Entertainment
29 March, 2025
Get ready to twirl at Tanks
READY, set, twirl. Emma Memma is returning to Cairns with her best friends, Elvin Melvin, BB Butterfly and Waffles the Wombat this April for a fun adventure with Cairns’ kiddies and their families.
After two years, Emma Memma is finally twirling into town once again and kicking off her Dance Island Party tour in Cairns on April 6 at the Tanks Arts Centre for families to have the most fun and adorable dance party.
Emma Memma also released a new album on March 21 called ‘Dance Island Party’ which will feature 10 new songs, some of which she’ll perform live for the first time while also bringing back fan favourites like Twirly Tuesday and Coconut Tree.
Emma Watkins, the woman behind Emma Memma, said she was excited to bring the show back to Cairns
“It’s very exciting, we’re starting our entire tour in Cairns,” Ms Watkins said.
“We’re coming back after two years. We visited in 2023, and in two years we’ve been writing new songs, refining our live show, adding new dancers and new costumes and now we’re bringing the Dance Island Party to Queensland.
“We have created new music for this tour, which we’re releasing today, with a lot of the songs that are everyone’s favourites like Emma Memma, Twirly Tuesday and Coconut Tree, this show will be a mixture of all these songs.
“I perform with my co-partner Elvin Melvin and Elvin is deaf in real life and he actually uses sign language through the whole show, so we offer to families the whole show in English and Auslan and blending them together through dance.
“BB Butterfly is returning to Cairns but we didn’t actually have Waffles the Wombat last time and in the last year,Waffles has been performing with us to great delight, children really enjoy when Waffles rolls over, so we’re really excited to bring this to everybody.”
Ms Watkins invited families across the Far North to come and enjoy the Dance Island Party.
“We really want children to come and have the best time ever,” she said.
“It’ll be just as fun for the parents as it’ll be for the children. We have lots of moments for everyone to dance.
“We always recognise that there are so many amazing mums, but when we’re in Cairns we know we’ll see a lot of dads and we have a new section called ‘Dance Dads’ to encourage dads to dance along and we’ll be holding a competition in Cairns to pick the best dance dad, so I’m calling on dads to prepare their best moves and bring them along to the show.”
To buy tickets, visit https://bit.ly/4itkMnX
