A flourish of global fun

Marlborough’s pre-harvest cultural collaboration celebration welcomes everyone on Friday, February 28, with the third Popurrí Festival taking over Yard Bar.

Popurrí Festival brings together those who make up Marlborough’s 2025 harvest staff, and everyone is invited to join the celebrations.

The organising team say starting preparations for the third festival early promises a bigger and better event.

“We’ve organised more production and excitement for this year to provide for everyone across the community,” Clo Galvez says.

“I’ve been coming to Marlborough since 2014, and harvest parties are such a global way to meet fellow winery workers, so we help make those connections between people here.

“Popurri as a name speaks for itself, it’s a beautifully blended mixture.”

While last year’s festival aimed to raise money for Pluto Projects’ bathroom updates to host events, the enthusiasm generated was irresistible.

“It’s spread through friendship groups, and people put their hands up as musicians, DJ, artistic performances, photographers, so it’s a real homegrown event,” Eilin Fernandez adds.

“The team learnt lots from the previous two events, and they have generated so much energy within the community”, says Juan Viggiano.

“We’re expecting mostly winery staff where there’s plenty of Latin-American flair that comes from us wanting to express ourselves, just as we would at home, but we want to build everyone can celebrate in the same way.

“It’s promising to be a great night, and something unusual for the Yard Bar – we’re reinventing the space as we find it suitable having established an ongoing relationship there”, adds George Waterhouse.

“Popurrí aims to bring something a bit different and create a proper festival atmosphere with the musicians, entertainment, food and drink coming from the community and doing it for the community - and that makes it really special.”

Get tickets from https://events.humanitix.com/popuri-festival