Festival of the Elements - Performers

Sandpaper Tango

Featuring Cy Winstanley, Catherine (BB) Bowness and Vanessa McGowan this new bluegrass band will get your feet stomping and your heart racing.

Poppy Dust

Poppy Dust is a wicked emerging upbeat energetic band born from musical theatre.

A synthesis of pop, soul, funk, and rock we are notorious in the Wellington band scene for putting on an amazing show and rocking your socks off!

Tone Togiatama

Tone Togiatama is the Music Director of Porirua Elim Christian Centre, and Vocal tutor for the Elim School of Creative Arts.
His performances have taken him locally and at national level including curtain raiser for Stan Walker's concert in 2011.
Tone is very passionate about music and loves to explore the various styles. He admits that his main music style will have to pop, but he also does a lot of R & B and gospel and that comes from his church up bringing.
You will thoroughly enjoy his singing style and his enthusiasm on stage. He never disappoints.

Funky Junk Recycle Band

Funky Junk Incorporated is a percussion group featuring recycled junk turned into instruments that can be thumped, bumped, slapped or whacked to make infectiously funky rhythms!

Promoting resourcefulness, creativity and waste-awareness, we entertain and educate through our community workshops and bootie shaking beats!

Muirsheen Durkin

Muirsheen Durkin (pronounced Mirshin Dirkin) is a local trio who perform mainly Celtic and English music and a few contemporary and other numbers.
The group takes its name from a traditional Irish emigration ballad - not one of the many maudlin tearful types that have you turning your Guiness into a low alcohol ale with the copious tears it induces; but rather a more a racy light hearted optimistic one, of sailing to "Americay to make one's fortune" and returning home triumphantly with "gold aplenty."