Te Matatini o Te Kāhui Maunga Festival 2025 will launch officially this Friday in New Plymouth, beginning the countdown to one of the largest cultural events in te ao Māori. Friday’s launch will ...

A new impact evaluation report on this year's Te Matatini shows that the 2025 festival was the biggest to date. The report showed that Te Matatini o Te Kāhui Maunga held in February in Ngāmotu New ...

National kapa haka festival Te Matatini has almost $50 million in funding in Budget 2024. Te Matatini had not been funded beyond this year. Māori Development Minister Tama Potaka said the significance ...

All online tickets for the final day of the Te Matatini festival have sold out and the organisers have confirmed there will be no gate sales available. Te Matatini chief executive Carl Ross said the ...

Day one of Te Matatini o Te Kāhui Maunga has finished, setting a high benchmark for the week to come There were 14 kapa haka rōpū that performed on Tuesday in the first pool of the preliminary ...

The Government has boosted funding for Te Matatini by more than $34 million for the next two years, making it the highest-funded arts service provider. The funding takes it just above that of the New ...

More than half a century after it last performed, East Coast team Te Pariha o Hikurangi reformed for this year’s Tamararo regionals, where it earned a place in the 2017 Te Matatini Kapa Haka Festival, ...

Te Matatini festival is expected to bring 70,000 people into the region, with accommodation already booked out (file photo).RNZ/ Te Aniwa Hurihanganui Upgrades to help marae properly host a multitude ...

Te Matatini will occur in Te Tauihu in 2027. Te Whānau-ā-Apanui were the overall winners of Te Matatini in 2023, when the kapa haka champs held in Auckland's Eden Park.Supplied Te Tauihu (upper South ...