Award-winning musicians and collaborators Ariana Tikao (Kāi Tahu) and Bob Bickerton have joined forces to create Muriwai. A confluence of two rivers, their music merges Māori and Celtic musical traditions through Celtic harp, vocals, and taonga puoro.
Long-time collaborators, Ariana Tikao (Kāi Tahu) and Whakatū-local Bob Bickerton have developed a major new work which journeys through time and place starting with a Kāi Tahu creation story relating to water, through to the arrival of people in Te Waipounamu, our subsequent impact on the environment and the consequences of our actions.
Ariana Tikao [vocals & taonga puoro] is a composer and performer of waiata in te reo Māori and English, as well as being an exponent of taonga puoro. She received the Jillian Friedlander Te Moana-nui-a-Kiwa Laureate Award in 2010 from the Arts Foundation Te Tumu Toi. Bob Bickerton, a performer of both traditional Irish music and taonga puoro, has recorded with Richard Nunns, Aroha Yates-Smith and many others. In 2015, he was appointed as a Member of the New Zealand Order of Merit for his services to music.
Presented in partnership with Chamber Music New Zealand.
