Kia ora koutou

Please forgive me for any errors here. If you can send me any corrections or additions to be added here, I would be most grateful.

My hobby has been learning about songs of the rural white New Zealand way of life. I started this NZ Folk Song website to make information about these Pakeha songs available to others.

But people kept e-mailing me to ask for information about Māori songs. So I started this page to help my visitors. And it has grown to become my most visited page by far, with 9000 visitors a month.

To find out about different versions of old Maori songs, I search the NZ National Library's online database.

And I'm finding a wealth of information about waiata in all twenty years of copies of Te Ao Hou that are online.

The most useful printed resource I have for words and translations is Waiata Maori by the late Toby Rikihana. This is a compilation of about 300 waiata for primary and secondary school teachers of te Reo Māori. If you are in NZ, you can hunt for it at your local library or Kohange Reo. Here is how you can buy it.

I also have these Maori songbooks too. If you would like me to hunt through them for you, e-mail me.

John Archer
Ngati Tumatauenga
Waiouru