Newtown / December 2025
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2025 in numbers!
- Kaicycle
- Numbers by no means tell the whole story, but at the end of another long (and yet somehow short…) gregorian year, we wanted to take a moment to reflect and quantify some of our most significant (and proudest!) achievements of 2025.
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Francesca & Misha
- Newtown Festival
- Francesca Fagan is a Wellington born soprano of Polish descent. She’s just back from Poland, where she took third place in the 20 to 25-year-old category of the Stanisław Jopek International Vocal Competition held by Poland’s prestigious Mazowsze National Folk Song and Dance Ensemble, one of the largest folkloric groups in the world. She is […]
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Manisah
- Newtown Festival
- Newtown-born Manisah is a DJ known for playful, well-curated sets that balance groove, rhythm, and feel-good energy. Her selections move through spectrums of house and tracks from around the world, blending sounds that feel both fresh and familiar. With a strong sense of flow, she builds sets that invite people in. Whether listeners come to […]
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2026 Programme Announcement!
- Newtown Festival
- We are incredibly proud to unveil the lineup for the upcoming Newtown Festival! Heartfelt thanks to our dedicated collaborators for their mahi in bringing you this bill. The Newtown community and the creative community have come together to produce yet another stacked and jam-packed lineup showcasing many talented artists from Newtown and beyond. A huge […]
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Newtown, Wellington, Wellington City, Wellington, New Zealand (OpenStreetMap)
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So So Modern
- Newtown Festival
- So So Modern emerged from the strange happenings of New Zealand’s underground music scene in late 2004. Fuelled by a healthy dose of Southern Hemisphere naivety and good luck, they became one of the most internationally active bands of their era, touring the globe on a string of releases. Shaped by their collective experiences, the […]
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Rugby
- Newtown Festival
- Noise funk laser beam jam sandwich, experimental (mental) dog rock band. Hi we are Rugby. We have come out of the depths of Newtown with crash cymbals, jokes and coherent musical ideas. We love to play music and we love to have you listen to it. Dancing is optional but we’ll tickle you with the […]
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Newtown, Wellington, Wellington City, Wellington, New Zealand (OpenStreetMap)
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Groove Council
- Newtown Festival
- When it comes to the dancefloor, Pōneke-based jazz-house band Groove Council means business. On their agenda is an uninterrupted dose of live, jazz-house dance music guaranteed to keep feet moving and hearts smiling all night long. When in session, they fuse DJ sensibilities with hypnotic soundscapes and jazz-informed improvisational flare to craft relentlessly groovy nonstop […]
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Zuke
- Newtown Festival
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Dillon Jo
- Newtown Festival
- ‘Dillon Jo’ is the genre defying project of Wellington Based artists Betty Smith and Georgie Levien. Dillon Jo built paths between the elements of dream pop, shoegaze, folk, alt rock, and indie pop to create their genre defying sound. Having made quite the stir in Te Whanganui-a-Tara recently, playing numerous shows around the motu. Having […]
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WellyPutt
- Newtown Festival
- WIN FREE MINI GOLF FOR A YEAR! We’ve joined the circus! Wellington’s highest-rated mini golf experience, WellyPutt are heading out and joining the party! Their carnival themed mini-golf hole will be out on the streets of Newtown, giving you the chance to win big! So step right up and test your skills with WellyPutt, and […]
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Mystori
- Newtown Festival
- Mystori serves up a hearty helping of funky house grooves, bouncy bass lines, sweet whispers of hip-hop and nostalgic nonsense. She creates a recipe for maximum mischief, a delicious dance floor, and a potential trip to Chonky Town.
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9cups
- Newtown Festival
- 9cups is the latest musical venture from longtime musician, beatmaker and now emerging DJ, Maz Hermon. 9cups is a house producer & DJ who grew up on boom-bap hip hop but later found a love of dance music through messing around with samplers, synthesisers, and drum machines and jamming with friends. 9cups’ happy place is […]
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Hope
- Newtown Festival
- HOPE is an emerging Māori soul/R&B artist creating honest, emotive music rooted in vulnerability, healing, and self-expression. With a gentle yet powerful voice, her songwriting invites Aotearoa whānui into moments of reflection and connection, marking her as a compelling new voice in Aotearoa’s music landscape.
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Love Party
- Newtown Festival
- Wellington’s Love Party is a punk band that only sings love songs. Led by Kate Yesberg (vocals/bass) and Dayle Jellyman (vocals/guitar), their fuzzy power-pop feels like a children’s birthday party for adults. Energetic, mischievous and down-to-earth, Love Party combine tasty guitar figures and duo vocals with driving drums and irresistible bass lines. The live show […]
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Lala SIMPSON
- Newtown Festival
- Harilalao “Lala” Simpson is a vibrant singer, songwriter, and song leader who grew up in beautiful Madagascar and now calls Aotearoa home. Known for her ready smiles, joyful energy, and mischievous sense of humour, Lala brings music to life wherever she goes. She leads two lively community choirs in Wellington and hosts singing workshops and […]
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Krakerjack
- Newtown Festival
- Captivating audiences since 2022 Krakerjack celebrates Poland’s rich cultural heritage.Rich harmonies, powerful Polish and Yiddish vocals as well as lively dance numbers will stir your souls, get you moving and create a sense of togetherness wherever you are from!
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Mi Casa Su Casa
- Newtown Festival
- These two scallywags have the Welly wind in their sails and a groove in their hearts. They’re the duo behind the capital’s much loved club night, Mi Casa Su Casa, now rockin’ for over 15 years. They’ve also had the pleasure of playing some of NZ’s most legendary shindigs like Shipwrecked, Off The Radar, Kiwiburn, […]
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Dj atu-d2
- Newtown Festival
- Māori female Hip Hop DJ from Otaki, Kapiti Coast
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Burn My Records Crew
- Newtown Festival
- Burn My Records is a Whanganui-a-Tara (Wellington, New Zealand) based alternative music label which specialises in music production and artist development services. Our team is skilled in producing, writing, arranging, sound design and mixing for a wide variety of music projects across a wide number of genres. We believe in fostering talent and supporting artists […]
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Dj Coleoz
- Newtown Festival
- Blending deep grooves with global energy, Dj Coleoz delivers a forward-thinking sound rooted in Amapiano and elevated by R&B and hip-hop influences.
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Tamatha Paul
- Newtown Festival
- From the balcony at CubaDupa to Newtown Festival – Wellington’s favourite politician DJ
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Cuba Street, Te Aro, Wellington, Wellington City, Wellington, 6040, New Zealand (OpenStreetMap)
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Orzeł and Orlęta Dance Ensembles
- Newtown Festival
- Orleta and Orzeł Dance Ensembles are vibrant Polish folk dance groups dedicated to preserving, celebrating, and sharing Polish culture in Aotearoa.
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Bug Michigan
- Newtown Festival
- Bug Michigan is a four piece nose rock / lesbian shoegaze band from Te Whanganui-a-Tara formed by previous members of Maiden Name and Elizabeth Sanctuary Welding school for Girls. Bug Michigan write songs for women, their cats and small little creatures with too many legs. More than anything, Bug Michigan loves you.
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Mayur Dance Academy
- Newtown Festival
- Mayur Dance Academy specialises in teaching Indian classical dance forms – Bharatanatyam and Kathak. Mrs. Suparna Basu is the Director of Mayur Dance Academy, one of the largest Indian classical dance academies in Wellington. The academy conducts classes in Wellington City, Petone, Johnsonville, and Upper Hutt.
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Ska Pai
- Newtown Festival
- Ska Pai are a five-piece ska punk band from Wellington, featuring guitar, vocals, bass, drums & trumpet. Their hyperkinetic live set includes three-part vocal harmonies, catchy brass riffs and overdriven guitars. The band perform original songs fuelled with energy, excitement, and humour, plus a few NZ classic covers with a ska-punk edge. Their first EP […]
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Averie
- Newtown Festival
- Averie’s sound reaches past the common singer-songwriter, delving into the exploration of neo-soul and alternative jazz, filling the void in Aotearoa’s sound and music industry with the melodies that it craves. Charlotte Avery, known professionally as Averie, is a 23-year-old Filipino-Kiwi artist Her music experiments with a unique yet beautiful interplay between luscious vocals, playful […]
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Cindy
- Newtown Festival
- Cindy are the garage rock group of consisting of Scott Brown, James King, Gloria Florence and Jordan Lim, based in Tāmaki Makaurau (Auckland). For nearly a decade Cindy has been toiling in Tāmaki’s independent venues, leading Rolling Stone AUS/NZ to describe them as “the type of unpretentious, if-you-know-you-fucking-know, resolutely DIY band that rewards discovery.” Cindy […]
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inviolet
- Newtown Festival
- Velvety vocals blend with crystal chords and galactic grooves, characterising the lush soundscape created by inviolet. We are an up-and-coming collective of young wāhine and non-binary musicians – our paths have recently intertwined because we share a vision for a band that reflects our personal identities in the world. Most of us are veterans of […]
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Goldenchild
- Newtown Festival
- Goldenchild is surprising and unexpected. Honest songs spanning genres from driving pop-punk rhythms, lush acoustic melodies, and dense funk grooves. Based in the greatest city on earth (Wellington) our unlikely crew Matt – Bass, Chuck – Drums, Mo – Vocals, and Ash – Keys/Trumpet) are proud to make our debut at Newtown Festival East Stage!
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Shifting Centre
- Newtown Festival
- Indigenous artist collective Shifting Centre join forces with dear friends, DJ collective 6IXHAND, to take over the Good World Stage for a night built on rhythm and collective joy. The night opens with a 7 to Smoke, a fast-paced battle format hosted by Shifting Centre that puts Pōneke’s dance community front and centre. Seven dancers […]
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Sara Qasem
- Newtown Festival
- Sara Qasem is a Palestinian poet, community advocate and educator living in Ōtautahi. Her work moves between memory and testimony, drawing on homeland, the inheritances of diaspora and the everyday acts of resistance that help her people endure. She writes toward the places where grief and resilience meet, believing that poetry can be both archive […]
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Newtown festival
- Seeds to Feeds
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Newtown Harvest Festival
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Enter Through the Coffee Shop - Razor Taser Laser
- Black Coffee
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