Star-studded line-up announced for Pasifika Fest
Wednesday, 25 January 2014,
Star-studded line-up announced for Pasifika Festival 2014
Auckland City is proud to announce a star-studded line-up for the 2014 Pasifika Festival that features a mix of hot headline acts and budding future stars handpicked from the Expressions Pasifika auditions held last November.
The free Air New Zealand Opening Night Concert will be held on Friday 10 March from 7.30pm to 9.30pm at Western Springs Stadium and promises a snapshot of some of the festival’s hottest performers. It will showcase the vast array of Pasifika traditional dance and contemporary song, while also having an emphasis on the cultural roots of some of the Pacific Islands involved with the festival. The line-up of entertainers confirmed for this concert includes:
Tha Feelstyle – a Samoan-born hip hop artist who cleaned up three awards at last year’s Pacific Music Awards
Nesian Mystik – founded in the music room of Auckland’s Western Springs College in 1999, the group is a cultural mix of Polynesia, bringing together Maori, Tongan, Samoan and Cook Island ancestry. Their infectious blend of Pasifika-infused R ‘n’ B and hip-hop saw their 2002 album ‘Polysaturated’ go four times platinum and they have the unprecedented achievement in recent New Zealand pop history of having four singles achieve Top Ten status
Adeaze – a two-piece R’n’B duo whose debut album went to number 1 on the NZ album charts and gained double platinum status selling over 37,000 copies. Mariah Carey sampled their production of (A Life with You) on her latest Award winning Album, “The Emancipation of Mimi”
Sara-Jane Auva’a – winner of ‘Best Female Pacific Artist” at the 2005 Pacific Music Awards and hugely popular Pasifika Festival performer. Sara-Jane has a new Pacific sound that fuses R’n’B, hip hop and classic Pacific Island rhythm. She has recently returned from a successful tour of the United States
Julie Ta’ale – a solo performer who sings contemporary R’n’B. She is a former member of girl group Pacific Soul who won the Best Pacific Album at the NZ Music awards 2003
