BIG HORNS: Biggest Horn Section, Biggest Hits: with Boh Runga, Che Fu, Ria Hall, & Kings.

'BIG HORNS’ Aotearoa’s biggest and best horn section, live remixing the biggest hits, is hitting Auckland!

Journey through the funkiest grooves of the
90s and 00s with Kiwi music royalty and NZ’s
biggest and best horn section

*** Featuring: Boh Runga, Che Fu, Ria Hall, Kings ***

BIG HORNS hits the iconic POWERSTATION in Auckland this October!

Music lovers will witness Aotearoa’s biggest and best horn section, alongside homegrown sensations, journeying through the funkiest and Biggest R&B and hip-hop grooves of the last few decades.

This is a new and unique, high energy, original musical experience, not to be missed. Saturday October 12 sees Boh Runga, Che Fu, Ria Hall, and Kings performing with an incredible 22-piece live band, including a magnificent 10-piece horn section.

At the helm are two of New Zealand music’s most pivotal figures, musical director Dixon Nacey and trumpeter and arranger for the brass section, Mike Booth.

Coming together for just one night only, the headliners - including living R&B, reggae, hip-hop legend Che Fu; award-winning soul, R&B sensation Ria Hall; and hip-hop chart-topper Kings will take the audience on a deep dive into some of the greatest hip-hop and R&B tunes from the 90s and 2000s.

With back-to-back hits - think new dynamic live arrangements of Warren G’s ‘Regulate’, Tupac’s ‘California Love’, Mary J Blige’s ‘Family Affair’, Blackstreet’s ‘No Diggity’, Ginuwine’s ‘Pony’, House of Pain’s ‘Jump Around’ and much much more) - BIG HORNS promises to be a non-stop party of epic proportions.

Don’t miss this one-of-a-kind event featuring a top class cast of New Zealand singing and rapping royalty, alongside New Zealand’s most accomplished horn players and live musicians.

Che-fu
With the most top ten songs of any individual in New Zealand music history, Che-fu is one of the country’s most successful and beloved recording artists.
Originally coming to the attention of Aotearoa NZ in the early 90’s as one of the original members of iconic kiwi rock band Supergroove, Che went on to forge a career as a solo-artist writing and recording hip hop/soul chart topping songs such as “Chains” and “Misty Frequencies”, and platinum selling albums such as “2b S. Pacific” and “The Navigator”.

Kings
New Zealand born producer, rapper, singer, songwriter, KINGS burst onto the scene in 2016 with his single ‘Don’t Worry ‘Bout it’. The track went on to become the biggest local release that year, selling triple platinum, surpassing the record for longest running #1 on the New Zealand Singles Chart from Lorde, by spending 33 consecutive weeks at the top.

Ria Hall
With the release of her debut self-titled EP in 2011, Ria Hall became a blazing female force on the NZ music scene. Winning multiple awards and critical acclaim, her sound fused furious hip-hop beats and richly layered vocals in te reo Maori and English, creating an epic soundscape that embraced and challenged multiple genres. Her background is entrenched deeply in traditional Maori performing arts having spent the best part of a decade with the iconic Te Waka Huia.