

# Upcoming Jazz Fest, Concerts & Events 2026 In Wellington

- **Subtitle**: Explore the world of jazz; from live jazz nights to jazz concerts in Wellington this weekend, there is everything in this genre that will fit you just right.
- **Category**: Jazz
- **Display Name**: Jazz concerts events
- **Type**: other

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## About

Indulge in the soulful music with jazz nights in [CITY]. Weekdays or weekends, enter the lovely musical world with some very beautiful jazz events in [CITY]. Go to a bar, restaurant or a theatre near you that host jazz nights; spend some quality time with your people amidst the music. If you are a lover of this music genre then you have to attend the biggest jazz festivals in [CITY] when the artists tour or the bands perform. Don’t miss boogie woogie-ing or keeping it Latin with the best jazz music events in [CITY].
Discover the best of the jazz world with us and book your tickets before it runs out.

## Jazz Events in Wellington

- **Event Name**: THUNDERCAT Wellington - May 6th, Meow Nui (SOLD OUT)
  - **Description**: Grammy-nominated Bassist, Producer, and Vocalist THUNDERCAT Brings His New Album Distracted To Auckland And Wellington This May.

Known for his jazz-fusion sensibility and elastic funk, Thundercat is bringing his 2026 tour to Auckland and Wellington this
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  - **Date**: Wed May 06 2026 at 10:00 am (+12:00)
  - **Event URL**: https://allevents.in/wellington/thundercat-wellington-may-6th-meow-nui-sold-out/200029675505117
  - **Venue**: Meow Nui, 92 Vivian Street, Te Aro, Wellington 6011
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  - **Categories**: entertainment, music, performances, live-music
- **Event Name**: Adrian Cox Trio - Live in Wellington
  - **Description**: April 2nd - Adrian Cox Trio 
Bedlam &amp; Squalor, Wellington 
Doors 7pm Concert 8pm 

Internationally acclaimed clarinetist Adrian Cox and his trio return to Aotearoa for a series of performances promoting their recently released album 'Club Croco'.

Adr
  - **Date**: Thu Apr 02 2026 at 09:00 am (+13:00)
  - **Event URL**: https://allevents.in/wellington/adrian-cox-trio-live-in-wellington/200029839197721
  - **Venue**: Bedlam &amp; Squalor
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  - **Categories**: Music, Entertainment, Concerts, Workshops
- **Event Name**: The Funkadelics
  - **Description**: The Undercurrent presents The Funkadelics!

The Funkadelics is a dynamic six-piece band bringing you the best of Motown and beyond, featuring creative arrangements and jazz-infused solos.

This electrifying show blends the iconic Motown hits with the impr
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  - **Date**: Sat May 02 2026 at 10:00 am (+12:00)
  - **Event URL**: https://allevents.in/wellington/the-funkadelics/200029827225705
  - **Venue**: 118 Tory Street, Wellington, New Zealand 6011
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  - **Categories**: music, entertainment, performances, workshops, live-music
- **Event Name**: Nairobi trio with Hot Club Sandwich
  - **Description**: A JAZZY REUNION
New Zealand's favourite Jazz Entertainers the Nairobi trio join forces with Andrew London's Hot Club Sandwich for a one-off concert - indeed a replay of their very successful previous collaborations - this is one show NOT TO BE MISSED!
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  - **Date**: Fri May 01 2026 at 09:30 am (+12:00)
  - **Event URL**: https://allevents.in/wellington/nairobi-trio-with-hot-club-sandwich/200029863670840
  - **Venue**: Old St Paul's
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  - **Categories**: music, entertainment, concerts
- **Event Name**: Fiesta! Fiesta!
  - **Description**: The Aotearoa Jazz Orchestra presents: Fiesta! Fiesta! 🔥

This winter, the heat arrives early.

Join the Aotearoa Jazz Orchestra for a spectacular night of rhythm, colour, and irresistible Latin groove as the country’s national jazz orchestra joins forces
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  - **Date**: Sat Jul 25 2026 at 09:30 am – Sat Jul 25 2026 at 12:00 pm (+12:00)
  - **Event URL**: https://allevents.in/wellington/fiesta-fiesta/200029814181422
  - **Venue**: MeowNUI
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  - **Categories**: music, entertainment, jazz, dance, live-music
- **Event Name**: Orchestra Wellington - 3 Creation
  - **Description**: InformationAll Tickets are Mobile Ticket Only. Mobile Tickets are like Print-at-Home tickets but instead of having to print off the tickets yourself, you can just show the barcode on your mobile phone. It is the easiest way to access ti
  - **Date**: Sat Aug 22 2026 at 07:30 pm – Sat Aug 22 2026 at 09:30 pm (13:00)
  - **Event URL**: https://allevents.in/wellington/orchestra-wellington-3-creation/210001209279615
  - **Venue**: Michael Fowler Centre
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  - **Categories**: Arts & Theatre
- **Event Name**: Waypeople Album Release Tour - Wellington
  - **Description**: Wellington-based saxophonist and composer Jake Baxendale brings together a remarkable collective of Aotearoa’s leading jazz and contemporary musicians for Waypeople, a luminous new album inspired by Ursula K. Le Guin’s English-language version of the Tao
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  - **Date**: Sat Apr 11 2026 at 09:30 am (+12:00)
  - **Event URL**: https://allevents.in/wellington/waypeople-album-release-tour-wellington/200029839197922
  - **Venue**: Bedlam &amp; Squalor
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  - **Categories**: music, entertainment, art, fine-arts, literary-art, storytelling
- **Event Name**: Swing Jazz Jam
  - **Description**: Swing into the golden age of jazz at the Swing Jazz Jam - a toe-tapping evening of classic grooves and spontaneous musical magic! ✨

Featuring piano, guitar, double bass, and drums, this open jam invites musicians and jazz lovers alike to soak up the rhyt
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  - **Date**: Wed Apr 08 2026 at 10:00 am (+12:00)
  - **Event URL**: https://allevents.in/wellington/swing-jazz-jam/200029827225156
  - **Venue**: 118 Tory Street, Wellington, New Zealand 6011
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  - **Categories**: music, entertainment, live-music
- **Event Name**: Garam Jung Quintet
  - **Description**: The Undercurrent presents the Garam Jung Quintet!

The Garam Jung Quintet is back with a different repertoire. They will be playing a selection of jazz standards. Please come and enjoy this life affirming music on a Friday night. Let's celebrate being ali
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  - **Date**: Fri Apr 03 2026 at 09:30 am (+13:00)
  - **Event URL**: https://allevents.in/wellington/garam-jung-quintet/200029870643419
  - **Venue**: 118 Tory Street, Wellington, New Zealand 6011
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  - **Categories**: music, entertainment, workshops
- **Event Name**: CMNZ Series: Symposium Brass
  - **Description**: Artists
Tom Rainey, Conductor / Piano
Jimmy Rainey, Saxophone
Thomas Eves, Trumpet
Cameron Pearce, Composer / Trumpet
Barrett Hocking, Trumpet
Scott Taitoko, Trombone
Pablo Ruiz Henao, Low Brass
Joe McCallum, Drums

Symposium Brass members have performed
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  - **Date**: Fri May 01 2026 at 09:30 am (+12:00)
  - **Event URL**: https://allevents.in/wellington/cmnz-series-symposium-brass/200029733753014
  - **Venue**: St Andrew's on The Terrace
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  - **Categories**: music, entertainment, art

## Trending Events in Wellington

- **Event Name**: Fat Freddy's Drop: Based on a True Story 21st Anniversary Tour | Sat 2 May | Michael Fowler Centre
  - **Description**: SOLD OUT! Doing it for the love of music, legendary band Fat Freddy's Drop are returning to the stage in 2026 to perform their ground-breaking debut album Based On A True Story.

The 51 dates across Australia, Aotearoa, Europe &amp; UK will be Freddy’s fi
  - **Venue**: Michael Fowler Centre
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- **Event Name**: Wellington Armageddon Expo 2026
  - **Description**: The Wellington Armageddon Expo is coming back to Sky Stadium for three days of in-person celebrity guests, epic gaming, cosplay, anime, comics, collectibles and more!

Don't miss out on our famous Cosplay Parade, contests, amusements, an Artist Alley, gee
  - **Venue**: Hnry Stadium
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- **Event Name**: Ultra New Zealand 2026
  - **Description**: ULTRA NEW ZEALAND - PHASE ONE LINEUP


A-Z
THE CHAINSMOKERS
DJ SNAKE
DARREN STYLES
MARLO
MISS MONIQUE
NICO MORENO
OLIVER HELDENS
ZEDD


PHASE TWO LINEUP DUE EARLY 2026


ULTRA Worldwide has just announced the inaugural ULTRA New Zealand, which will take p
  - **Venue**: Wellington Waterfront
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- **Event Name**: Anzac Round: One NZ Warriors v Dolphins
  - **Description**: For the first time, Wellington hosts our Anzac Round match. Join us as we honour this historic occasion and face the Dolphins in a commemorative clash that promises to be truly unforgettable.
  - **Venue**: Sky Stadium, Wellington
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- **Event Name**: Split Enz | Forever ENZ Tour | Wellington
  - **Description**: Split Enz are back. For the first time in 20 years, the Forever Enz Tour returns to Aotearoa, with original members Tim Finn, Neil Finn, Eddie Rayner and Noel Crombie hitting stages across the country this May.⁠
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Westpac Mastercard Presale: Tue 3 Mar, 11
  - **Venue**: TSB Bank Arena
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- **Event Name**: Sublime | Wellington | NZ
  - **Description**: Wellington | Sat 11 April | Brewtown
🔥 Sublime – First Ever NZ Tour 🔥

Wellington, get ready. For the first time ever, Sublime are hitting Aotearoa 🇳🇿

Fresh off their massive Coachella 2024 set, this tour is decades in the making.
30 years on from their
  - **Venue**: Brewtown
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- **Event Name**: Fat Freddy's Drop: Based On A True Story 21st Anniversary Tour | Sun 3 May | MFC
  - **Description**: Doing it for the love of music, legendary band Fat Freddy's Drop are returning to the stage in 2026 to perform their ground-breaking debut album Based On A True Story.

The 51 dates across Australia, Aotearoa, Europe &amp; UK will be Freddy’s first shows
  - **Venue**: Michael Fowler Centre
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- **Event Name**: Dita Von Teese: Nocturnelle 2026 [WELLINGTON]
  - **Description**: The ever-reigning Queen of Burlesque, Dita Von Teese, returns to Australia and New Zealand with her most opulent show yet, the all-new Nocturnelle.

With Nocturnelle, Dita unveils a bewitching new vision - an exquisite blend of old-Hollywood allure, theat
  - **Venue**: Wellington Opera House
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- **Event Name**: Bret McKenzie Freak Out City Tour | Wellington [SOLD OUT]
  - **Description**: Grammy and Academy Award–winning songwriter, composer and performer Bret McKenzie has announced two highly anticipated dates in his homeland of New Zealand in support of his latest album, Freak Out City. Touching down in Wellington and Auckland this April
  - **Venue**: 92 Vivian St, Te Aro, Wellington 6011, New Zealand
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## Browse Jazz Events by Date

- [Jazz Events Today in Wellington](https://allevents.in/wellington/jazz--today)
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## FAQs

- **Q**: What are the top Jazz events in Wellington?
  - **A:** THUNDERCAT Wellington - May 6th, Meow Nui (SOLD OUT) (Wed May 06 2026 at 10:00 am at Meow Nui, 92 Vivian Street, Te Aro, Wellington 6011), Adrian Cox Trio - Live in Wellington (Thu Apr 02 2026 at 09:00 am at Bedlam &amp; Squalor), The Funkadelics (Sat May 02 2026 at 10:00 am at 118 Tory Street, Wellington, New Zealand 6011), Nairobi trio with Hot Club Sandwich (Fri May 01 2026 at 09:30 am at Old St Paul's), Fiesta! Fiesta! (Sat Jul 25 2026 at 09:30 am at MeowNUI).
- **Q**: What Jazz events are happening in Wellington today April 02, 2026?
  - **A:** Adrian Cox Trio - Live in Wellington (Thu Apr 02 2026 at 09:00 am at Bedlam &amp; Squalor).
- **Q**: What Jazz events are happening in Wellington in April 2026?
  - **A:** Adrian Cox Trio - Live in Wellington (Thu Apr 02 2026 at 09:00 am at Bedlam &amp; Squalor), Waypeople Album Release Tour - Wellington (Sat Apr 11 2026 at 09:30 am at Bedlam &amp; Squalor), Swing Jazz Jam (Wed Apr 08 2026 at 10:00 am at 118 Tory Street, Wellington, New Zealand 6011), Garam Jung Quintet (Fri Apr 03 2026 at 09:30 am at 118 Tory Street, Wellington, New Zealand 6011).
- **Q**: How can I find Jazz events in Wellington?
  - **A:** You can discover upcoming Jazz events in Wellington on AllEvents.in. Browse by date, venue, or price to find events that match your interests.
- **Q**: How do I buy tickets for Jazz events in Wellington?
  - **A:** You can buy tickets directly through AllEvents.in. Many events offer online booking with options for free, paid, and early-bird tickets.
- **Q**: What are the popular venues for Jazz events in Wellington?
  - **A:** Some popular venues hosting Jazz events in Wellington include Meow Nui, 92 Vivian Street, Te Aro, Wellington 6011, Bedlam &amp; Squalor, 118 Tory Street, Wellington, New Zealand 6011.
- **Q**: Who are the top organizers for Jazz events in Wellington?
  - **A:** Popular organizers hosting Jazz events in Wellington include ATR Presents, Adrian Cox Music, The Undercurrent.
- **Q**: Are there any online Jazz events available?
  - **A:** Yes, many Jazz events are available online. You can filter for virtual events on AllEvents.in to attend from anywhere.
- **Q**: How can I get notified about new Jazz events in Wellington?
  - **A:** Follow the Jazz category on AllEvents.in to get notified when new Jazz events are listed in Wellington.

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