Announcing The 2025 Lineup

It’s the Newtown Festival 2025 programme!

We’re super proud to bring to you the lineup for Newtown Festival on Sunday 2 March 2025 (the best event in Te Whanganui-a-Tara). It will be the 31st Newtown Festival, and the 29th in the streets. Thank you to our superb collaborators for their mahi. The local community and creative community have woven together another stunning as well as extreme lineup. A gazillion incredible artists from across the motu will grace the streets of Newtown (the best suburb in Te Whanganui-a-Tara) bringing their genius alongside a massive amount of original music. In reverse alphabetical order this time, a huge mihi to the below artists:

Zumba with Latu To’omaga, Zach Mandeville, Yadana Saw, XRVR, William Jackman, Wet Denim, Wellington Youth Circus, Wellington Batucada, Weka, WCSCC Dragon & Lion Troupe, Wayno, Warm Regards, Uncle Silverback, The Wellington Thai Community, The Temple, The Side Characters, The Good Taste Selector, The Footnotes, The Flow Collective, The Dangerous Darlings, Te Kapa o Ngā Puna Waiora, Tawaz, Tautua Dance Academy, Tarrant Dancers, Takas, Taikoza Wellington, Swampshack Crew, Sujai, Subtle Grape, stefrose, Star time!, Ssendam Rawkustra, South Wellington Intermediate Poly Group, Solid Gold Dance Crew, Sol Fide, So&So, Side Eye, Sheeps, Seraph, Seaside Sloths, Scorpios Nest Soundsystem, Saphikuna Peru Dance Company, Rodney Fisher, Ringlets, RadioActive.FM DJs, Perpetual Motion Machina, Paul Klaass, Pati Taii, Pahū, OTC, Orzeł Dance Ensemble, Orlęta Dance Ensemble, ODA Dance Studio, NOVA, No L, Nam Chucks, Naakz, Mystori, Mr Fungus, Move It Danceworks, mauri aura, Martin Ewen-Lurk, Manisah, LUX, Louisa Nicklin, Louis Gradwell, Lord Woo, Lorazepam, Lesa MacLeod-Whiting, Legacy Taekwon-Do, Lee Stuart, Laura Oakley, Kolya, Klezmer Rebs, Kingston High All Stars, Kennedy, Kedron Parker, KB the DJ, KaSeki, JOLA BURNS, Jen Kyle, J Swizzle, Iwi, Iris Little, Hawaiian Dance Wellington, Half/Angel, Groove Council, Greta O’Leary, Grains, Goodnight My Darling, George Young, Fun & Funner, Fruit Loops, French for Rabbits, Fog, Emily de Vegt, Eigenface, Dream Chambers, Dos-Ovni, Don Mackay, Don and The Divorcees, DJ XJ, Dj KERB , DJ Desi, Dj Coleoz, Dj Belleville, Dj Anansi, Des Mallon Blues and the Melody Makers, DEATHRO, Death Without a Priest, Dead Queens, David Harris, Danica Bryant, Cumbia Blazera, Cruelly, Crash Bandihoot, Cordelia’s, Circus Hub Trainers, Circus Hub Students, Colossal, Casual Healing, Capoeira Angola, C-26 Salsa band, Byte Size, Burnt Indigo, Bulgarian Ensemble Horo, buffcat, Brainwave, Body Beat Ritual, BIlly Lyrical, Big Girls with REACT, Benthamism, Benjamin Bunny, Battle-Ska Galactica, BANANA JOLIE, Bad Taste, Baby Zionov, Averie, Athena, AOG Berhampore Gospel Band, Alda Rezende, AFTERPARTY, A Sen

Meri Kirihimete, Happy New Year and Happy Holidays. See you on Sunday 2 March!