Waiata Mai

Free event

Join Loopy Tunes for a fun and interactive concert for tamariki, with a bilingual Māori focus. The whole whānau can groove along to some awesome waiata.

Loopy Tunes (Preschool) Music are Christchurch-based sister music duo, Siu Williams-Lemi and Leah Williams-Partington. The sisters are recognised for their reorua/bilingual Māori and Pasifika children’s waiata, sung in their beautifully harmonious style.

They had their start in children’s music through a weekly outreach preschool music programme they helped create, thirteen years ago, which continues still – now running six weekly bilingual music sessions during the school term.

In 2019, the sisters recorded and released their first 13-track children’s music album, “Kākāriki: Simply Us” and to date have released a total of 147 waiata. The releases also include their “Kōwhai: Kōrero Mai” EP, a collaboration with Aotearoa’s most loved Aunty, Suzy Cato, and the team at Ko Taku Reo: Deaf Education NZ, who created some beautiful music videos for the project! “Kōwhai” is a 4-song collection of simple waiata that helps to encourage tamariki to learn Māori in a fun and very interactive way.


This event is part of The Arts Centre's School Holiday Fun (13 - 28 April), a lively programme packed full with events to nurture creativity, spark imagination and entertain pre-schoolers through to teens.
Find the whole programme on www.artscentre.org.nz/whats-on/school-holiday-fun/