Muriwai

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Thurs 24 Oct 7.30pm

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Award-winning musicians and collaborators Ariana Tikao (Kāi Tahu) and Bob Bickerton have joined forces to create Muriwai. The name refers to a confluence of two rivers, and their music is a convergence of Māori and Celtic musical traditions through Celtic harp, vocals, and taonga puoro.

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Long-time collaborators, the pair have now developed a major 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 the South Island, our impact on the environment, and imagined consequences of our actions.

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Ariana 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 New Zealand Arts Foundation.

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.

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Muriwai is presented by the Waimakariri Community Arts Council in partnership with Chamber Music New Zealand.