Eendracht Festival Rotterdam - date, locations, line-up

Eendracht Festival Rotterdam - date, locations, line-up

Once a year, the entire area around Eendrachtsplein is filled by the sounds of live music. Multiple venues and various event programmers team up to bring you a showcase of the best that Rotterdam has to offer.

 

Rotterdam local talent

The event provides a platform for more than 100 bands, poets, DJs and other creative locals. In the last eight editions, the festival has developed into a major showcase where event organizers, bookers, and fans come to discover the cities' best talent.

All of Rotterdam's many musical scenes are represented. Each has its own location and 'host'. These hosts will 'take over' a local bar or venue in the Eendrachtsplein area for the night.

Eendracht Festival is completely free and starts at 14:30. Most of the activities end around 23:00 while some clubs host parties that go on to 5:00 in the morning. For more information, check out the Eendracht Festival facebook page.

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Locations Eendracht Festival Rotterdam

As for the venues participating in Eendracht Festival, these include:

• Mainstage at Eendrachtsplein
• Rotown Rotterdam
• Bar3
• Boudewijn
• Enfant Terrible
• Club Vibes
• Bar P
• Lilith coffee
• Cafe De Zondebok & 't Zwarte Schaap  
• WORM Rotterdam
• Wunderbar
• De Riddert
• Juke Joint

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Hosts (event programmers)

The hosts are organizations that play a prominent role within a certain scene and know exactly what is happening at the moment. This year's hosts include:

• Roots & Routes Nederland
• Baroeg Rotterdam
• Pica Pica
• Bass Odyssey
• The Daily Indie
• Popronde Rotterdam
• SKANK
• De Nieuwe Lichting
• HIJS Live
• Bang Your Radio
• Music Matters
• Cloudhead
• Concentric Circles / Kampung / Los Bangeles /
• Noodlebar
• Liquidation
• Rewriters010
• Bass Odyssey
• SKANK
• Move Around Sound
• King Sepi
• Big Lion Promotions

 

Eendracht Festival info

Eendracht Festival 2019

Date: Thursday, 18th July 2019
Place: Multiple locations in the Eendrachtsplein area
What: Live music, DJ's, spoken word

Time: 14:30 - 23:00* (clubs go to 5am)
Entrance: 100% free

 

Location: Eendrachtsplein area

Be sure to explore the entire area, starting at Eendrachtsplein and fanning out towards Oude Binnenweg, Nieuwe Binnenweg, Mauritsweg and Westblaak.



About Eendracht Festival

Eendracht Festival is a project of Stichting De Nieuwe Lichting and is supported by the Municipality of Rotterdam. De Nieuwe Lichting explicitly focuses on connecting different scenes, different disciplines and in finding the right place for the right activity. Next to Eendracht Festival, De Nieuwe Lichting organizes, among other things, A Festival Downtown, an annual, weekly pop-up series. They also provide music programming for festivals such as Pow! Wow! Rotterdam, Rotterdam Rooftop Days and a monthly evening in BIRD under the name HOMEGROWN.

inJazz festival & conference Rotterdam - event information

inJazz festival & conference Rotterdam - event information

inJazz is a two-day festival for jazz lovers as well as a music conference for jazz professionals. The jazz festival features top (and upcoming) jazz talent and is entirely free of charge! 

If you love jazz music, you're in for a treat. Why? Well, inJazz is the official opening of North Sea Round Town: two weeks of jazz in Rotterdam. The end of North Sea Round Town culminates in the start of the North Sea Jazz Festival. The inJazz event features two days of free jazz performances as well as a conference for serious jazz musicians and industry professionals. Visit the conference for discussion panels, presentations and networking opportunities. 

inJazz conference

This year the conference program focuses on islands around the world. You will find jazz in all colors and textures. During the conference, visitors of inJazz can meet musicians and other jazz professionals from various islands and broaden their knowledge. Are you attending the conference? Then be sure to get your inJazz conference tickets on time.

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inJazz festival artist line-up

Coming for the music? There are more than 40 acts performing at inJazz. Artists performing are split in three categories. There's Dutch inJazz (Dutch artists), Europe inJazz (European artists) and Next Generation inJazz (conservatory students).  This year's inJazz line-up includes the following artists:

• Agnes Gosling 4tet
• Alarmist (IE)
• Bobby Rausch (DE)
• Christian Palmieri
• Daahoud Salim Quintet
• Doppler Trio
• Gerri Jäger Double Duo
• Göksel Yilmaz Ensemble
• Guy Salamon Group
• Half Easy Trio
• Hendrik Eichler
• Hlib Baisha
• Ignacio Santoro
• Jeroen van Vliet Moon Trio
• KALI (CH)
• Kyle Winklaar
• LoLanders (GB/NL)
• Matteo Myderwyk
• MDC III (BE)
• MICHEL MEIS 4TET (LU)
• Mindaugas Apulskis
• Mo van der Does Quartet
• Month of Sundays (AT)
• Mudita
• Myrthe van de Weetering
• Nizar Rohana Trio
• ODELION ORCHESTRA
• OZMA (FR)
• PONYLAND (GB)
• Rodrigo Ballesteros
• Sabrina Starke
• Scott McLemore 4tet (IS)
• Son Swagga
• SWART.
• Takoushis-Karapatakis Project (CY)
• Teus Nobel | Liberty Group
• Tommaso Perazzo
• Toni Vaquer Sextet (ES)
• Travelers (IT)
• Twists
• Wietse Voermans Quintet Licks & Brains

You can find the official artist line-up on the inJazz festival website.

What inJazz Rotterdam sounds like?

Check out the Spotify playlist below and have a listen.

 

inJazz festival event details

inJazz Festival 2019

Place:
LantarenVenster Rotterdam
Kantine Walhalla Rotterdam
Foodhallen Rotterdam
Room Mate Bruno

Date(s):
 
27 - 28 June 2019


Entrance/Tickets
:
100% free

Event type:
Music Festival

 

Location(s): inJazz Rotterdam

inJazz takes place in different locations in Rotterdam's Kop van Zuid / Katendrecht areas. If you're attending the jazz festival, you'll need to hop between LantarenVenster, Room Mate Bruno and Foodhallen (all in Kop van Zuid) and cross over to Walhalla (in Katendrecht).

If you're coming for the conference, then you'll spend the day at LantarenVenster.
 
 
Jazz Festival Hillegersberg Rotterdam - info, dates, line-up

Jazz Festival Hillegersberg Rotterdam - info, dates, line-up

Jazz Festival Hillegersberg has been around for over three decades. The three-day festival features over 35 acts performing on three different stages in the centre of Hillegersberg. 

The festival starts on Friday evening and ends on Sunday night. Approximately 35 acts can be seen on the three stages. Entrance is free. Festival organisers expect approximately 20,000 people. Visitors are requested to come by bicycle or public transport as much as possible.

Jazz Festival Hillegersberg artist line-up

This year, the artists performing at Jazz Festival Hillegersberg include:

• Licks & Brains
• Funkstamatics
• Nod Steward
• Dave Chavez
• Doors Tribute
• Raymunda
• Hans Dulfer
• Big Pete & The Implosions
• Edsel Juliet & La Banda Loca
• Moondance
• Barrelhouse
• Joe Undercover Band
• What the FRNK
• Ocean Boulevard
• Facet Fusion Band
• Stickey Fingers
• Henk Pepping Express ft. Ruben Hoeke
• Kino Haitsma
• VOF de Kunst

... and many more wonderful jazz, blues and crossover artists. You can find the official artist line-up on the Jazz Festival Hillegersberg website.

Event details

Jazz Festival Hillegersberg 2019

Place:
Weissenbruchlaan Rotterdam

Date(s):
 
28 - 30 July 2019

Featuring:
Kendrick Lamar, Gloria Estefan among others


Entrance/Tickets
:
100% free

Event type:
Music Festival

 

Location: Jazz Festival Hillegersberg

There are three stages at the festival. You'll find the two main modern/jazz and latin/soul stages across the street from Facet (cafe) on Weissenbruchstraat and the third stage, featuring blues and rock music on Bergse Dorpstraat nearby.
 
North Sea Jazz festival Rotterdam - location, dates, line-up

North Sea Jazz festival Rotterdam - location, dates, line-up

The annual North Sea Jazz Festival in Rotterdam is a very high quality festival where jazz music from the past, present and the future is presented, under one roof, for three days. In addition to jazz, you can also expect to hear blues, soul, funk, hip hop, world, pop and much more.

North Sea Jazz Rotterdam

The first edition of the North Sea Jazz Festival took place in 1976 in The Hague. The event drew about 9000 visitors and featured performances by artists like Sarah Vaughan, Count Basie, Dizzy Gillespie and Stan Getz. Since 2006 the festival has been organized in a new and more spacious location: Rotterdam Ahoy. The North Sea Jazz Festival has developed into a major international event with fifteen stages. Nowadays, the event draws between sixty-five thousand and seventy-five thousand visitors a year.

Past performers at North Sea jazz Rotterdam

In the past, many great names have performed at North Sea Jazz Rotterdam. To name a few: Nat Adderley, Erykah Badu, Paul Anka, Steve Coleman, Miles Davis, Candy Dulfer, Ibrahim Ferrer, Ella Fitzgerald, Alicia Keys, Lionel Hampton, Al Jarreau, B.B. King, Wynton Marsalis, Trijntje Oosterhuis, Jamiroquai, Shirley Horn, Tania Maria, Roy Hargrove, Rachelle Ferrell and The Zawinul Syndicate.

North Sea Jazz festival line-up 2019

There are tons of artists performing at North Sea Jazz this year. But to name a few:

• Diana Krall
• Burt Bacharach
• Dee Dee Bridgewater
• Juanes
• Michel Camilo Quarter
• Jamie Cullum
• Toto
• My Baby
• Jonathan Jeremiah
• Chick Corea
• Bobby McFerrin
• Janelle Monae
• Ms. Lauryn Hill
• Macy Gray
• Gilberto Gil
• Steve Gadd Band
• Mayra Andrade
• Gary Bartz featuring Ravi Coltrane & Charles Tolliver
• Chucho Valdez - Jazz Bata
• Orquesta Akokan
• Curtis Harding
• Rag'n'Bone Man
• Joe Jackson
• Tower of Power
• Jose James with Noordpool Orkest
• Blood Orange
• Anita Baker
• Jacob Banks
• Braxton Cook
• Makaya McCraven
• Robert Glasper w/ Chris Dave, Derrick Hodge
• The Internet

Visit the official North Sea Jazz website for the complete festival line-up and timetable.

North Sea Jazz sounds like:

Check out the Spotify playlist below and have a listen.

 


Event details

North Sea Jazz festival 2019

Place:
Rotterdam Ahoy
Ahoyweg 10, 3084 BA Rotterdam

Date(s) & Time(s):
 
13 - 14 July 2019 | 14:00 - 00:30

Featuring:
Kamasi Washington, Diana Krall, among others


Entrance/Tickets
:
1-day ticket: €95
3-day ticket: €230
(more ticket types available)

Event type:
Music Festival

 

Location: Rotterdam Ahoy

Not sure how to get there? Check out our directions Rotterdam Ahoy.
 
Festival weekend in Schiedam

Festival weekend in Schiedam

On the weekend of the 25th & 26th of May 2019, the historic city centre of Schiedam is all about relaxation and entertainment. Various local organisations team up to provide a full day of summer vibes, music, poetry, markets, food trucks and what Schiedam is known for; gin!

The historic city centre of Schiedam, with its beautiful canals, is increasingly popular among the Dutch and tourists alike. From far and wide, people come to learn about and taste Dutch gin. Moreover, the city is also a cool place to relax and hang out. How much so? Find out on the last weekend of May.

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Schiedam Festival weekend

Mark 25 and 26 May in your calendar for a fun weekend full of activities for all ages.

Proef! de Plantage
This cultural festival, held in city park 'de Plantage,' is experiencing its 3rd edition this year. The beautiful city park, which happens to be the oldest city park in the Netherlands, is the backdrop for a weekend of music, food, art and poetry.

Saturday 25 May, 14:00 - 22:00
Sunday 26 May 13:00 - 20:00

Find more information on the Plantage website.

GinFever
At GinFever it's all about gin and gin cocktails and enjoying that summer feeling! Learn all about gin, enjoy delicious gins, cocktails and tasty snacks to the rhythm of summer music. This event is held in the courtyard of the National Genever Museum in Schiedam (Nationale Jenevermusuem).

Saturday 25 May, 14:00 - 22:00
Sunday 26 May 13:00 - 20:00

Be sure to check out the GinFever website for ticket sales and the 2019 programme.

SWAN. Schiedam
SWAN, one of the major lifestyle markets in the Netherlands and Belgium comes to Schiedam. SWAN. is a platform for starting, creative entrepreneurs who want to showcase their products to a wide audience. At SWAN markets, you'll find diverse offerings such as handmade jewellery, accessories, fashion, vintage clothing, kids items, affordable art as well as trendy furniture. The SWAN market is also held in the Plantage city park.

Saturday 25 May, 13:00 - 19:00
Sunday 26 May, 13:00 - 19:00

Lounge boat Distillers Tour
Hop aboard on the lounge boat near the Havenkerk and sail through the canals of Schiedam. The boat makes stops at various gin distilleries such as Loopuyt, Koninklijke de Kuyper and Onder de Boompjes so you can have an exclusive look behind the scenes. On the way back, enjoy Bobby's gin and hop off at the GinFever festival.

Boarding times:
Saturday, May 25, 12:00 and 15:00
Sunday 26 May, 12:00 and 15:00
Be sure to check out the Schiedam website for additional information and ticket sales.

Relax by the water
Hopping from festival to festival? Take a break at the Lange Haven. Have a drink, enjoy a barbecue. Apparently, there's also going to be a gin-chocolate workshop.

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