Reuniting The Paki Quartet… Paki Up

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Wednesday, 20 July 2011

Reuniting The Paki Quartet… Paki Up!

The Homai Te Pakipaki 2011 season is about to “paki up” for the year but just before we head into the semi-finals we will be featuring some very special guests.

Heats wrap up at the end of this month so Homai Te Pakipaki are bringing back the popular Paki Quartet for a one-off special episode airing live on Friday 5 August at 8.30pm to 10pm.

Join Homai Te Pakipaki for an entertaining night where viewers can take a break from the text voting and just enjoy the music. As well as the Paki Quartet we bring back some of the more memorable and stand-out contestants from previous heats who might not have won in the text votes but impressed the producers.

Producer Erina Tamepo says: “We’re giving them another platform to perform on before they go back to their everyday lives.”

You may remember the Paki Quartet from last year’s grand final and they also kicked off this year’s Homai Te Pakipaki season. The quartet is made up of experienced musicians Leon Wharekura, Chris Powley, Tumanako Farrell and Thomas Stowers.

Erina Tamepo says the four musicians have always been good friends and have vaast experience performing independently, but they had never performed together until they were brought together as the Paki Quartet.

She says the Paki Quartet “lifted the lid” off the Logan Campbell Centre last year and she is looking forward to having them perform on the show again next month.

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