EXTRA MATINEE ADDED FOR JUBILATION CHOIR AT THE HOLLYWOOD

Tickets for Jubilation Choir’s evening concert at The Hollywood Avondale have sold like hot cakes so an extra 3pm matinee has been added for Jubilation Choir’s special concert at The Hollywood Avondale on Sunday 23 November, featuring powerhouse artists Julia Deans, Anika Moa and Bella Kalolo.

Ponsonby’s own Jubilation Choir will now perform two shows (3pm and 7pm), celebrating Aotearoa’s finest singers, soulful music and spine-tingling harmonies. A perfect afternoon for the whole whānau, with family-friendly ticket prices (under-5s free, under-16s $25).

“I’ve always loved singing with a choir since I was a youngster. I was in a choir doing the high notes once upon a time! It’s going to be so much fun, and opening the show up to a matinee for all ages is exciting,” says Anika Moa.

For 25 years, Jubilation has brought together singers from all walks of life to share songs that speak to universal themes of struggle, salvation and love, reinterpreting everyone from The Beatles to Prince to Blur to Nina Simone. It’s Kiwi gospel at its most joyous: a groovy mix of the divine and the profane, the sweet and the raucous, where Americana meets Aotearoa.

Julia Deans is a songwriter and performer with a voice that can stop a room whether fronting Fur Patrol or crafting the intimate, acclaimed solo work that has marked her out as one of our most compelling storytellers. Award-winning and unapologetically soulful, Shortland Street star Bella Kalolo brings gospel roots and R&B fire with a vibrant Polynesian spirit. And Anika Moa needs little introduction: from Dreams in My Head to her beloved children’s songs, she's a unique singer, songwriter, entertainer, and national treasure.

This special evening also includes these three voices taking their own songs, including Lydia, Mama’s Eyes, Dreams in My Head and more, and setting them alight inside Jubilation’s choral embrace. Add in a few classics from the Aotearoa songbook (including the indelible Bathe in the River), and you’ve got a big dose of happy harmonies designed to lift the Hollywood roof.

32 voices strong, the choir is a vibrant collective that blends long-time members with some of Aotearoa’s most celebrated performers, including Jennifer Ward-Lealand, Fiona Samuel and Jackie Clarke.

Event Details
Jubilation at The Hollywood with Julia Deans, Bella Kalolo & Anika Moa
Hollywood Avondale, Auckland

Sunday 23 November 2025
Matinee 3pm | Evening Show 7pm
Tickets available from Under The Radar