Music News - Pacific Underground recognised with Lifetime Achievement Award
26 May 2016 - 0 Comments
One of Pacific music’s most recognisable names is to be honoured with the Manukau Institute of Technology Lifetime Achievement Award at the Vodafone Pacific Music Awards.
Scheduled to take place on June 9 at the Vodafone Events Centre in Auckland, this year’s Awards will see the twelfth time a Lifetime Achievement Award is made, this time to worthy recipient Pacific Underground.
The country’s longest running Pacific performing arts organisation, Pacific Underground (PU) is a collective which formed in Christchurch in 1993. Since then, the group has shared stories of Pasifika communities living in Aotearoa through plays, music concerts, events, CDs, tours and collaborations with artists all over the Pacific.
Pacific Music Awards Trust spokesperson Rev. Mua Strickson-Pua notes that this Award recognises artists who have significantly contributed to Pacific music over an extended period of time. “That’s certainly something the community sees in Pacific Underground. Since 1993, this group has occupied a central space in the local scene and across a wide variety of mediums, including the production of music, theatre, events and more. I love that Pacific Underground started in a very humble, grassroots way, but its influence and contribution today is being recognised and honoured.”
Pacific Underground’s recent activities include project managing Mana Moana Art and Music labs in Auckland, running the first full length season of its play ‘Rangi and Mau’s Amazing Race’ and a performance at the opening of Glen Innes’s new music and arts centre, Te Oro.
The group collaborated with Kalaga’la at the Auckland Arts Festival in 2015, completed tours to New Caledonia and performed at the Jean Tjibaou Cultural Centre in Noumea. It also recently collaborated with Christchurch’s Free Theatre and Unitec Architecture students for the Festival of Transitional Architecture with a light installation piece called ‘Under the Fale’.
For the past 17 years, Pos Mavaega and Tanya Muagututi’a have led the group and have diversified its involvement of performing arts by focusing on strengthening it’s behind the scenes activities through event and music production. The two havve created a unique work ethic with humility and integrity, cutting through high-stress environment by providing opportunity, encouragement and hospitality.
The group has won several awards to date, including TV2s MAI TIME Poutokomanawa Award, the Cultural Diversity Award from the Human Rights Commission, and the Media Peace Award from Radio NZ.
Previous winners of the Manukau Institute of Technology Lifetime Achievement Award at the Pacific Music Awards include Ardijah, Bill Sevesi, Annie Crummer, The Yandall Sisters, and most recently, Herbs.
The awards are now in their 12th year and the winners will be announced at an event celebrating and honouring Pacific music and artists at the Vodafone Events Centre on Thursday 9 June.
Tickets to the ceremony will be available through TicketDirect. http://www.ticketdirect.co.nz/ 0800 224 224. (Please note a booking fee may apply).
For more information: http://www.pacificmusicawards.org.nz/
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