Newtown / January 2026
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Squiggla Making Space
- Newtown Festival
- A creative gymnasium for young and oldon Donald McLean Street. Respond with improv playful mark making to the festival’s dance, music and street sensations.
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First Reserve
- Newtown Festival
- First Reserve is inevitable. Before adopting the moniker in 2023, Ryan Connaghan had been prolifically writing music that communicated their experiences in life, love, and loneliness. These themes are all approached on songs like “Last One” and “Me & My Friends” – the first offerings from First Reserve’s debut EP “There’s A God” set for […]
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Mercury Fèng
- Newtown Festival
- Mercury Fèng (formerly Fèng) transports listeners to intimate dreamscapes by weaving together threads of yearning and introspection with shimmery synths, fuzz-laced guitars and her glassy vocals. In April 2025, MF self-released the album ‘archive for humble stones’, which saw the single ‘Heaving’ featured on the NTS Breakfast Show hosted by Flying Nun Records x Tonic. […]
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Makayla
- Newtown Festival
- Signed to renowned, multi-platinum Aotearoa band SIX60’s Massive Recordslabel, 21-year old Makayla is defining what it means to be a new generation Māoripopstar.
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Club Medder
- Newtown Festival
- Club Medder is a DJ, producer and broadcaster born and raised in Te Whanganui-a-Tara. A lover of all things electronic since his youth. Influenced heavily by early drum & bass culture in New Zealand from the early 2000’s, then the raving house and techno scenes of Europe in his late teens and early 20’s. Combining […]
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Joseph Pod
- Newtown Festival
- In a country where guitar-driven indie and Kiwi hip hop have long dominated the soundscape, Afrobeats remains a genre bubbling just beneath the surface. But Joseph Pod is ready to change that. Hailing from Wellington, New Zealand, and proudly Ethiopian-bred, Joseph Pod is more than just a singer-songwriter. He is a cultural force in the […]
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Star Time
- Newtown Festival
- Wellington’s own 10 piece Afrobeat Jazz powerhouse, Star Time, have been setting the city’s dancefloors on fire since their debut at the WLG Jazz Festival in 2024. They have just come fresh out of the studio where they finalised their debut album, to be released later this year.In 2025, Star Time embarked on an unprecedented […]
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Imani-J
- Newtown Festival
- Haitian New Zealand teen Imani-J is already carving out a powerful voice in the Afrofusion and R&B scene. An artist in the truest sense of the word – singer, songwriter, dancer and performer. Imani-J’s music brings you to a world of rich lyrical vulnerability and smooth melodies with vibrant and rhythmic beats. It’s a sonic […]
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Ria Hall
- Newtown Festival
- Ria Hall emerged onto the Aotearoa music scene in 2011 as a commanding, uncompromising voice. An award-winning artist, she is known for fusing hip hop, roots, and soul energy with richly layered vocals in te reo Māori and English, creating a sound that is cinematic, confrontational, and deeply grounded in story. Her music refuses neat […]
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Kenzie From Welly
- Newtown Festival
- Kenzie From Welly is a proud Samoan-Māori artist whose music is deeply rooted in culture, community, and creativity. Born and raised in Pōneke (Wellington), Kenzie carries the vibrant rhythms of her whakapapa in every verse and melody.A natural storyteller, Kenzie weaves together her love for the arts, a strong sense of synergy, and a deep […]
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