Mass Cuba Street Orchestra

Murray Hickman, Strike Percussion, and Adam Page, multi-instumentalist and composer extraordinaire, combine musical forces to create the Mass Cuba Street Orchestra especially for CubaDupa.

The Orchestra will feature over 50 musicians from Strike, The Balkanistas (pictured above), Niko Ne Zna, Richter City Rebels and a brass band.

The MCSO will perform music specially composed to be played in various street locations through the Cuba precinct, as separate movements, and culminating in a grand interactive finale.

In the words of Murray and Adam, "it's a little bit of Wellington BBQ reggae, happy dubstep with brass, neo-classical, Balkan, New Orleans, funky, Polynesian."

It will simply be extraordinary!

Help us do the CubaDupa!

CubaDupa will be a world-class street festival, which builds on the spirit and talent of Wellington and draws on the best New Zealand street festivals.  It will be held annually in Wellington, premiering Saturday 28 - Sunday 29 March 2015.

The new Cuba Street festival, CubaDupa, is a celebration of the creative heart of Wellington.  The Cuba street precinct will become a vibrant pedestrianised playground of music, dance, arts and street food.

In creating a totally unique and family friendly urban environment and entertainment programme Drew James, the Artistic Director of CubaDupa has identified seven diverse projects that will deliver an extraordinary experience for audiences and participants.

These are Urban Rhapsodies aerial opera, Mass Cuba Street Orchestra, The Beop band of the future, Carnival Zone with Wellington Batucada, Cuba Surveyors historical street theatre, Java Dance's Sneak Peek in shop windows, and CubaKaleidoscope by the Tarrant Dance Studio. All of these projects will be commissioned with the help of Boosted donations and performed free for audiences on the streets.