“He tono tēnei nāku kia ruku tāua ki te wai;
ki te tūhura i te mana me te kaha o te whakaraerae.”
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Kua tonoa e te kaiwaiata Māori rongonui nei a TEEKS (Te Karehana Toi-Gardiner) āna kaiwhaiwhai huri i Aotearoa ki ‘The Invitation Tour’, tana haereere kōkuhunga whakahirahira me tētahi konohete motuhake, noho tūmatawhāiti anō hoki; he mea āta whakaritea anō hei wheako motuhake.
He mea whakaturia ai ki ētahi wāhi rerehua huri i te motu, ka arahina ngā whakaminenga e TEEKS ki te ao o āna waiata hou, he mea ka whakarewahia i te Huitanguru 2021 mā roto atu i a Sony Music Entertainment, New Zealand. He mea waihanga mā te whakaminenga iti, he kōpiripiri ngā tīkiti ki ēnei whakaaturanga iti, urukati anō hoki, waihoki, kāore he pānuitanga mō ētahi atu rā mō tēnei haereere.
Kuhu whakaroto ana ki ngā tuawhenua o Aotearoa, ka whakangahau tahi a TEEKS me te te rōpu whakatangitangi o Black Quartet me Nick Dow kei runga piana, ki ētahi wāhi nui te hītori pēnei i a St Mary’s-in-Holy Trinity ki Tāmaki Makaurau, ka whakakapia ki ētahi whakaaturanga kura ā kāinga ki St Luke’s Church i Hokianga.
Mā te whakamātau i te māorooro me te ariā o ngā wāhi, he mea āta whakaritea ai a ‘The Invitation Tour’ hei kukume mai i ngā whakaminenga hau kāinga ki te ao o TEEKS.
He whakaaturanga na Sony Music Entertainment & Spark:
TEEKS
The Invitation Tour
He mea tautokohia ki te piana me te tokowhā aho ki ngā wāhi ahurei, rūmaki, tāpui anō hoki o Aotearoa
Rāpare 3 o Hakihea | The Piano | ŌTAUTAHI
Rāmere 4 o Hakihea | St Mary’s-in-Holy Trinity | TĀMAKI MAKAURAU
Rātapu 6 o Hakihea | Old St Paul’s | TE WHANGANUI Ā TARA
Rātū 8 o Hakihea | Baycourt Addison Theate | TAURANGA
Rāhoroi 12 o Hakihea | St Luke’s Church, Pakanae | HOKIANGA (he whakaaturanga awatea, pō anō hoki)
E HOKONA ANA NGĀ TĪKITI HOKO TŌMUA A TE KAITAURMA INĀIANEI – HOKONA KI KONEI
E HOKONA ANA NGĀ TĪKITI TŪMATAWHĀNUI I TE RĀHINA 16 O WHIRINGA-Ā-RANGI – 12PM
Mō ngā taipitopito katoa mō te haereere me ngā tīkiti, haere ki a thisteeks.com.
NGĀ KŌRERO MŌ TEEKS:
He whetu maiangi te kaiwaiata- kaitito Māori o Aotearoa a TEEKS, i rewa ki tōna rongonuitanga-ā-motu i te tau 2017 nō te whakaputanga o tana kōpae kōkuhunga ‘The Grapefruit Skies.’ He mea āta tūhura anō i te aroha me te korenga, mā roto i te tirohanga urutapu a te ohinga me te reo oro o te ngākau kua whakaaweawetia e ngā oro maha nō roto i ngā whakareanga ki muri, ā, nā ‘The Grapefruit Skies’ i whakatuwherahia ai ki a TEEKS, ngā tatau ki te motu. Ko te mea i totoka ai te kaupapa, ko āna konohete tonu – he mea wāhia e tōna whakamā takune te huarahi ki tētahi āhuatanga whakaraerae me uaua ka rongo, ā, ko te ihirangaranga he kaha: he mea tiaho iho te māramatanga o te wheako motuhake, nō roto mai i ngā aupiki me ngā auheke o te oranga o te tangata.
E rua tau i muri mai, he mea whakapoapoahia e TEEKS ngā minenga maha huri i Aotearoa, Ahitereiria me Peretānia, me tana kohikohi i ngā tohu whakahirahira, whakaingoatanga ā motu anō hoki pēnei i ‘Te Kaiwaiata Māori Toa’ i ngā tohu Vodafone New Zealand Music Awards. I te kōtihi o tana whakaputanga tuatahi, i tū a TEEKS i te hōro matua o Tāmaki Makaurau ngātahi me te rōpu whakatangitangi a te Auckland Philharmonia – mō tana whakaaturanga nui taioreore.
Nō muri mai i a ‘The Grapefruit Skies’, ka hoki atu a TEEKS ki te taupuni mō tētahi wā kainatu, ā, ko te otinga atu ko te tipunga whakapakari o tōna āhua ake me ōna pūkenga toi. Ka kitea e ia te oranga ngākau o te tūohu ki ōna tairongo whatumanawa, te wewete i te taha tautāne i pāngia nei e te aupēhitanga, me te aro ki te mata rua o Te Ao Māori: ko te tirohanga tēnei o tōna iwi taketake.
He mea whakatairangahia e Vogue (nāna i tapa i a TEEKS ki “Tā Aotearoa Kaiwaiata Hiringa Me Mōhio Ai Te Tangata”), ā, ko āna kohinga waiata o mohoa nei a ‘Without You’ me ‘I’, he kohinga tāpiri e whā nei ngā waiata huatau mō te aroha me te tuakiri tangata e āta tohu ana i tana kōpae kōkuhunga ka whakaputaina i te Huitanguru 2021.
Nō te ao e noho iho nei pea i te pari o te panonitanga whakaongaonga, ka uia e TEEKS kia titiro whakaroto tātau ki a tātau anō, kia hono anō ki te mea ngaro. Ko te mātāpuna o te whatumanawa he hōhonu, engari me kuhu tonu e te tangata kei tūponohia ngā āhuatanga motuhake o te tangata.
“I invite you to enter the water with me;
to discover the power and strength that lies in vulnerability.”
Critically acclaimed Māori artist TEEKS (Te Karehana Gardiner-Toi) invites fans across New Zealand to ‘The Invitation Tour’, his debut headlining tour and a special, up-close and personally curated concert experience.
Set in some of the most beautiful venues around the country, TEEKS ushers audiences into the realm of his new music, set for release in February 2021 via Sony Music Entertainment New Zealand. Designed for an intimate audience experience, tickets to this small and exclusive run of shows are extremely limited with no announcement of additional dates for this tour.
Winding through New Zealand’s heartland, TEEKS will perform accompanied by the acclaimed Black Quartet and Nick Dow on piano, in five historic venues such as the iconic St Mary’s-in-Holy Trinity in Auckland, finishing up for a series of precious hometown shows at St Luke’s Church in Hokianga.
Playing with the natural reverberation and ambience of the venues, ‘The Invitation Tour’ has been carefully curated to bring hometown audiences into TEEKS’ space.
Sony Music Entertainment & Spark presents:
TEEKS
The Invitation Tour
Backed by piano and string quartet in some of Aotearoa’s most unique, immersive and intimate venues
Thursday 3 December | The Piano | Christchurch
Friday 4 December | St Mary’s-in-Holy Trinity | Auckland
Sunday 6 December | Old St Paul’s | Wellington
Tuesday 8 December | Baycourt Addison Theatre | Tauranga
Saturday 12 December | St Luke’s Church, Pakanae | Hokianga (matinee and evening show)
ARTIST PRESALE TICKETS ON SALE NOW – PURCHASE HERE
GENERAL TICKETS ON SALE MONDAY 16 NOVEMBER – 12pm
For complete tour and ticket information, visit: thisteeks.com
ABOUT TEEKS:
New Zealand Māori singer-songwriter TEEKS emerged to national acclaim in 2017 with the release of his debut EP ‘The Grapefruit Skies’. A concise exploration of love and loss, as rendered through the naivety of youth and a soulful musical vocabulary informed by music across generations, ‘The Grapefruit Skies’ opened doors for TEEKS across his home country. What really sealed the deal though, was his concerts, where an ostensible initial shyness quickly gave way to a rare level of vulnerability – vibrating with an intensity that creates deeply relatable meaning out of life’s moments of pain and pleasure.
Over the next two years, TEEKS captivated audiences across New Zealand, Australia and the United Kingdom, while collecting several prestigious local music awards and nominations, most notably ‘Best Māori Artist’ at the Vodafone New Zealand Music Awards. At the apex of his first wave, TEEKS played the Auckland Town Hall, bringing the Auckland Philharmonic Orchestra with him for a historical sold-out performance.
After ‘The Grapefruit Skies’, TEEKS returned to the studio for an introspective period of hard-won personal and artistic growth. He found solace in a complete surrender to emotion, the rejection of colonised masculinity, and the duality of Te Ao Māori: the worldview of his indigenous people.
Celebrated by Vogue (who declared TEEKS as “New Zealand’s Soulful Singer To Know”), his most recent material including single ‘Without You’ and ‘I’, an accompanying four-track collection of elegant songs about love and self-knowledge, point the way to his forthcoming debut album, due for release in February 2021.
As the world sits on the precipice of potentially poignant change, TEEKS asks that we might look inside ourselves and reconnect with what we’ve lost. The waters of emotion have never run deeper, but as we enter their depths, we might just rediscover what really matters.
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