 2 check the sweet sound of Ardijah.
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Ardijah singer Betty-Ann Monga
@ Womad Taranaki 2003 Billy TK sees his music as a vehicle to promote world peace and unity   ...... joined by special guests Emma Paki (NZ) and American musician Gilbert Garcia ..
visit Wai        Winner:Mana Mäori award New Zealand Music Awards 2001
Ernest Ranglin bio  ... played on the first-ever album issued on Island Records, featured on Millie's No 1 'My Boy Lollipop' , and was crucial to the development of artists such as Jimmy Cliff, Johnny Nash, and Bob Marley
Te Vaka has released three internationally successful albums and toured the world constantly for the last 5 years performing in 28 countries. The group has been nominated for two BBC Radio 3 World Music Awards for 2003 - the "Audience Award" for world music, and also the Asia/ Pacific category.
click 4 Waihirere @ Womad Taranaki
check Womad. co. nz
Santana band musicians
Dallas Tamaira
Fat Freddys Drop
Wai
official website
Billy TK
Te Vaka
@ Womad Taranaki ....   Wellington's Trinity Roots are a dub reggae act that uses Roots as a "vehicle or medium to convey emotion" through use of a lyrical message and primal rhythms".
Trinity Roots
Moana
In the shadow of Mount Taranaki the International WOMAD Festival of music, arts and dance returned to Aotearoa at the Brooklands Bowl in New Plymouth. The visiting artists were
given a welcoming powhiri on a local marae by the Taranaki Maori people before the festival.

For three days in March 14-16, 2003 a stunning lineup of over
300 performers from 15 countries joined with a strong lineup of local artists to present a festival that captured the energy of
World music and culture that is universally known as Womad.

Some of the local and international artists that fronted Womad Taranaki are shown here with web links or click here for lineup
Ernest Ranglin
Taranaki Maunga ... click 2 check the history
Toni Huata
Te Matarae I Orehu
Cheikh Lo
Che Fu
the Neville Brothers
Santana with Australian aboriginal band Yothu Yondi
courtesy Santana.com
Womad.co.nz
Badenya Les Freres Coulibaly
(Burkina Faso)
Los De Abajo from Mexico City brought to Womad Taranaki a kaleidoscope of musical influences from merengue to salsa, reggae to polka, mamba to rock - and Latin Ska. Los De Abajo, meaning 'those down below',  reclaim the right to play whatever music they like, to scream out loud about poverty or  racism, and to be defiantly Mexican. 
Los De Abajo
Toto's  La Momposina
Madosini is a cultural treasure who has, over 60 years of making music, created an enormous body of original songs in the Xhosa tradition of South Africa. Expert at playing the Isitolotolo (Jew's harp) and musical bows the Queen and muse of Mpondoland, her iconic status as composer, musician storyteller and dancer has been hard won through bitter experience and struggles with poverty, natural disasters, apartheid.
@ Womad Taranaki 03  70-year-old guitar legend Ernest Ranglin played Womad Auckland in 1999. He played on the first-ever album issued on Island Records, featured on Millie's No 1 'My Boy Lollipop' , and was crucial to the development of artists such as Jimmy Cliff, Johnny Nash, and Bob Marley. Ernest Ranglin has moved with ease between ska,reggae and jazz - only a few years ago he was recording with drum and bass masters Sly and Robbie.
Madosini  
South Africa
video
Acknowledgements
Betty Ann Monga, Toni Huata, Hinewehi Mohi, Te Matarae i Orehu, Dalla Tamaira, Fat Freddys Drop, Ernest Ranglin, Trinity Roots, Madosini, Billy TK, Wai, Te Vaka, Los De Abajo, Cheikh Lo, Toto's La Momposina, Moana, Che Fu,  Badenya Les Freres Coulibaly,
Waihirere, Womad Taranaki, Santana.com, Neville.Bros, Tim Owen.
Carlos Santana played the Bowl of Brooklands, New Plymouth
and the North Harbour Stadium, Auckland on the Shaman Tour  in late March 2003
Carlos - holding a taiaha and the Santana band with support act Yothu Yindi are greeted by a powhiri - a ceremonial welcome on arrival in Auckland NZ on the Shaman tour
          Santana.com
click  2 check  ..... Santana & ANSA supports the fight against AIDS in South Africa ...proceeds from Santana US Summer tour 2003,
his first tour down under since '96 check pics of Santana in NZ/Australia March 03
pics NZ/Australia tour 03
his first tour down under since '96 check pics of Santana in NZ/Australia March 03
Moonflower cafe
videos
Santana band
click to check a video of Madosini @ Womad UK in 2002
Hinewehi Moh  - Oceania
@ Womad Taranaki  ......... check singer Moana
@ Womad Taranaki ..Che Fu ..click 2 check his website
video
Maori music from Aotearoa New Zealand
and international artists
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check videos @  Santana.com
check pics  from the Nevilles Brothers Gallery
click 2 check the video... studio excerpts from the making of the Shaman album, Santana and guest artists
click 2 check Hinewehi Mohi
Womad.org
check Womad International
Ka karanga nga hau ki te tonga ka karanga nga hau ki te muri. Kia makinakina ki uta kia mataratara ki tai. Whakapuke ai nga ngaru ki te ngarue E ko nga potiki a Hinehopu e heru ana, i Te Matarae I Orehu   ... Live 2002
Maori Music world, indigenous gifted & maori, whirimako black, te waka huia, trinity roots, mahinarangi tocker, che  fu, k’lee, katchafire, ruia aperahama, anika moa, 
Mauri To

Te Maori E
check fat freddys drop website
check Mauri To @ maori music.com
check Toni Huata @ Maori music
check audio tracks on Te Mauri E
@ Womad Taranaki .. click 2 check Cheikh Lo
@ Womad Taranaki 2003 .. click 2 check Cheikh Lo
@ Womad Taranaki 2003  ...  the Badenya Les Freres Coulibaly brothers from Burkina Faso, a family of Griots, musicians and oral historians, a seven-piece percussion and dance group that brings music to Aotearoa from the heart of Africa 
@ Womad Taranaki 2003  .......a roots original, Toto la Momposina creates a brilliant fusion of Colombian and Cuban traditional pop styles
music from the heart of Africa  @ Womad Taranaki 2003  ... click 2 check the Badenya Les Freres Coulibaly brothers @ the BBC
click 2 check Toto la Momposina
video doco ..excerpts from the making of
       Shaman .. Santana & guests
click 2 check a video of Wai
back to Ngaa Iwi Maori
a rhythmic mix of traditional and groove  .. click 2 checkToni Huata , audio, bio, pics, press
click 2 check Moana
@ Womad Taranaki 2003  ..guitarist Billy TK AND THE ONE WORLD PEACE BAND(NZ)...Still intense and exciting after 40yrs of guitar playing, the band features Emma Paki (NZ) and Gilbert Garcia(US)     ...  click 2 check Billy TK
click 2 check national kapa haka champions Waihirere
maori music aotearoa new zealand Womad Taranaki festival 03
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