Newtown Festival / January 2025
This 10 day extravaganza will celebrate the diversity and vibrancy of Newtown, where so many cultures experience a real sense of place, belonging and community.
February 2025 | December 2024-
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Kennedy
- Newtown Festival
- Hailing from Nelson ,New Zealand Gene Kennedy aka Kennedy is a multi genre Live artist , DJ , Producer and Record label owner . With multiple record releases over the last 15 years on seminal House labels like ,King St, Nite Grooves, Block Head, Moonbootique (Germany) Paper Recordings and newer, but established labels like Funky […]
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Benjamin Bunny
- Newtown Festival
- Benjamin Bunny loves playing intriguing sets which weave their way through filthy, funky, chonky and obscure Bass Breaks, Bass House, Electro House, Indie Dance and Driving Techno. His sets are littered with electro and hip-hop styles, paired with an obsession for grimy mechanical bass, out the gate rhythms and punchy syncopated drumbeats. As a DJ […]
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Lord Woo
- Newtown Festival
- Straight outta Brighton, UK, behold the tale of Lord Woo – a DJ with more titles than a medieval fantasy novel. Once a mere peasant with beats as humble as his origins, he stumbled upon the deal of a lifetime: a Lordship for a mere 50 pence. A steal, some might say, and Lord Woo […]
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Ed
- Newtown Festival
- Dancing and djing. I like to play music I like to dance to that i vibe to. It’s generally a good thing. But sometimes disastrous. You really don’t know till you get there. That’s where I get anyway. It’s good. Generally. Sometimes not. You can’t expect to know. But I put in my best effort. […]
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Stefrose
- Newtown Festival
- From Los Angeles now living in Te Whanganui-a-Tara, Stefrose brought their turntablist roots, establishing an iconic style of smooth blends and slick transitions amongst Pōneke gig space. Inspired by their cultural diaspora, Stefrose melds sounds from various influences: bboy breakbeats, bay area, b-more, jersey, funk, club house, latin cumbia / reggaeton, pilipino OPM, kpop and […]
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Groove Council
- Newtown Festival
- Adored among the venues and boardrooms of Pōneke, 5-piece jazz-house disco band Groove Council means business. On their agenda is an uninterrupted dose of live, jazz-house dance music that’s sure to keep feet moving and hearts smiling all night long. When in session, the council fuses DJ sensibilities with live band flare and jazz-informed improvisation, […]
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Tawaz
- Newtown Festival
- Tawaroa Kawana (Rangitāne), known as TAWAZ, is a dynamic Māori artist who grew up in Te Papaioea. As a singer- songwriter, TAWAZ passionately champions te reo Māori through his music, collaborating with renowned artists like Stan Walker, Jackson Owens, Sons of Zion, and many more. His contributions to Māori music have been recognised with the […]
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Tawa, Wellington, New Zealand (OpenStreetMap)
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Gina Kiel – Tidal Bodies Solo Show
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- Gina Kiel’s first solo exhibition, Tidal Bodies, explores themes of cyclical change and transformation. Free-flowing sketches are refined into paintings, as fluid forms grow into entities of their own. Through these paintings, Kiel is channelling archetypal beings who pulse with constant motion. Optical patterns are paired with soft, introspective features, giving shape and colour to […]
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Twentysix Gallery’s 4th Birthday Celebration
- Newtown Festival
- Celebrate Twentysix Gallery’s 4th birthday during Newtown Festival! Twentysix Gallery presents Gina Kiel’s first solo exhibition, Tidal Bodies, with lush sounds by Sqeaky Wheels. Gina Kiel’s first solo exhibition, Tidal Bodies, explores themes of cyclical change and transformation. Free-flowing sketches are refined into paintings, as fluid forms grow into entities of their own. Through these […]
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Newtown, Wellington, Wellington City, Wellington, New Zealand (OpenStreetMap)
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Jhl
- Newtown Festival
- JHL is an Auckland-based producer specialising in the cross-section of pop and electronic.
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Nam Chucks
- Newtown Festival
- DJ, Selector, MC and Radio Host, Nam Chucks has a deep appreciation and respect for Soundsystem culture, dedication herself to creating magical and conscious vibrations within the dance. Music serves as her hearer, creator, protector and destroyer of negativity.
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U.h.p.
- Newtown Festival
- For almost 40 years U.H.P. / Upper Hutt Posse have been creating powerful and inspirational music to challenge the status quo giving voice to progressive radicalism and the fight for justice in Aotearoa and around the world. Bursting onto the national scene in 1988 with their debut single ‘E Tū’. It was the first rap […]
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Upper Hutt, Upper Hutt City, Wellington, 5218, New Zealand (OpenStreetMap)
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调酒师bartendess
- Newtown Festival
- My DJ identity, bartendESS/bartendERS, is a music bartender who moved their mixing lab from Shanghai to Te Whanganui-a-Tara. Starting from bedroom and subway since early 2020 lockdown time, I enjoyed collecting everyday and archaic materials from actual & digital life to mix into a strong cocktail with open-form genres, rhythms, and vocals. Flavored with instruments […]
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Sujai
- Newtown Festival
- Sujai is an India-born, New Zealand-raised rapper, singer, and music producer known for pushing the boundaries of genre. Rooted in hip-hop, Sujai creates a diverse range of music, blending rock, R&B, electronic, and more into a unique sound. Whether delivering raw, unfiltered energy or diving into introspective storytelling, Sujai’s music captures a range of emotions, […]
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Badtab
- Newtown Festival
- BADTAB is the New Zealand based neo-psychedelic project of multi-instrumentalists Ethan Downing, Hamish Mckinley, Manaaki Tibble, Kahukuranui Hunter-Brown and Louis Nixon. Weaving kaleidoscopic synthesizers and swirling guitar strums with rock and jazz inspired drum beats, BADTAB casts a stone across the plains of the sonic ether.
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rizzo
- Newtown Festival
- Alice is a sound engineer and dj based in Te Whanganui-a-Tara. Rizzo is kind of whatever, it depends on the time, context, and space she’s playing. Expect anything under the techno umbrella
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J Swizzle
- Newtown Festival
- J Swizzle is a Pōneke based dj with a particular love for breaks bass and hard style booty beats. Following in the footsteps of his mother, he’s been throwing down tunes for the past 12 months and quickly making a name for himself in the local scene. If you’re looking to dance, J Swizzle’s set […]
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Dj desi
- Newtown Festival
- This act is a fusion of Bollywood/English/Bhangra Music. The best thing about being a DJ is making people happy. There is nothing like seeing people get up from a table to dance or the expression on their face when they hear a song they love. I also love to educate people on music they have […]
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Manisah
- Newtown Festival
- Manisah is a DJ and sound dreamer who weaves captivating musical landscapes for her audiences. Her journey as an artist was profoundly shaped by her time in Berlin, where the city’s vibrant electronic scene exposed her to a kaleidoscope of genres, further igniting her passion. Today, she masterfully blends silky downtempo grooves with moody melodic […]
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Body Beat Ritual
- Newtown Festival
- Body Beat Ritual’s take on techno is a stripped back sound-world of pulsating body rhythms, pummelling drums and hypnotic vocals cut up and fused back together, like hacked satellite feeds beamed in from his isolated base on planet Earth’s flip-side. On stage, expect analog synth signal paths cut through with pounding vintage digital drum machines. […]
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Taikoza Wellington
- Newtown Festival
- Taikoza is a Wellington-based Taiko drumming group that brings the powerful rhythms and spirit of traditional Japanese Taiko to life. Originally formed in Hiroshima in the mid-1980s, the group has been based in Wellington since 1991, performing at iconic festivals and events such as Blossom Valley, CubaDupa, and the annual Lunar New Year Festival. Taikoza’s […]
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Cuba Street, Te Aro, Wellington, Wellington City, Wellington, 6040, New Zealand (OpenStreetMap)
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