Musicians, Māori

Date: 1970 - 1979

Reference: Eph-B-VARIETY-GB-1970s

Description: Includes programmes for: 1974: Max Bygraves, Swingalongamax! Victoria Palace (England), ca 1974. Publicity booklet (includes photos of New Zealanders Denise Keene & "Happy" Tenana) 1977: "Night of 100 stars". National Theatre, 22 May 1977. Programme (Nyree Dawn Porter) Quantity: 2 programmmes. Physical Description: Offset print on programmes, sizes below 300 mm. Provenance: One programme purchased from Louise Grant, London, in 2004; one in 2009.

Date: 1959-1961

From: Westra, Ans, 1936-2023: Photographs

Reference: PAColl-10765-1

Description: Proof sheets depicting Māori, taken by Ans Westra between 1959 and 1961. Images include: - Waiwhetū scenes and the opening of the Waiwhetū marae wharenui - Wellington Māori Diocese hui at Ōtaki and Wairarapa Solway Showgrounds - Annual Kīngitanga coronation hui at Tūrangawaewae marae, Ngāruawāhia - Scenes of the Whanganui River, Huntly, King Country, Wellington, and Porirua Negatives associated with the proof sheets are digitsed and available at Series-6708-1 The proof sheets are housed in plastic sleeves, two per sleeve, back-to-back, with a paper sheet separating each pair. These are annotated by Ans Westra with additional information. Title supplied by Library Quantity: 101 b&w original photographic print(s) contact proof sheets containing 12 frames.

Date: 1960-1962

From: Westra, Ans, 1936-2023: Photographs

Reference: PAColl-10765-2

Description: Proof sheets depicting Māori, taken by Ans Westra between 1960 and 1962. Includes images of: - Porirua, Plimmerton and Wellington - Hui Aroha, Masterton and shearing Wairarapa - Opening of the Waiwhetū marae wharenui - Māori Women's Welfare league garden party - Henare Gilbert - Hui Topu, Ngāruawāhia - Passion play, Hastings - Taita Community Centre and Auckland Community Centre - Gear meatworks hostel, Petone - Annual Kīngitanga coronation hui at Tūrangawaewae marae, Ngāruawāhia Negatives associated with the proof sheets are digitsed and available at Series-6708-1 The proof sheets are housed in plastic sleeves, two per sleeve, back-to-back, with a paper sheet separating each pair. These are annotated by Ans Westra with additional information. Title supplied by Library Quantity: 100 b&w original photographic print(s) contact proof sheets containing 12 frames.

Date: 1961

From: Westra, Ans, 1936-2023: Photographs

Reference: PAColl-10765-2-0121

Description: Scenes at the Wellington District Maori Anglican Hui Aroha, Solway Showgrounds, Masterton, 1961. Photographs taken by Ans Westra. Includes nine images, chiefly of children, wearing semi-traditional Maori clothing; one image of a group of young men; two images of young men, one with a guitar and one with a ukelele. Negatives for this proof sheet at AWM-0121-F Descriptive information from notes written by Westra and filed with proof sheets. Title supplied by Library. Quantity: 1 b&w original photographic print(s) 1 proof sheet containing 12 images.

Date: 2004

Reference: Eph-D-MUSIC-2004-01

Description: Shows the violinist Elena in the foreground, with a montage of photographs of the other performers. Elen'a CD is promoted in the bottom left corner. Two copies held. Quantity: 1 colour photo-mechanical print(s) on poster.. Physical Description: Photolithograph, 595 x 420 mm. Provenance: Donated by Wadestown Public Library in 2004.

Date: 03 Feb 1993

From: Pop Music Oral History Project

By: Levin, Benny, 1929-1993

Reference: OHInt-0485-10

Description: Benny Levin was born in Devonport, in 1929. Talks about his family, education, membership with Saint John Ambulance Brigade, time at Seddon Technical College and apprenticeship as a cutter with Dominion Clothing Factory. Discusses popular music of the 1950's including Doris Day, Frank Sinatra, big bands and jazz. Describes work as a cutter, processes, equipment and products. Outlines brief career as seagull on Auckland wharves and formation of first band with Terry Arnager, Ron Sinclair, Dave Harding, Mary Feeney, Moran Cooper and Leo Abrams. Mentions Merv Thomas, Frank Gibson Junior, Murray Tanner and Ray Edmondson. Talks in detail about Auckland dances and billing as Benny 'Dance-Time' Levin and his Orchestra, booked by Joe Wheelhouse. Outlines first tour with Bart Stokes, Dorsey Cameron and blind pianoman Julian Lee. Talks about Maori music and invovlement with establishment of the Howard Morrision Quartet. Recalls recording of song 'My Old Man's an All Black' in 1960. Provides details of 1964 international show with Jean McDaniels, Benny King and D.D. Sharp. Talks about representation, publicity, venue bookings and work with the New Music booking agency and Videocorp. Discusses management of pop groups, establishment of Battle of the Bands competition and Entertainer of the Year award, the Impact record label and recording Larry's Rebels, Lew Pryme, Ray Columbus, the In-Betweens and Ray Woolf. Details the New Zealand music scene of the 1960's and outlines continued work in this area. Also talks about Mavis Rivers, Nancy Harry, Johnny Bradfield and Group, Craig Scott, Jenny Morris, Annie Crummer, the Dance Exponents, Harry Miller, the Everly Brothers, the La De Da's, the Underdogs, Eldred Stebbing, Carl Gordon, Golden Harvest, Dave Dobbyn, Dame Kiri Te Kanawa, John Rowles, Sir Howard Morrison, Billy T James, Phil Warren, the Keil Isles, The Rebels, Ray Columbus and the Invaders, Johnny Devlin, Bob Paris, Peter Posa, Rod Stewart, Elton John, Queen, Simon and Garfunkel, Lionel Ritchie, Lou Reed, Dave Allen, Sammy Davis, Bob Hope, Dudley Moore, Bunny Walters, Sir Peter Ustinov and Julian Clary. Access Contact - see oral history librarian Interviewer(s) - Roger Watkins Venue - B L P Office Arrangement: Tape numbers - OHC-005029, 005030-005031; OHLC-001155-001157 Quantity: 3 C60 cassette(s). 1 printed abstract(s). 3 Hours Duration. Finding Aids: Abstract Available - abstracting complete OHA-2086.

Date: 2004

From: [Posters and other ephemera of A3 size relating to Maori issues. 2003-2004]

By: Waru Records

Reference: Eph-C-MAORI-2004-01

Description: Poster advertising the CD release of "Taenga", shows a photograph of three people, the members of the vocal group Ko Au (Zemara Te Haeata Waru Keelan, Te Haa Ihimaera Wendt, Uweroa Mana Wagner) Quantity: 1 colour photo-mechanical print(s). Physical Description: Screenprint, 415 x 288 mm. Transfers: From Manuscripts & Archives - MS-Group-2218 - Other material of the same provenance is housed at MS-Group-2218 and PAColl-10074..

Date: 17 Apr 1991

From: Te Reo Irirangi o Te Upoko o Te Ika: Recordings

By: Melbourne, Hirini (Dr), 1949-2003; Walker, Piripi, 1955-; Toroa, T K, active 1988-1994

Reference: OHInt-0937-0237

Description: Composer Hirini Melbourne (Ngāi Tūhoe, Ngāti Kahungunu) talks about his waiata with Piripi Walker (Ngāti Raukawa ki Te Tonga) and "T K" Toroa (Ngāi Tūhoe). A two part recording. Melbourne begins with a poroporoaki and a mihi, then performs some of his waiata including Purea Nei, Toiapiapi, and Pūrerehua live. This interview takes place on the third birthday of the radio station. Arrangement: Tape numbers - OHT10-0835 Quantity: 1 10" reel(s). 66.16 Minutes and seconds duration. Search dates: 1991 Processing information: Record enhanced in 2016 with information from Piripi Walker, Secretary and Trustee of Te Upoko o Te Ika Trust Board.

Date: 2019

From: Lamprill, Paul: Documentaries of jazz musicians and venues

Reference: MSDVD-0134

Description: Documentary video about Māori jazz musician Dennis Taylor by Paul Lamprill. Title supplied by Library. Quantity: 1 digital video disc(s) DVD-R. Processing information: Description created from item label/housing. Item has not been previewed as part of processing.

Date: 2019

From: Lamprill, Paul: Documentaries of jazz musicians and venues

Reference: MSDVD-0133

Description: Documentary video about Māori jazz musician Dennis Taylor by Paul Lamprill. Title supplied by Library. Quantity: 1 digital video disc(s). Processing information: Description created from item label/housing. Item has not been previewed as part of processing.

Date: 2004

By: Aratoi Wairarapa Museum of Art and History; Auckland University Press; Auckland War Memorial Museum; Māori Party; Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa; National Library of New Zealand; New Zealand. Department of Conservation; New Zealand. Māori Television; Ngai Tahu Property Group Ltd; Pataka Porirua Museum of Arts and Cultures; Rangiatea (Church : Ōtaki, N.Z.); Te Wānanga o Aotearoa; Wellington (N.Z.). City Council

Reference: Eph-A-MAORI-2004

Description: Comprises ephemera relating to Maori in 2004. Title supplied by Library. Quantity: 1 folder(s) containing 38 pieces of ephemera.

Date: 2005

By: Katchafire (Musical group)

Reference: Eph-D-MUSIC-Popular-2005-01

Description: Poster shows a head and shoulders portrait illustration of a man with dreadlocks streaming out behind his head. The word Katchafire is spelled out in letters striped in blue and red. The lower half of the poster lists the venues and dates of the tour: 18 March, Waihi Beach Hotel; 1 April Spa Hotel Taupo; 2 April Sideline Bar Napier; 7 April Grumpy Mole Rotorua; 8 April Riverhead Tavern Riverhead; 15 April Safari Lounge Ponsonby; 16 April White Horse Pakuranga; 22 April The Mill New Plymouth; 23 April Civic Centre Te Kuiti; 29 April Stadium Genesis Centre Masterton; 30 April Indigo Bar Wellington; 5 May The Copper Bock Blenheim; 6 May Phat Club Nelson; 7 May Denniston Dog Westport; 12 May Tillermans Invercargill; 13 May Otago University Dunedin; 14 May The Esplanade Hotel Christchurch; 27 May Whakatane Hotel Whakatane; 28 May Irish Rover Gisborne; 3 June Harbour Masters Waiheke Island; 4 June Heaven Bar Whangarei; 11 June Otaki Maori Race Course Otaki; 17 June The Albert Palmerston North; 23 June Miss Q's Pool Bar Panmure; 24 June Brewers Bar Mt Maunganui. This copy has three felt pen signatures. Quantity: 1 colour photo-mechanical print(s) with 3 black felt pen signatures. Physical Description: Offset print on glossy paper, 605 x 415 mm.

Date: 1990-2000

By: Aotearoa Traditional Māori Performing Arts Society; Heperi, Vince, -2022

Reference: PA-Group-00042

Description: Photographs taken by Vince Heperi of Aotearoa Traditional Maori Performing Arts kapa haka competitions 1990 to 2000: - Te Taitokerau Waitangi, 1990 - Tainui Ngāruawāhia, 6-9 February 1992 - Aotea Hāwera, 24-27 February 1994 - Te Arawa Rotorua, 22-25 February 1996 - Te Whanganui-a-Tara Trentham, 27 February - 2 March 1998 - Tainui Ngāruawāhia, 2000 Inventory available in Photographic Archive backfile. Title supplied by Library. Te Matatini Society deposited moving recordings of performances with Ngā Taonga Sound and Vision, Film, Video Collection. Quantity: 1876 colour original photographic print(s). 1304 colour original negative(s) 35mm strips containing 5,247 frames. 71 colour original photographic print(s) proof prints. 41 b&w original photographic print(s) proof sheet strips containing 205 frames. 39 item(s) of photographic ephemera envelopes. 17 colour original photographic print(s) proof sheet strips containing 85 frames. 15 album(s) containing proof prints. 1 item(s) of photographic ephemera photocopy of envelope cover. Processing information: Not all names associated with the collection have been indexed.

Date: 2004 - 2008 - 2010

By: Sully, Sol de, active 1980-2000s

Reference: Eph-B-MUSIC-Popular-2010-02

Description: Includes three pamphlets showing photographs of Moana and the Tribe, one in French ca 2003-2004, one in English from ca 2010 issued by Creative New Zealand; and one issued by Sol de Sully from early 2008. Quantity: 3 colour photo-mechanical print(s). Physical Description: Offset prints on flyers and pamphlets, sizes varying up to 297 x 210 mm. Provenance: Donated by Sol de Sully, Auckland, in 2013. Transfers: DVDs of the same provenance housed in Published Music collection..

Date: [ca 1910, ca 1946-ca 2004]

From: Nunns, Richard, 1945-2021: Collection

By: Nunns, Richard, 1945-2021

Reference: Series-6231

Description: Prints, slides and negatives are mainly of taonga puoro (Maori musical instruments), instrument makers, students and performers. The majority of the images relate to Richard Nunns' involvement with a group of people interested in the playing and making of taonga puoro, from 1991. In this year, during a conference held at Te Araroa by the East Coast branch of Nga Puna Waihanga (the Maori Artists and Writers Association), Nunns began a strong relationship with Hirini Melbourne and Brian Flintoff which resulted in the revival of the playing and making of traditional Maori musical instruments. Some of the taonga shown are old (the group includes images from museum collections) and many were made from the 1980s by Brian Flintoff, Clem Mellish, Huata Holmes, John Collins and others. Photographs highlight the variety of materials used for the instruments which includes clay, gourds, bone - from birds including moa, dog, chamois, whale and human, whale tooth, shell - of land and marine creatures, native woods and stone - including pounamu (greenstone) and pakohe (argillite). Photographs also shows a range of events held between 1991 and 2004 (some overseas), and the musicians, actors and others involved. Also included are images from Nunns' student years at the University of Canterbury and Teachers College (1965-1969), and from his years as a secondary school teacher (Drama and English) in Hamilton and Nelson (1970-1978). There are three negative strips (and prints) which comprise images of Mauri Tirikatene in various poses with a pūtōrino. Arrangement: Images left in original order. Some duplicates are located in different boxes. Negatives at 35mm-85518 to 85581. Quantity: 519 colour original photographic print(s). 47 digital print(s). 111 b&w original photographic print(s). 4 colour photo-mechanical print(s). 7 b&w photo-mechanical print(s). 39 colour original transparency/ies. 54 colour original negative(s) 35mm strips comprising 185 images. 3 b&w original negative(s) 35mm strips comprising 9 images. Provenance: Donated by Richard Nunns in February 2007. Processing information: This series was previously described as a separate collection PA-Group-00060. It was brought into this record with manuscripts of the same provenance at ATL-Group-00247 in November 2017. The film negatives are mostly not described at item level (apart from three 35mm negative strips). See the series scope and content for general information on the content of these photographic formats. The film transparencies were described at an item level in April 2019. The transparencies now at PA12-3921 were previously housed as 35mm negatives.

Date: 2005 - 2007

From: Nunns, Richard, 1945-2021: Collection

Reference: Eph-A-MUSIC-Nunns-2005-01

Description: A tribute to Hirini Melbourne, Maori musician and historian, with photographs of natural objects, and contributions by Hon Parekura Horomia, Kate Vusoniwailala (director of Waikato Museum), Professor Wharehuia Milroy, Richard Nunns, Clem Mellish, Brian Flintoff, Pania Melbourne (all photographed), and photographs of Mamae Takerei and Glenice Wiggs. The booklet describes the preparation plans for an exhibition to be shown in 2007 in Hirini Melbourne's honour and shows photographs of taonga puoro and putorino. Quantity: 1 volume(s) spiral-bound booklet. Physical Description: Photolithographs in spiral-bound booklet of approximately 20 leaves, some transparent, each page 142 x 220 mm.

Date: 1996

From: Nunns, Richard, 1945-2021: Collection

Reference: Eph-A-MUSIC-Nunns-1996-01

Description: Booklet giving the day-by-day programme of events, for two parallel festivals. The Tuwharetoa Arts Festival included: opening ceremony at Waihi Marae Turangi, Hirini Melbourne at Hirangi Marae Turangi, premiere performance of "The captive" by Rowley Habib at Great Lake Centre Taupo, archival film showing of "Hei Tiki", Mahinarangi Tocker at Waihi Marae, National Maori Choir. The Lake Taupo Festival included performances by Malvina Major, Midge Marsden, Dr Jazz, Beverly Watson, "The case of Katherine Mansfield", Randy Pile, Saxcess, Nairobi Trio, Sam Hunt & Gary McCormick, Class Act Opera, Malcolm McNeill, The Nixons. Quantity: 1 album(s). Physical Description: Booklet of 27 + 15 pages, 210 x 100 mm.

Date: 1998

From: Nunns, Richard, 1945-2021: Collection

Reference: Eph-A-MUSIC-Nunns-1998-01

Description: The folded inner pamphlet accompanying the CD of the same title, giving information about the making of the CD and the people involved. The front panel shows a gourd. Quantity: 1 album(s). Physical Description: Offset print, 120 x 357 mm., folded to 120 x 120 mm.

Date: 1963

From: Westra, Ans, 1936-2023: Photographs

Reference: AWM-0659-F

Description: Images of people swimming in the Waikato River at Ngaruawahia, and of singer? Shirley Clifford and musician Anzac Te Oka at the Maori Festival of the Arts, Ngaruawahia. Photographs taken in 1963 by Ans Westra. Unless otherwise stated all persons are unidentified. Source of descriptive information - Notes written by Westra and filed with proof sheets. Quantity: 4 b&w original negative(s) 120 strips containing 12 images. Physical Description: Cellulose acetate roll film Processing information: Digitisation details - Original negatives digitised by Suite Tirohanga.

Date: 1963

From: Westra, Ans, 1936-2023: Photographs

Reference: AWM-0661-F

Description: Images of the Howard Morrison Quartet, backed by the Quin Tikis performing at the Ngaruawahia Festival of the Arts, and main street scenes of Ngaruawahia. Vogue Trio members Ivan Berryman and Bill Morgan are seen in frame 6, with Gertrude Berryman. Frames 9 and 10 show two young people, John Edmonds and Hera Kirkwood standing on the pavement in Ngaruawahia. Named at a later date by an unidentified attendee at the festival. (Information from enlarged proofsheets produced for an exhibition in 2009.) Photographs taken in 1963 by Ans Westra. Unless otherwise stated all persons are unidentified. Source of descriptive information - Notes written by Westra and filed with proof sheets. Quantity: 4 b&w original negative(s) 120 strips containing 12 images. Physical Description: Cellulose acetate roll film Processing information: Digitisation details - Original negatives digitised by Suite Tirohanga.