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2007
October 13th and 14th - Te Vaka performs for the very
prestigious Village
Rugbycolour stage in Paris representing New Zealand and the South
Pacific musically at the Rugby World Cup in France
2007 October 4th - Te Vaka complete with new members Talaga Sale
and Vasa Foai head to Europe
2007 July 3rd - The 5th Te Vaka album, Olatia is
released and enters European World Music chart at no. 4
2007 March 3rd - Opetaia and most of the
band relocate to Australia
2006 October 20th - Te Vaka release their 2nd DVD
2006 June 10th - Te Vaka performs at the Suva
stadium in Fiji
2006 March 20th - 26th -
Te Vaka performs 4 times at the Melbourne Commonwealth Games
2006
March 17th - 19th - Sold out performances at the Brisbane
Powerhouse in Australia
2005 November 25th - Te Vaka performs at the Waikiki Shell in
Hawaii
2005 November 2nd
- Opetaia Foai wins the "Senior Pacific Artist"
award for his contribution to the Pacific arts.
2005 October & December - Te Vaka travels for the first
time to French Polynesia for a show in Tahiti at the Toata Stadium and
return again in December for a show in Bora Bora
2005 September 3 - 10th - Te Vaka return for a second show
at Apia Park in Samoa. The promoters for the e
2005 August 24th - 27th - Te Vaka head to South Korea for
3 shows at the Peace festival
beyond the DMZ.
2005 4th
May – 15th May
– Te Vaka tour to Hawaii. Performances in Maui, Honolulu and Hawaii (Big
Island) sold out.
2005 31st March
- Opetaia Foa’i wins second place in the World Music category of the US
International Songwriting competition (ISC) with his song “Samulai”
2005
Jan 13th
Opetaia Foa’i is a
finalist in the US International Songwriting competition with “Samulai”
from the “Tutuki” Album and “Pate Pate” from the “Ki mua” album.
2004 September 18th -22nd - Te Vaka travels to Barcelona
of 2 performance at the "International Forum of World Cultures"
2004
August 25th –
The fourth Te Vaka album "Tutuki" wins “Best Pacific Music Album” in
the New Zealand music industry awards
2004 July 6th - 13th - Te Vaka performs at the Rainforest
Festival in Malaysia
2004
May
- 4th Album Tutuki release date 27th May
2004 April
- "Tamahana" video clip out
2003 June - August
- Te Vaka complete their 6th successful tour of Europe and
the UK
2003 - April 8th
The Te
Vaka Nukukehe album is a finalist for “Best roots Album” in the New
Zealand music Industry awards - “The Tui’s”
2003 - January 22nd Te
Vaka is nominated in the prestigious "Audience
Award" Category of the BBC Radio 3 World Music
Awards making them one of the top four World Music groups
in the world as voted by the people.
2002
- October 27th Te Vaka is nominated for a BBC
Radio 3 World Music Award. The
Awards Ceremony is a starstudded event held in London
next March
2002 - August Te Vaka perform to an
audience of more than 20,000 people at Apia Park in
Western Samoa and return to Fiji for a sellour concert in
Nadi. In most of the Pacific Te Vaka is the No.1 group.
2002 - May 31st "Nukukehe" the much awaited third Te Vaka album is
released.
2002 - May Tour to Hawaii - Te Vaka performs to full houses in Honolulu,
Hilo and Maui. Maui News describes Te Vaka as...
"Adrenaline-powered, bare-midriffed, percussion-pulsed, infectiously happy, beautiful people
bringing ancient traditions into the modern world"
2002 - February/March Band leader Opetaia Foa'i goes
to Tuvalu to record some children's voices and to see for himself the
result of Global Warming on Tuvalu
2002 - February The third Te Vaka music video clip - the
'Pate Pate' radio remix goes to air.
2001 July- September Te Vaka arrives in Detroit for the Concert of Colors
which is held every year at the famous Chene Park in Detroit. Te Vaka
was the media icon group for the festival this year and was a favorite with
the capacity crowds at the festival. They then headed off for Europe and
the UK for the fifth year in a row and performed to sell out audiences in
Germany, France, Italy and England before flying to Singapore for the very
successful WOMAD festival
The Hawaiian tour planed for mid September had to be postponed until
next year due to the terrorist actions in the USA. Te Vaka has to date
performed in 25 countries worldwide.
2001 July 3rd Opetaia Foa'i gives an hour long Keynote speech at the
TAONGA of the ASIA PACIFIC RIM International conference for music
educators and receives a standing ovation from the audience.
2001
- March Te Vaka performs in Tasmainia
for the 10 days on an Island festival.
2000 November - Te
Vaka is flown to The Hague by Greenpeace, Friends of the
Earth and the Worldwide fund for nature for COP6 the
United Nations conference on Global Warming and Climate
change. The presence of the band in the Hague puts a face
to the Islands of the South Seas that will be non
-existent within the next 20 years if nothing is done
about the toxic emissions from the bigger countries such
as Europe and the USA. Te Vaka members are invited to be
present during the talks in the Hague and take part in
various demonstrations by Green Peace and the Worldwide
fund for nature as well as performing several concerts for
the people who are at the Hague from all over Europe for
the conference.
2000 September -
Te Vaka returns to New Zealand to start work on the third
album
2000 July -
Te Vaka performs at the WOMAD Festival in Seattle,
winning many fans in the USA and many invitations to
return
2000 May - August Te
Vaka embarks on their fourth successful 12 week tour.
Beginning in May with a sell out tour of Fiji, where Te
Vaka has been at the top of the charts for some time,
they continued on to Europe UK and America delighting and
exciting audiences everywhere. New band member Karika
Turua adds some powerful bass guitar while Sulata Foa'i
Amiatu has rejoined the band to double the vocal power
for this tour. Te Vaka has now performed in a total of 22
countries to date.
2000 7th - 12th May Te
Vaka Fiji tour. Te Vaka performed to capacity audiences
at Suva's national gym and the Morecambo in Fiji.
Tickets sold out well in advance and a third show had to
be arranged at short notice in Suva as many people were
unhappy they had been unable to get tickets and hundreds had been turned away.
2000 March - Te
Vaka performs at the "New Zealand Festival
2000" in Wellington ans is one of the highlights of
this Internationally acclaimed festival
2000 1st January -Te
Vaka brings in the New Millennium for Auckland city with
a 60 minute concert at Okahu Bay in Auckland
1999 December -"Ki
mua" album on top 10 charts around the world with
'Pate Pate' getting airplay worldwide and coming in at
number 3 on the top 99 of 1999 in Fiji.
1999 September -Te
Vaka entertains the world leaders at the APEC ministerial
dinner in Auckland on the 9th of September. The secretary
of State Madeleine Albright could not resist the
infectiousness of the music and was seen dancing the Siva
and singing along to" Ika Ika" at the
Ministerial dinner.
1999 June - September Te Vaka return to the UK and
Europe for a highly successful 12 week tour to promote
their second album resulting in many invitations and
advanced bookings for 2000. The reputation of Te Vaka is
spreading far and wide people from Estonia and Poland to
Scotland and Wales are turning on and tuning in to the
sound of the Pacific. Te Vaka has now performed in more
than 20 countries around the world.
1999 - May "Ki mua" the second Te Vaka
CD is released. Receiving stellar reviews and demands for
the CD from all over the world.
1999 - April Second Te Vaka music video clip is
made. Receiving good airplay on New Zealand Television
and as far a field as Poland 1999 February - Te Vaka
visit Australia for the first time performing at
WOMADELAIDE. Described as ..."a superb band from New
Zealand" they enchanted the crowd with a new and
very exciting show.
1998 - October Te Vaka do their first performance
in a Pacific Island at the Pacific Tempo festival in New
Caledonia.
1998 September - Te Vaka open for Ringo
Starr and the All Stars at a charity Pop concert in
Surrey, England delighting the audience with a taste of
the Pacific. The all stars included Peter Frampton, Gary
Brooker(Procol Harum), Jack Bruce (Cream) And some of the
other performers on the day were - Sir Bob Geldof, Mike
and the Mechanics and Roger Taylor from Queen
1998 - May -September Te Vaka
embarked on a 20 week tour of Europe and UK. After the
first performance of the tour, at the WOMAD Festival in
Caceres, Spain, to ecstatic audiences, Te Vaka was
invited to record at Real World Studios for a release on
the WOMAD Select label. The rest of the tour was
overwhelmingly successful with many invitations to
return.
1998 - March Show cased at the SXSW music/ media
conference in Austin Texas resulting in many offers to
return to America. Massive media interest - Te Vaka was
singled out from 800 bands for Television, a one hour
show on the radio plus a mention in the New York Times.
1997 - 1998 Tour of North and South Island of New
Zealand - extremely successful, confirmed by the music
industry throughout the South Pacific that Te Vaka is the
most exciting original group to come out of the Pacific
area. Demands for Te Vaka coming in from all over the
world.
1997 - June - September The band
embarked on their first 12 week tour of the UK and Europe
stunning and exciting audiences everywhere. They were
named the "stars" of the WOMAD festival in
Morecambe Bay, Lancashire, UK. The band now a 10 piece
for touring - Opetaia, Sulata, Luavasa, Alana, Manase,
Daniel, Andrew, Neil, Simon and Edwin as the permanent
members of the band.
1997 - May First Te Vaka album entitled "Te
Vaka" released in over 80 countries to worldwide
acclaim making the top 10 on several worldmusic charts ,
receiving rave reviews from the USA , UK , Europe and New
Zealand and becoming one of ARC music's all time best
selling albums.
1997 - March Te Vaka performed at the first WOMAD
festival in New Zealand with 14 piece band. Made a major
impact on the public and music industry and received many
offers to perform in New Zealand as well as
internationally . 1997 "Papa e" video clip was
made - receiving good airplay on NZ television.
1996 - 1997 Dancers Etueni Pita, Simona Hope,
Triana Ama and David Hope joined along with Keyboardist/
producer Malcolm Smith and Lutila Kololo on vocals. The
first Te Vaka album was completed and signed to ARC Music
for worldwide distribution. Te Vaka continued to tour New
Zealand. The group became acknowledged as the only band
in New Zealand who could lay claim to "Original,
Contemporary, Pacific Music".
1995 - 1996 Band members Manase, Foa'i, Daniel
Foa'i, Alana Foa'i and Andrew Dukeson joined the group. Te
Vaka toured New Zealand performing "Original,
Contemporary Pacific Music" and dance to delighted
and inspired audiences.
1994 The beginnings of Te Vaka. Core band members
- Opetaia Foa'i, Vasa Foa'i, Neil Forrest & Sulata Foa'i. "Ki
te la" was recorded with an excellent response from
the music industry - internationally as well as
nationally - a demand for more.
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