Cross Street Music Festival

Karangahape Road, Mercury Lane & Cross Street, Tāmaki Makaurau Auckland 

From 12pm | Ticketed programme from 4pm | R18 from 5pm onwards 

Cross Street Music Festival returns on Saturday 28 November, bringing together some of Aotearoa’s most exciting independent, underground and emerging music for its biggest edition yet. 

 Now in its eighth year, Cross Street is expanding beyond Cross Street, spilling out across Karangahape Road, Mercury Lane and the surrounding precinct for an afternoon and evening of live music, art, installations, performances and unexpected things to stumble across. 

 Free, all-ages music, art, installations, performances, activations and tamariki activities across Karangahape Road, Mercury Lane and Cross Street. 

From 4pm, the ticketed Cross Street Music Festival programme kicks into gear, with R18 restrictions applying from 5pm onwards. 

 Cross Street has always been about discovery: come for an artist you know and leave obsessed with someone you’d never heard before. 

This year’s festival artwork has been hand-painted by renowned Tāmaki Makaurau artist Tanja McMillan, aka Misery, and depicts The Magician, a Major Arcana tarot card associated with manifestation, personal power, resourcefulness and turning ideas into action. 

 Independent by nature. Connected by community. He wāhi, he tāngata, he kōrero. 

FIRST WAVE LINE-UP 

Sola Rosa 

MELODOWNZ 

DARTZ 

Borderline 

Lilbubblegum 

Where’s Jai 

Spell 

BBYFACEKILLA 

Mokomokai 

Roy Irwin 

Magic Factory 

The Beatniks 

Love Language 

Hales 

Great South 

Noa Records 

Snakelegs 

Spdrtwnbby 

Murry Sweetpants 

Erin G 

Tiger Lotiss 

 Plus plenty more artists still to be announced. 

Early bird tickets are on sale now at crossstmusicfestival.co.nz 

Cross Street Music Festival 2026 is proudly supported by Auckland Live and Auckland Council Events. 

CONTACT 

Festival enquiries 

Anya Vitali – Festival Director 

anyavitali@icloud.com