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RNZ News
12 hours ago
- Health
- RNZ News
Death of MP Takutai Tarsh Kemp brings parliament together
te ao Maori 22 minutes ago The sudden death of MP Takutai Tarsh Kemp in the early hours of this morning has brought members from across the house together today. Flags in the capital have been flying at half mast for the Te Pati Maori MP for Tamaki Makarau, who was at parliament just yesterday. Takutai Tarsh Kemp, who recently celebrated her 50th birthday, revealed she was diagnosed with kidney disease last year. Acting political editor Craig McCulloch reports.
RNZ News
01-06-2025
- Entertainment
- RNZ News
"There's power in the circle" Global folk phenomena Bulgarian
music arts 12:32 pm today In 1988 a choir founded in the '50s Soviet socialist era, the Bulgarian State Television Female Vocal Choir released the album Le Mystère Des Voix Bulgares. It won them a Grammy, turned them into an unlikely global sensation and is said to have helped birth the genre World music. Kate Bush recorded with them that same year, and David Bowie and his wife Iman even chose one of their songs to replace 'Here Comes the Bride' at their wedding. Today, that choir is part of a distinctive international cultural phenomenon revitalising a Bulgarian women's folk tradition. In August Aotearoa ensemble, Medena will travel to Bulgaria for the first time to undertake a study tour and perform at what their conductor Tui Mamaki describes as the once in every five years "Te Matatini of Bulgaria". They will be singing with their idols. Before they go, Medena perform at Tamaki Makarau's Ellen Melville Hall Sunday 8 June. This week we were privileged to host nine members to sing in the RNZ studio, and Mark Amery is joined by leader Tui Mamaki in conversation. .
