Titirangi Festival of Music

Overview

West Auckland will launch their music into the spotlight this weekend - and we're not talking about bourbon-fuelled mullet rock. The Titirangi Festival of Music will take place over three days, engaging the community through street performances, drumming workshops and everything from jazz to bird compositions.

The festival starts with free music from 6pm on Friday 4 April including the techno-latin stylings of duo Chico con Tumbao, before moving into ticketed events with performances from Ukulele collective the Nukes and jazz combo Nairobi Trio.

The cornerstone event of the festival is the free Village Day (from 10.30am on Saturday 5 April) with performances around the village all day featuring roots band dDub and street music AK Samba, as well as buskers, street performers and workshops in Samba and African style drumming. On Saturday night the Titirangi Memorial Hall becomes the Festival Ballroom and will host a genre-hopping concert series featuring soul/funk band Sola Rosa, exotic guitar shredder Arli Liberman and DJ Pushing Blocks before hosting the Music Tour on Sunday 6 April.

The Music Tour will feature March to Freedom - a concert experience of sounds created during the American Civil Right era by the Heaven Bent Choir, an audio-visual workshop including the premiere of Birdsongs - a composition of native bird species by composer Tim Prebble, and a concert by Grammy-nominated oboe improvisator Russell Walder to close off the weekend.