NEW ZEALAND

Arts practitioner Tama Waipara (Ruapani / Rongowhakaata / Ngāti Porou) has a Masters from New York’s Manhattan School of Music. He is the winner of a Vodafone Music Award for Best Roots Album for Fill Up The Silence, and an APRA Award for Best Original Music in a Feature Film for his Mahana score.

AWF 2018