Tena koe Ehoa’s Haeremai i Nomo Nei. Greetings all, come sit yourselves down.

Mana (Auckland), Volume 2, Issue 4, 18 May 1978, Page 8

Tena koe Ehoa’s Haeremai i Nomo Nei. Greetings all, come sit yourselves down.

Seals and Croft Concert - - Last Monday night’s performance confirmed, to the many "Seals and Croft" fans, which direction they have taken "Baha'i" faith. For me they treated the crowd to a changing course from raunchy rock and roll to a more disco beat to the soaring poetic vocals that is the trademark. Although the sound system started off badly it was a worthwhile night as the duo played to a packed house, in that tin of sardines place they call the Town Hall. Nothing was left out as they treated the crowd to mostly new material, sprinkled with a medley of their famiiar hits like. Summer Breeze, Diamond Girl, Humming Bird, We May Never and even adding a piece of Ho down Hog calling foot stomping Texas Tea. (Which is as foreign to me as Muldoon coming up to Bastion Point). The backing was highlighted by some soaring sax leads, some funky bass riffs and the fiddle playing of Seals. They may have disappointed a few fans but to me they were "Kapai". Alec Hawke PAPA — the band of the land continues to entertain the people of Aotearoa. Besides playing at MANA’s next fundraising social on Friday 19th, the month of May provides social gigs for the band to let loose its unrestricted sound for ail, young and old to hear. This is an appreciated change after playing to pub crowds for the last two months.

On Saturday 13th. PAPA provided entertainment assistance for a group of Seddon High School pupils raising funds for a trip to Rarotonga. Saturday 20th, PAPA will be performing at Te Atatu South Community Centre for a Marae project and on Saturday the 27th, back at the ol' railway hall, Newmarket. There the social will be to raise funds for a youth delegation to Cuba. The band likes playing Social

work especially if it is helping others who are helping others. Whangarei readers will be able to taste the group’s indigenous funk when they visit Ngapuhi territory to perform at the Henry Bth nite-club on June 29, 30, and July 1. Tongan muso Nani Wolfgramme now leader of a resident band in the U.S. of A., recently revisited New Zealand for the first time in seven years. Since 1970 Nan i has been strumming up all the way to a residency at San Digeo’s plush Hilton Hotel. This is a great cord change from playing a ukelele made from a coconut shell as a schoolboy in Nei’afu, Vavau to wooing crowds in Las Vegas, Hollywood, South-East Asia and San Diego with his Hawaiian gat. He has just completed an album with Air New Zealand’s backing but on his departure he commented that the AIR in New Zealand was too cold and the prices too expensive.

Rotorua entertainerentrepreneur Wi Wharekura does not want more “plastic” Maori shows or just another smorgasboard hangi for visiting tourists. Visiting maraes where real Maoris will provide lively experience for the guests is the alternative being put forward by Wi who also presents the nighly Maori performances at the old Tudor Towers.

Yes, it is about time N.Z. presented the true picture of Maoridom for the world to see just as the Bastion Point issue is doing at present. Mana wishes Wi and others, all the support it can give for those who ENTERTAIN WITH TRUTH and REALITY rather than with artificial replicas like the plastic tiki made in Japan and distributed on Air New Zealand flights.

Write to MANA Musical C-- Editor Mr J. D. Karaka 7 Rowena Crescent Glen Innes or MANA office, Auckland