Tagata Pasifika - 2011 Polynesian Blue Pacific Music Awards

It’s Samoan Language Week and Tom Natoealofa says “Talofa!” to kick off Tagata Pasifika's Aotearoa award-nominated coverage of the 2011 Polynesian Blue Pacific Music Awards. Natoealofa co-hosts with Angela Tiatia, from the TelstraClear Pacific (now Vodafone) Events Centre in Manukau. The awards honour everything from gospel to urban. Nesian Mystik take out a trifecta including the big one, and Ladi 6 also wins. In the last clip Annie Crummer picks up a Lifetime Achievement gong, and the Ponsonby Methodist Church Choir perform her song ‘See What Love Can Do’.

It's Samoan Language Week and Tom did you know that Samoan is the second most spoken language in South Auckland?

– Host Angela Tiatia

Key Cast & Crew

Marama T-Pole (née Papau)

Presenter, Co-Director

Nikki Si'ulepa

Co-Director

Ngaire Fuata

Director, Producer

John Pulu

Co-Director

David Krakosky

Technical Manager - Outside Broadcast

Vea Mafile'o

Director - Inserts, Art Director