Doing the Newtown Shuffle once more
Like many festivals and events last year, Newtown was cancelled due to COVID – so it was completely brilliant to be back again in 2023.
With Tim as our director, our drummers and dancers did the Newtown Shuffle through the streets of our favourite inner-city suburb – and we (and the crowds) couldn’t have been happier.
We finished at the Constable Street stage by doing a mash-up with the very wonderful Hoot’n’Annies – a bunch of whom are also members of Wellington Batucada – it was a family affair!
What an excellent day – and the Weather Gods were amazing. About 10 minutes after we finished performing and had wandered back through the streets to our Green Room – the heavens opened and it absolutely poured down. If we’d done our usual random carry-on-playing-for-a-bit after the mashup, we’d have been soaked. But we didn’t, so we weren’t! Hooray!
Wellington Batucada at the Newtown Fair 2023
Video by Tom Etuata
Wellington Batucada performing Rocinha samba at the Newtown Fair 2023
Video by Ana Spada
Wellington Batucada performing Sambanui samba reggae at the Newtown Fair 2023
Video by Tim Flack
Wellington Batucada performing Merengue at the Newtown Fair 2023
Video by Andre Grobler
Wellington Batucada playing a Sambanui samba reggae mashup with the Hoot’n’Annies at the Newtown Fair 2023
Video by Ana Spada
Wellington Batucada playing a Sambanui samba reggae mashup with the Hoot’n’Annies at the Newtown Fair 2023
Video by Ana Spada
Photo gallery
Photos by Chris McKeown and Tom Etuata. Click on any thumbnail to see the larger version:
