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Couleur Café Festival
Festival Couleur Café
Genre Funk
Hip hop
Reggae
Dance
Soul
Blues
Rock
DatesEnd of June/early July
Location(s) Brussels, Belgium
Years active1990 - present

Couleur Café Festival is an annual urban contemporary music festival taking place around the end of June or early July in the city of Brussels, Belgium, organised since 1990. Since its inception, the festival had been located at Tour & Taxis, but from its 2017 edition it has moved to the Heysel Plateau near the Atomium. The scope of the three-day festival lies on world music with as main styles funk, hiphop, reggae, dance, dub, soul, Latin, blues and rock divided over four stages. Internationally famous acts as well as less known talent or locally popular musicians are represented.

Apart from the music itself there is also a large art exposition, a market with young designers, dance workshops, cocktail bars and food stands from a worldwide variety of kitchens (fifty countries). Festival visitors can camp nearby at Camping Zen.

In 2014, the entire event counted 72,000 visitors over three days. [1]

Featured performers

Performers at previous festivals included:


2017

Red Stage Green Stage Blue Stage Elektropedia Black Stage
Friday 30 June Ronnie Flex & Deuxperience Band
Patrice
-M- presents Lamomali
Orishas
Pura Vida
Kabaka Pyramid & The Bebble Rockers
Vald
Roméo Elvis x Le Motel
Birdy Nam Nam
J Bernardt
Flavia Coelho
Fatima
Sango
Goodfellas Sound System x Supafly Collective
Saturday 1 July Yaniss Odua
Oumou Sangaré
Emir Kusturica & The No Smoking Orchestra
Toots and The Maytals
The Roots
Sysmo
Scylla
Coely
Niveau4
Tomi & Su Timbalight
Daniel Dzidzonu
Demi Portion
La Dame Blanche
Baloji
LeFtO
Compact Disk Dummies
Goodfellas Sound System x Supafly Collective
Sunday 2 July Jungle by Night
Kery James
Alpha Blondy
Flatbush Zombies
Damian "Jr. Gong" Marley
Caballero & Jeanjass
Jupiter & Okwess
Lil Dicky
Lianne La Havas (solo)
Deluxe
Soom T
Jmsn
Princess Nokia
Loyle Carner
Guts Live Band
Batuk
Goodfellas Sound System x Supafly Collective

2018

Red Stage Green Stage Blue Stage Black Stage
Friday 29 June Damso
Alborosie
Angèle
Amadou & Mariam
Selah Sue
Ibeyi
Panda Dub
Dubioza Kolekttiv
Melanie de biasio
Mahalia
Oddissee
Togo All stars
The Color Grey
Makala, Di-meh, Slim K
Saturday 30 June Blackwave
George Clinton
Naaman
Chronixx
Residente
Gregory Porter
Akua Naru
Temetan
Leon Bridges
Underachievers
Alia
Niveau4
El Caribe Funk
Tank & The Bangas
Juicy
De palenque a matonge
Sunday 1 July Coely
Milky Chance
Ziggy Marley
Young Thug
Chinese Man
Calypso Rose
Stikstof
Lee Fields
Tarrius Riley
Fatoumata Diawara
Masego
L'or du commun
Meta Meta
Smino
Le 77
Chico y Mendes

2019

Red Stage Green Stage Blue Stage Black Stage
Friday 28 June Sean Paul
Zwangere Guy
Xavier Rudd
Kabaka Pyramid
Wizkid
Mick Jenkins
Night Lovell
Kokoroko
Les Amazones D'Afrique
Arp Frique
La Yegros
Samory-I
Kojaque
Dvtch Norris
Saturday 29 June Craig David presents TS5
Salif Keita
Gentleman
Joyner Lucas
Inna De Yard
Kamasi Washington
Tamino
Hamza
Niveau4 XXL
Veence Hanao & Le Motel
Loud
Oshun
BCUC
Hollie Cook
Shayfeen&Madd
Bombataz
Sunday 30 June Ms. Lauryn Hill
Goran Bregovic
Tiken Jah Fakoly
Protoje
Amparanoia
Groundation
Rejjie Snow
The Cat Empire
Kokoko!
Isha
Sampa The Great
Glauque
Kabola
Lachy Y la Suprema Ley
Martha Da'ro

References

  1. ^ lbo (29 Jun 2014). "Derde en zonnigste dag Couleur Café trekt 22.000 festivalgangers". Het Nieuwsblad. Retrieved 6 Sep 2014.
  2. ^ "Couleur Café 2013: de affiche is compleet!". HUMO. 7 May 2013.
  3. ^ gjs (12 Mar 2013). "MUZIEK. Faithless komt naar Couleur Café". De Standaard.

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