Pūoro Tū - A Celebration of the Oro - Episode 1

The first of two episodes featuring live recordings and interviews from Pyramid Club's Taonga Pūoro Festival held in November 2021.

Pyramid Club along with Ruby Solly and Al Fraser hosted Pūoro Tū, a festival of “adventures in Māori instruments and sounds” in Te Whanganui-a-Tara. With a simple welcome to taonga pūoro players throughout  Aotearoa a significant event took place, the worlds first six day celebration of the oro of taonga pūoro.

Thomas Lambert conducted interviews and collected the recordings made during the festival; live recording by Thomas Lambert, Warwick Donald, and Jonny Marks.

To find all the past event listings and a summary of the festival click here

Also on the Te Papa blog there is this article by Ruby Solly about what took place.

The time stamps for this episode are:

00'00 : Jerome Kavanagh, Salina Fisher, Neil MacLeod
08'40 : Sam Palmer - Beach workshop
12'40 : Tāmihana Kātene - Beach workshop
14'23 : Te Kahureremoa Taumata - Beach workshop
15'06 : Tāmira Pūoro & Ruby Solly
23'44 : Kerian Varaine
25'15 : Shane James
31'11 : Ruby Solly, Shane James, Mahina Kingi-Kaui - Panel discussion
35'42 : Bunker performance
36'14 : Beach workshop participants
43'50 : Daniel Beban, Al Fraser, Ruby Solly
44'45 : Bunker performance, ft. Tāmihana Kātene

With thanks to Creative New Zealand