Scott Oldham may have forgotten his words but he remembered to "get angry" to get his facial expression right during the Waikouaiti School prefromance at the Maori and Pacific island festival at the Edgar Centre. Photo by Stephen Jaquiery.
• Slideshow: Maori and Pacific Island Festival 2009
The two-day festival involves more than 60 performances from 2000 pupils.
Special guests at the festival include three New Zealand hip-hop artists - Feelstyle, King Kapisi and Teremoana Rapley.
Organising committee chairman Whetu Cormick said the festival got better every year.
"When the festival started 16 years ago, it was just five performances in the afternoon."
The festival will continue today, from 9am.
