Island Summer is dedicated to that wave of Pacific migrants who settled in New Zealand in the 1960s.

Band leader Pos Mavaega first played the old island songs to his ailing mum in her hospital room, and then in the shed found a lap steel guitar that his dad had played way back when. He and his talented band, including Tanya Muagututi’a, Hemiquaver Lesatele, Chris Searle, Andrew Sione and Tim Seta, now give the old-school songs and and ballads a contemporary spin.

The Pacific Underground players are often to be found in backing bands for leading NZ musicians — hear them when they come together to sing songs of longing and island stories we can all relate to.

LINKS
www.myspace.com/pacificunderground