Day Time, ​On Stage

Evening, On Stage

11am Festival Opens
   MC Scott Radovanovich
   Tug Boat display - Picton Harbour
11.10am QCC Kapa Haka
11.20am Stinky Pants the Pirate Magician
12.05pm Interislander Tug of War (Under 7 yrs old)
12.35pm Loopy Tunes (Children's performer)       
1.10pm Interislander Tug of War (8-13 yrs old)
3.10pm Interislander Tug of War (14-18 yrs old)
3.35pm Prizegiving:
        Scholarship
          Best dressed Pirates & Sea Creatures
          Port Marlborough Raft Races
          Build a Raft
          Treasure Hunt
4.00pm Loopy Tunes
4.40pm Dance Workshop Performance
5.05pm Giveaways - Competition
5.50pm Interislander Tug of War for Adults

LIVE MUSIC - Get your dancing shoes on & your singing voices tuned up !

6.20pm Tom Tom & The Groove Daddies
7.05pm Barry & Jackie (ex-Waratah)
8.20pm Giveaways - competition time
8.40pm HEADLINE ACT, Jodie & the Stowaways
9.55pm Countdown for Fireworks
10pm     Fireworks
Until 10.25pm Jodie & the Stowaways
1030  End

THE EVENING ENTERTAINMENT LINE UP

Jodie & The Stowaways
8.40pm - 10.20pm

HEADLINE ACT

Jodie and The Stowaways have been playing music professionally together for nearly a decade. The Stowaways have a wealth of experience playing for crowds of all types around New Zealand.  Wellington based, they are a fun, energetic party band who look forward to keeping the Picton crowds on their feet singing and dancing, 

Headline act on the Friday night for Picton Maritime Festival 2025, we all loved their beats so much that we've bought them back to headline our main event.
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Check out a sample of their music here: Are You Gonna Be My Girl - Jodie and The Stowaways

https://www.jodiegummermusic.co.nz/jodieandthestowaways

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Tom Tom & the Groove Daddies
6.20pm-7pm

Led by 8 year old drumming phenom TomTom Woodson, TomTom and the Groove-Daddies play a sing out loud style of music that includes hits from the Beatles, CCR, the Killers, the Rolling Stones plus many more.
 
From an early age, TomTom showed an aptitude for music. After noticing that he would pat his leg in time with music, around the age of 10 months old, his father bought him a set of drum sticks and made him a small drum kit out of milk formula cans. TomTom immediately began playing along to his father’s guitar playing and before he was 2 years old, TomTom performed his first gig in public.  Seeing the need to nurture this incredible talent, his father reached out to his professional musician friends and in 2022, The Groove-Daddies were formed. The band features Jay Hay (isunray, Thunder Snail) on bass guitar and TomTom’s father Beau Redding (Jodie and the Stowaways, The Bojangles) on guitar and lead vocals.
 
In 2023, 2024, and 2025 TomTom and the Groove-Daddies performed on the main stage at the Cancer Society’s Relay for Life events in Wellington as well the Wairarapa Relay for Life in 2023 and 2025.