Music Portrait of a Humble Disabled Samoan is the new show telling the story of Fonotī Pati Umaga, the bassist for the Holidaymakers in the 1980s, who after a fall in 2005 was left a tetraplegic. Fonotī Pati Umaga went on to become a prominent disability advocate, recognised with a QSM.
Premiering in March as part of the Auckland Arts Festival, the show explores the challenges that came from that life changing incident, and the healing power of music.
Fonotī Pati Umaga is joined by the shows award-winning theatre director Maiava Nathanial Lees.
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