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Today fourteen teams took to the stage in Te Wairoa for their chance at securing one of four spots to Te Matatini in Wellington next year.
Kahungunu lifted their kapa haka game at this year's Ngāti Kahungunu regional competition held in Te Wairoa, with fourteen teams battling it out on the stage to earn that Te Matatini spot come 2019.
Thirteen haka teams are set to take centre stage at Te Wairoa Waiora Ngati Kahungunu Regional Kapa Haka Competition this coming Saturday.
The very first Waitaha Regional competition was held in 1965 at the Theatre Royal. Fifty-three years later the competition within the region is still going strong.
For the first time, Te Pou o Mangatāwhiri has been crowned winners at the Tainui Waka Regional Kapa Haka Competition in Hamilton. A total of five teams have qualified to represent Tainui at the 2019 Te Matatini National Kapa Haka competition.
Here are the full results from the 2018 Tainui Waka Cultural Festival, from which five groups will be advancing to Te Matatini 2019 being held in Wellington.
Waitaha Cultural Council - Ngā Pākihi Whakatekateka o Waitaha is hosting this year's regional kapa haka competition for Waitaha rohe. Ten groups will be vying for a spot to advance to the 2019 Te Matatini national festival which will be held in Wellington.
This morning, the 2018 Tainui Waka Cultural Trust Kapa Haka Festival kicked off at Claudelands Event Centre in Hamilton. Over 500 performers from a total of 17 groups will take the regional stage today.
The rapid growth of Northland's secondary school kapa haka festival could pose big pressures for schools and organisers in the future.
The 2018 Tūhoe Ahurei held in Rotorua over the weekend staged 14 senior kapahaka groups who, if they chose, could also hold their own regional qualifying competition for Te Matatini.
Kapa haka took center stage at the Tūhoe Festival in Rotorua today.
Over the years it’s become a way of retaining Tūhoe unique culture for its youth which has been encouraged by compulsory items such as ‘Karanga, te whakatū waewae, wero, rau rākau and mōteatea.
Hundreds of people packed into the Rotorua International Stadium to watch the children's kapa haka. The local team from Mataatua ki Rotorua showed that their children come from a proud history of living in the city but their tribal links to Tūhoe are alive and well.
