The winner of the Tui Aotearoa Music Award for 2022 Te Kaipuoro Taketake Toa Best Folk Artist is Troy Kingi. This latest album Black Sea Golden Ladder is a collaboration between himself and award-winning singer/songwriter/producer Delaney Davidson. Davidson, alongside Jol Mulholland, won 2021's Te Kaiwhakaputa Toa Best Producer Tui for the same album. Black Sea Golden Ladder consists of free-form compositions set to ten original poems documenting the life cycle of humankind. Kingi has also collaborated with Hi Mama Productions to produce a thought-provoking visual representation of the album that explores an existential life experience.
Kiwi folk duo Tattletale Saints win second Tūī at Auckland Folk Festival
31 Jan, 2021 09:45 PM
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Wanganui Midweek
Tennessee-based New Zealand duo Tattletale Saints won the 2021 Tui for Te Kaipuoro Taketake Toa, Best Folk Artist at the Auckland Folk Festivalon the weekend.
The group won for their third studio album, Dancing Under The Dogwoods. This is the second time the duo has won Best Folk Artist, winning in 2014 for their album How Red Is The Blood.
Made up of Cy Winstanley and Vanessa McGowan, Tattletale Saints crafted an album which showcases the band s perfectly intertwined harmony vocals and Winstanley s clever yet emotional songwriting.