Street Beats Midtown
Journey into Auckland City Centre to witness the streets come alive with beats, melody and movement delivered by vibrant, brilliant artists.
Listen to resounding music and song at Elliott Stables with food before a Festival show. Wander down Queen Street to hear drummers and songsters. Take in a Graffiti Battle in action on Darby Street. Visit Aotea Square for music and dancing.
With talent dancing in the streets, make sure to keep an eye on this page for updates, as this free, family-friendly line up of activities unfolds before your ears, eyes and tastebuds!
HINA
Sharing her name with a deity of the moon known throughout Polynesia, HINA is an artist, producer, and multi-instrumentalist from New Zealand. Raised from a young age on an eclectic musical diet, she started writing songs in her mid-teens and has matured into her early twenties with a sound described by Happy Mag as being "simultaneously intimate and far-reaching, weaving in and out of R&B tempos and subtle tendrils of jazz with a dusting of pop sensibilities. |
Tuakoi & Brady 
Brady Peeti (Te Āti Haunui a Pāpārangi, Ngaati Maniapoto) is a pioneering, award-winning performer, who has broken down stereotypes after her recognition as the first Australasian trans actress to play a leading lady in a musical. A graduate of the National Academy of Singing and Dramatic Art, Brady's theatre credits include Little Shop of Horrors (Court Theatre); Fever: Return of the Ula (Fine Fatale); Black Ties (Te Rēhia Theatre Company and Ilbijerri Theatre Company); Astroman (Auckland Theatre Company); The Wizard of Otahuhu (Mangere Arts Centre); and most recently the sold-out season of Kōpū (Te Rēhia Theatre Company). Her screen credits include episodes of the Māori bilingual web series Ahikāroa, and her short-film credits include He Takatāpui Ahau; GURL and Nancy from now on. She is also the presenter/director of the NZ Web Fest nominated docu-series Transgenerations which is currently being shown in Arizona, Sydney and Edinburgh. In 2019, Brady was recognised by her peers in winning the Outstanding Newcomer Award at the Auckland Theatre Awards, something she dedicated to the encouragement and mentorship she receives as a member of Te Pou Theatre. 
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Mr D - Demetrius Savai'inaea| |
Jessie McCall - Unitec Dance Jessie has created commissioned work for Footnote Dance NZ, Auckland Arts Festival, Auckland Pride Festival and UNITEC, alongside an independent choreographic career including full-length works. Jessie’s choreographic practice is enriched and challenged by her current journey as a new mother.  |
| Louise Evans - Hot Diggity
Hot Diggity is Aotearoa’s only all-female bluegrass band. They play original songs by Heather Carrigan (mandolin, guitar and vocals) and Deborah Mackenzie (guitar and vocals) along with plenty of bluegrass favourites. Backed up by Jenine Abarbanel (bass and vocals), Sue Drake (banjo and vocals) and Louise Evans (fiddle), they put out a crowd pleasing, powerful, and lively sound - featuring hot instrumentation and tight harmonies. The band was formed in 2014, but all five members are veteran musicians having played with numerous other bands in a variety of musical styles for years.  |
| Marian Burns Living and breathing the music running through her veins since she first picked up a violin at the age of 6, Marian’s unstoppable energy and joy sweeps you up in her path. Her electric live performance that she is famous for will take you on a foot-stomping, hand-clapping musical ride and leave you trying to catch your breath! Marian was awarded a Gong on Queen's Birthday weekend, 2018, acknowledging her dedication to Services to Music. Marian is now a Member of the New Zealand Order of Merit. MNZM formerly known as the MBE (Member of the British Empire)  |
Projekt Team |
Latinissimo |
Anuanua Dance Troup Drummers  |
| Seumanu Simon Matāfai
Seumanu Simon Matāfai JP is a proud Kiwi-born Samoan music teacher, choir master and consultant for business/governance and indigenous leadership. He picked up piano lessons around 10 years old and started playing for the Grey Lynn Samoan Methodist from the age of 11. Decades later, Seumanu is an alumnus of the University of Auckland School of Music & has featured with international & local music celebrities whilst on tours, TV, radio & film.  |
| Kyla Greening
Sweet and soulful, Hamilton singer/songwriter Kyla Greening writes songs that make you want to sing, fall in love, and dance in the rain. This Ngati Kahungunu girl is a multi-instrumentalist grounded in R&B music, her musical sensibilities and personal style make a fresh take on those nostalgic feel-good grooves. True to the title of her debut single "Rich Girl", Kyla always offers a rich sound brimming not only with warm vocals and lush instrumentation, but with heart, and the grounding reminder that often the most important things in life are the ones we have right here.  |
| Austellus Vocal Ensemble Austellus Vocal Ensemble is a new acapella group consisting of some of Auckland’s most experienced young semi-professional singers. Their repertoire ranges from the Medieval to the 21st Century and they explore a wide variety of genres in unconventional performance spaces. The singers are a mix of music professionals, educators, young professionals in STEM, and are all members of a number of local and national ensembles. 
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| Graffiti Battle
FLURO @holly___rock Fluro is an Auckland based multi-disciplinary artist and designer with a background in graffiti, graphic design, sign-writing, street art and typography. Her focus is on developing words and letterforms for interior and exterior murals to bring beauty, energy and meaning to otherwise overlooked spaces. REKSO @reksoism Rekso is a graffiti writer and digital illustrator who explores the realms of urban art culture through the lens of graffiti, architecture, landscapes, tattoo and sneakers. His illustrations often represent the urban decay of a cityscape covered in scrawls of graffiti. RACE @race_graffiti Race is an established graffiti writer based in suburb of Glen Innes who explores the boundaries of stylised lettering and an intersection of cartoon and realism. His work is often abstract, experimental, and gestural through the use of spray paint and fat caps. NVADE @nvad3one_fsu_502 Nvade is a graffiti writer who stays true to the art of getting up. His work can be found all throughout the country in neglected areas like under railway bridges and abandoned buildings. His work centres around the exploration of lettering and often features characters from his favourite cartoons. REVOS @playing_stupid_games Revos is a graffiti writer whose style is instantly recognisable in the graffiti community. While his lettering is often complex, his visual language is bold, graphic, and sharp, which is designed to create legibility for his letters.  |
| Robin Kelly - Undergrand Family Karaoke
Robin is a regular on the Auckland music and theatre scene. He hosts the Auckland Live Cabaret Festival’s famous Piano Bar, runs the “coolest choir in Auckland” (NZ Herald) Stimmung Choir (www.stimmung.co.nz), and has been a composer, performer, and musical director for many of Auckland’s leading theatre companies including Auckland Theatre Company, Silo Theatre, Red Leap, and Fractious Tash. He has toured nationally with Julia Deans (Both Sides Now), Jennifer Ward-Lealand (Delicious Oblivion), and with his (auto)biographical show Valerie (Last Tapes Theatre Company) which received the prestigious ‘Fringe First’ award at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival, the New Zealand Theatre Award for Best Original Music, and the Auckland Theatre Award for Most Original Production.  |
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