Run the night: Poppin Out festival reveals lineup
The drag and DJ-heavy music festival taking over Mary’s Poppin will return to kick off Adelaide’s Pride Month.
DJ Havana Brown will headline this year’s Poppin Out, the street party that spills out of Mary’s venue into the east end’s Synagogue Place.
The Billboard-charting DJ is joined by headliners Joanne, behind the Australian dance track “Jackie”, and UK drag queen Tiara Skye.
It’s Tiara’s first time in Australia, while Joanne returns to the venue after performing at Rundle Park’s earlier iteration of the queer festival Mary’s in the Park during Feast Festival 2023.
Both festivals’ previous editions have pulled headliners Nikki Webster, Samantha Jade, Sneaky Sound System, Crystal Waters, Ricki-Lee and Natalie Bassingthwaighte.
This year’s lineup includes returning Melbourne queens Art Simone and Karen from Finance, joined by Aysha Buffet, Lazy Susan and PopChops.
Sydney queen Champagne will also join the lineup of mostly local queens, including Kane Enable, Eve Elle and Dorian Courtisan.
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Kane Enable says Poppin Out is “more than just a party, it’s a statement”.
“It’s where our community shows up, shows off, and takes up space with pride,” she said.
“There’s nothing like seeing Synagogue Place packed with queers, allies, and drag excellence—it gives me goosebumps every time.”
The 2025 iteration of Poppin Out comes after a tumultuous year for the festival industry and joins the variety of boutique festivals and heavier-hitters like Laneway and Unsound that prevail.
The queer nightclub hosted its first Poppin Out Festival in February 2024 as a street party after downsizing from its originally announced venue, the Adelaide Gaol and losing its headline CeCe Penniston – best known for dance track “finally”.
Poppin Out is the official after-march destination of Pride Adelaide’s annual march on Saturday November 1.
It kicks off Pride celebrations that will occur across the month, coinciding with Feast Festival from November 1–23.
Feast, a community festival, recently secured City of Adelaide and Adelaide Economic Development Agency funding, which has helped make its centrepiece event, Picnic in the Park, free.
Poppin Out is on Saturday, November 1, with tickets starting at $69 available via Eventbrite.
