ORO ATUA - Puoro Jerome & Ruihaa

Grammy award winning Taonga Puoro Composer and Practitioner Jerome Kavanagh Poutama (Puoro Jerome) hails from Maniapoto - Ngāti Matakore, Mōkai Pātea, Kahungunū, Ngāti Rangi - Whanganui tribes (Māori) as well as the Caomhanach clan (Irish). Jerome joins only a handful of New Zealand musicians as a featured solo artist and lyricist on two time Grammy award winning album "Calling All Dawns" 2011 in "Kia Hora te Marino" (May peace be widespread) recorded at Abbey Road studios, London. Jerome has taken Taonga Puoro all over the world and performed at New York’s prestigious Carnegie Hall, The Lincoln Center, Sydney Opera House, The British Museum, Te Papa Tongarewa National Museum. He has toured extensively throughout thousands of schools in New Zealand over the past 20 years sharing his school show "Power to the Puoro" and is the creator of ORO ATUA™️ Rongoā Puoro