Some musical groups cover a lot of territory, but it would be hard to outdo Te Vaka: The 12-piece music and dance troupe represents a culture that spans some 16 million square miles of the Earth’s surface: Polynesia. Drawn from the Maori music of New Zealand, the chants of Tahiti and other far-flung outposts within the massive Polynesian Triangle, Te Vaka’s music is both traditional and original, mixing ancient chants and log drumming with modern instrumentation and the forward-looking songwriting of bandleader Opetaia Foa’i
08/20/10
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