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🎵 115 events in 2 weeks
Concerts in Ghent: according to Shou, 115 events over the next two weeks (1 November – 14 November).
Ghent pulses with life over the next two weeks across one hundred fifteen events, led by ninety-nine vibrant concerts. Experience the heavy energy of Rise And Fall celebrating twenty years of Into Oblivion, alongside compelling performances by Momoko Gill, Stef Bos, and Health with Vowws.
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MusicRise And Fall - 20 Years of Into Oblivion + 4 bandsSat 7 Nov · Kunstencentrum VIERNULVIER · Ghent
MusicBenjamin Verdonck / Theater Artemis & Wiener Festwochen - All before Death is LifeWed 4 Nov · Kunstencentrum VIERNULVIER · Ghent
MusicFreeMomoko Gill - support tbcFri 13 Nov · Kunstencentrum VIERNULVIER · Ghent
MusicStef Bos - Solo TourThu 12 Nov · Kunstencentrum VIERNULVIER · Ghent
MusicAn Miller, Koen Vanmechelen & Dimitri Leue - Ode to WonderFri 6 Nov · Kunstencentrum VIERNULVIER · Ghent
MusicHealth - support: VowwsTue 10 Nov · Kunstencentrum VIERNULVIER · Ghent🗓️Today12 in 2 weeks
MusicSunday SessionsEvery Sunday at De Kleine Kunst: Sunday Sessions.
🎷 Free concerts in an intimate setting. Our living room is open to anyone who comes to listen comfortably on Sunday to blues, jazz, folk, singer-songwriters and anything resembling that.
🎵 Every Sunday we invite a musician who stands out to us because of special music, an own style or simply a high OSM (Ons Soort Mens) content. Come down and break the day with a beer or a delicious daily special.
📅 Every Sunday at 15h, free admission.Sun 1 Nov · 15:00De Kleine Kunst · GhentUntil 27 DecFree
MusicMissy Sippy Program October 26Sun 1 NovMissy Sippy · GhentUntil 8 Nov
MusicA Streetcar Named DesireMeesterwerk van Tennessee Williams through Belgisch Repertoire Theater.
When aristocratic Blanche DuBois loses everything, she seeks refuge with her sister Stella in a poor working-class neighborhood. But her dream world clashes mercilessly with the raw reality of Stella's husband, Stanley Kowalski, an immigrant.
What follows is a sultry, explosive struggle between two faces of America: the melancholic beauty of faded glory versus the merciless drive of 'the American Dream'. As the temperature and tensions rise, everyone gets entangled in a web of desire, power, and despair. How long can Stella stay standing between two people she loves?Sun 1 Nov · 20:00Theater Box · GhentUntil 21 Novfrom €19
MusicDonkeyshot GangstershitIf I die today, know that I lived on the edge of the world.
That I crawled out of the shit and went sky high,
that I didn't live to be small.
That I was a wolf in dark times
because there are wolves everywhere.
Because if you want to achieve something, you have to be able to bite.
Everyone has a role to play in life
I play the role of a wolf. Why?
Look at the world. There are wolves running around everywhere.
I walk on the street, I scan the space,
I check who I am going to bite and who I have to be silent against.
Because honestly, in the end, it's eat or be eaten.
‘Donkeyshot Gangstershit’ is about the intoxication of the big life.
If you are a rock, then you cannot break! But the question is, if you are stuck in the hard reality, can you still breathe freely? Because men might not be allowed to cry, but wolves are!Sun 1 Nov · 20:00Arsenaal Site · GhentUntil 13 Novfrom €8
MusicDia De Los Muertos '26The monarch butterfly (Danaus plexippus) travels up to 5,000 kilometers annually between Canada, the Verenigde Staten, and Mexico. This spectacular migration is one of the most impressive natural phenomena in the world.
In Mexico, the arrival or return of the monarch butterflies coincides with Día de los Muertos, the holiday on which deceased loved ones are commemorated.
On 31/10, the monarch butterflies land in De Centralevoor for an authentic celebration of Día de los Muertos, curated for the 11th time already by Marcela Narvaez Dávila.
Mariachi de Ambereszorgt for the perfect warm-up with a festive set full of Mexican classics, mariachi harmonies, and irresistible serenades.
Next, AYEKAN takes over the stage. This band from Chile and Peru brings an infectious mix of cumbia, huayno, salsa, saya, and other Latin American styles. With psychedelic electronic sounds, warm string instruments, and uplifting rhythms, Ayekan guarantees a vibrant and heartwarming concert.
After the costume contest, La Mambotecahet takes over the party. Their DJs celebrate the richness of Latin American music culture, ranging from timeless classics to the contemporary sounds coloring the continent today. A party for all generations, until the early hours.Sun 1 Nov · 20:30–03:00De Centrale · Ghentfrom €9
MusicEcho Sessions x Mokabon: Camilo Donoso live concertCamilo Donoso plays a subdued set on November 1 in the most legendary coffee shop in Ghent. We kick off Gand Gourmand together. Two sessions of 45 minutes each at a very democratic price + one free filter coffee of the month!
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Zondag November 1.
First session at 10:00, second at 11:00.
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Mokabon, Donkersteeg 35, 9000 Gent
Tickets
€7, online or at the door. Buy online and your place is secure, or pay at the door as long as there is room. 50 places per session and full is full.Sun 1 Nov · 10:00–11:45Mokabon · Ghentfrom €7
MusicHertog Blauwbaards castle - Thomas Bauer, Katrien Baerts & OxalysIntimate makeover of Bartók's claustrophobic psychological thriller
A castle full of secrets, a young woman who stays despite creepy rumors, seven doors that are better left closed: Bartók's best stage work is a psychological thriller in opera form. Oxalys brings the one-act play in a stunningly strong chamber music version, supplemented with electronics and a prologue by Siebe Thijs. Thomas Bauer and Katrien Baerts give voice to Bluebeard and Judith, Lise Bruyneel reinforces the claustrophobia with videographics. A creation that asks questions and keeps the answers finely to itself.Sun 1 Nov · 15:00–16:10Muziekcentrum De Bijloke Gent · Ghentfrom €10
MusicReveil on 3 Gentse begraafplaatsenFor several years now, almost 1 in 2 Flemish municipalities has organized a consolation concert or moment of reflection on All Saints' Day, Reveil. During this event, local musicians, poets, and storytellers pay tribute to the deceased.
Ook de Stad Gent is participating in Reveil on November 1 between 3:00 PM and 6:00 PM with activities at three Gentse begraafplaatsen:
Gentbrugge
Sint-Amandsberg
Westerbegraafplaats
Je are welcome to bring their own small light, which creates an extra cozy atmosphere.
More information about all activities can be found at www.stad.gent/reveilSun 1 Nov · 15:00–18:00Gentse begraafplaatsen · GhentFree
MusicDia De Los Muertos: DETAX (BE) + Dieseldudes (US) + Chairs & Benches (BE) + Slinger (BE)Dia De Los Muertos Today we celebrate the dead! (And also our own living legend Dave!) Loud music, cold beers and tasty burritos! Come dance! SWEATY, HYPER ROMAN ELECTRO PUNK FOR YOU TO HEAR WHILE YOUR BODY IS GROWING STRONGER Bandcamp
Anarcho punk from Ghent started in feb. '19. So far we've been touring in Germany, Czech Republic, Poland and Spain. Lp out on Grow Your Own Records soon! Bandcamp
Slinger produces heavy duty electronic compositions decorated with blues crooner vocals. Everybody wiggle! Bandcamp
Stoelen en Banken is not a band, it is an interior construction in ruins. We make music that sounds like a hardware store exploding in slow motion: heavy, messy, and yet with precision in every splinter. Do not expect neat lines or smooth surfaces. We screw metal to sludge, hammer grunge tight with rusty jazz, and seal everything shut with a thick layer of doomgaze. Sometimes slow like a cabinet falling over, sometimes fierce like a runaway screwdriver in your face. VI.BESun 1 Nov · 16:00Kinky Star · GhentFree
MusicRequiem Mozart - La Chapelle Sauvage conducted by Karel De WildeTo conclude the Fight against Cancer month, two special performances of Mozart's world-famous Requiem will take place in Bruges on 31 October and in Ghent on 1 November.
Het Internationaal Ensemble La Chapelle Sauvage presents this masterpiece under the direction of conductor Karel De Wilde.
Mozarts Requiem belongs to the most poignant works in classical music. From the impressive power of the Dies Irae to the moving beauty of the Lacrimosa: this is music that touches, carries away, and continues to resonate for a long time.
These concerts are entirely dedicated to Fight against Cancer and form a special musical conclusion of a month in which connectedness, hope, and solidarity are central.
Come listen, bring family and friends, and make a difference together. With the support for Fight against Cancer, investments are made in research, better treatments, and care, with one important hope: giving people more time, saving more lives, and being able to overcome cancer more and more often.
📍 31 October – 15:00 – Koninklijke Stadsschouwburg Brugge
📍 1 November – 17:00 – Our-Lady-Saint-Pieterskerk Gent
Beleef the power of Mozarts Requiem. Steun Kom against Cancer. And help make a difference.Sun 1 Nov · 17:00–18:00Sint-Pieterskerk · Ghentfrom €25
MusicMarcelleMarcelle is the musical project of the Ghent singer-songwriter and producer Marte Truyers. The name is a tribute to Marcel, her deceased rooster, and to all uncles with beer bellies. A quirky combination that immediately makes it clear that she does not follow beaten paths.
What started with personal songs on guitar grew into a band project in which narrative songs, multi-part vocals, and an organic sound come together. Met Tom Peeters on drums, Zjef Van Steenbergen on double bass, and Werend Van den Bossche on saxophone, Marcelle moves between singer-songwriter, jazzy Americana, and alternative folk.
Somewhere between the individuality of Feist, the frankness of Adrianne Lenker, and the raw work of PJ Harvey, Marcelle seeks her own path. Her songs are sometimes small and subdued, sometimes playful and headstrong, but always start from a personal perspective. No grand gestures, but music with character, room for detail, and an eye for what usually falls between the lines.
In 2025, Marcelle was selected for Sound Track and played at, among others, Boomtown and Luisterplein during the Gentse Feesten. Marte is currently working on her first EP and, with her band, is continuing to build a live sound in which the songs get all the space they need.
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Tagged: MarcelleSun 1 Nov · 21:00–22:00Café de Loge · GhentFree
MusicDuo “Alors ? … Voilà !” Plays Django Book and moreALORS ? … VOILÀ !
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Ann Vancoillie & Leander Vertriest
A new duo is born.
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Afgelopen zomer improviseerden accordeonist Leander Vertriest en violiste Ann Vancoillie als bij toeval voor het eerst samen. Het klikte meteen.
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Enkele maanden later besloten ze zich samen verder te verdiepen in het repertoire van Django Reinhardt en de jazz manouche — muziek waarin swing, virtuositeit en improvisatie centraal staan.
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Dat bleek hen bijzonder goed te liggen. Tijdens de repetities bleef het niet alleen bij Django: er ontstonden ook vrije improvisaties en zelfs een kleine uitstap naar Giant Steps.
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En wat muzikaal zo vanzelfsprekend aanvoelt, verdient een vervolg.
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Ook de naam komt uit de wereld van de jazz manouche.
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“Alors ? … Voilà !” is een compositie van de bekende Franse gypsy-jazzgitarist Romane — artiestennaam van Patrick Leguidecoq. Het nummer werd onder meer opgenomen door Tchavolo Schmitt op zijn gelijknamige album Alors ? … Voilà ! uit 2000.
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Toen we de titel in ons Django- en gypsy-jazzrepertoire tegenkwamen, vonden we hem meteen onweerstaanbaar als naam voor het duo: speels, eigenzinnig, een tikje Frans en helemaal passend bij onze muzikale wereld.
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Dus kaapten we de titel met plezier weg. 😉
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ALORS ? … VOILÀ ! — plays Django and more
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Django Reinhardt vormt het vertrekpunt, maar niet noodzakelijk het eindpunt. Het repertoire beweegt van bekende Django-composities en jazz manouche naar eigen arrangementen, improvisatie en af en toe een onverwachte muzikale omweg.
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LEANDER VERTRIEST — ACCORDEON
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De Gentse accordeonist Leander Vertriest beweegt zich in een brede muzikale wereld waarin jazz, jazz manouche, musette, folk, chanson, hedendaagse muziek en improvisatie elkaar ontmoeten.
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Hij behaalde een Master of Arts in accordeon en verdiepte zich daarnaast in jazzaccordeon aan KASK & Conservatorium Gent, onder andere bij Tuur Florizoone.
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Momenteel volgt hij een ManaMa in hedendaagse klassieke muziek, waarmee hij zijn muzikale taal verder verbreedt en de verbinding onderzoekt tussen klassiek en hedendaags repertoire, improvisatie en nieuwe muzikale vormen.
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In 2025 realiseerde hij het multidisciplinaire project The Light and His Intergalactic Stars, waarin compositie, improvisatie, theater en performance samenkwamen.
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Leander is actief in uiteenlopende ensembles en projecten. Eerder speelde hij onder meer met Duo Vertriest–Baculalay, waarin jazz, gypsy, musette en folklore werden gecombineerd.
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Zijn brede muzikale achtergrond, ritmische drive en gevoel voor improvisatie geven het duo mee zijn eigen karakter.
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ANN VANCOILLIE — VIOOL
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Ann Vancoillie is klassiek en jazzvioliste, improvisator en docent.
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Ze is eerste viool, tweede solist bij Opera Ballet Vlaanderen en combineert een jarenlange professionele carrière in opera, orkest- en kamermuziek met haar werk als jazzvioliste, soliste en improvisator.
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Ze behaalde een Master of Performing Arts & Pedagogy in viool en kamermuziek en rondde in 2024, naast haar voltijdse orkestcarrière, een Bachelor Jazz Violin aan het Conservatoire Royal de Bruxelles af.
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Naast het klassieke repertoire heeft Ann ook een ruime ervaring in hedendaagse muziek. Ze speelde onder meer bij Champ d’Action en werkte mee aan diverse creaties en premières van hedendaagse componisten, zowel voor solo viool als in bezettingen voor viool en harp en viool en piano.
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Naast haar werk bij Opera Ballet Vlaanderen is Ann actief als soliste en in uiteenlopende cross-overprojecten. Haar muzikale wereld gaat van klassiek en hedendaags repertoire tot jazz, gypsy jazz, Braziliaanse choro, Cubaanse muziek en vrije improvisatie.
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Harmonie, ritme en improvisatie vormen belangrijke elementen in haar spel en pedagogische werk, waarbij haar klassieke, hedendaagse en jazzachtergrond voortdurend met elkaar verbonden worden.
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In Alors ? … Voilà ! ontmoeten viool en accordeon elkaar vanuit twee brede muzikale achtergronden, met Django Reinhardt als vertrekpunt en alle ruimte om van daaruit verder te gaan.
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More to follow… 🎻🪗
ALORS ? … VOILÀ !
plays Django and more 🎻🪗
Ann Vancoillie & Leander Vertriest⠀
A new duo is born.
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Last summer, accordionist Leander Vertriest and violinist Ann Vancoillie happened to improvise together for the first time. The musical connection was immediate.
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A few months later, they decided to explore the repertoire of Django Reinhardt and jazz manouche more deeply — music in which swing, virtuosity and improvisation play a central role.
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It suited them remarkably well. Their rehearsals soon moved beyond Django too, leading to free improvisations and even a brief excursion into Giant Steps.
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And when something feels this natural musically, it deserves to be continued.
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The name also comes from the world of jazz manouche.
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“Alors ? … Voilà !” is a composition by the renowned French gypsy-jazz guitarist Romane — the stage name of Patrick Leguidecoq. The piece was also recorded by Tchavolo Schmitt on his 2000 album of the same name, Alors ? … Voilà !
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When we came across the title in our Django and gypsy-jazz repertoire, we immediately thought it was irresistible as a name for the duo: playful, slightly unconventional, unmistakably French and perfectly suited to our musical world.
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So we happily borrowed the title for ourselves. 😉
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ALORS ? … VOILÀ ! — plays Django and more
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Django Reinhardt is the starting point, but not necessarily the final destination. The repertoire moves from well-known Django compositions and jazz manouche to original arrangements, improvisation and the occasional unexpected musical detour.
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LEANDER VERTRIEST — ACCORDION
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Ghent-based accordionist Leander Vertriest moves through a broad musical world in which jazz, jazz manouche, musette, folk, chanson, contemporary music and improvisation meet.
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He holds a Master of Arts in Accordion and further developed his jazz accordion playing at KASK & Conservatorium Ghent, among others with Tuur Florizoone.
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He is currently pursuing a ManaMa in Contemporary Classical Music, further broadening his musical language and exploring connections between classical and contemporary repertoire, improvisation and new musical forms.
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In 2025, he created the multidisciplinary project The Light and His Intergalactic Stars, bringing together composition, improvisation, theatre and performance.
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Leander is active in a variety of ensembles and projects. He previously performed with Duo Vertriest–Baculalay, combining jazz, gypsy, musette and folk influences.
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His broad musical background, rhythmic drive and instinct for improvisation give the duo much of its distinctive character.
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ANN VANCOILLIE — VIOLIN
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Ann Vancoillie is a classical and jazz violinist, improviser and teacher.
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She is First Violin, Second Soloist at Opera Ballet Vlaanderen and combines a long professional career in opera, orchestral and chamber music with her work as a jazz violinist, soloist and improviser.
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She holds a Master of Performing Arts & Pedagogy in violin and chamber music and, in 2024, while continuing her full-time orchestral career, completed a Bachelor in Jazz Violin at the Conservatoire Royal de Bruxelles.
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Alongside the classical repertoire, Ann also has extensive experience in contemporary music. She performed with Champ d’Action and took part in various creations and premieres of works by contemporary composers, including repertoire for solo violin, violin and harp, and violin and piano.
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Alongside her work at Opera Ballet Vlaanderen, Ann performs as a soloist and in a wide range of crossover projects. Her musical world spans classical and contemporary music, jazz, gypsy jazz, Brazilian choro, Cuban music and free improvisation.
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Harmony, rhythm and improvisation are central to both her playing and her teaching, with her classical, contemporary and jazz backgrounds constantly informing one another.
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In Alors ? … Voilà !, violin and accordion meet through two wide-ranging musical backgrounds, with Django Reinhardt as aSun 1 Nov · 21:00–22:30Bar Lume · GhentFree
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MusicHossein Behroozinia & Pouriya Jaberi | Labyrinth 26Hossein Behroozinia (Tehran, 1962) is considered one of the most important contemporary interpreters of the barbat, the Persian variant of the oud. At a young age he was admitted to the Conservatorium van Teheran, where he studied tar with Reza Vohdaney and lute with Mansour Nariman. Later he further immersed himself in the Persian classical music tradition and the radif under the guidance of the renowned master Mohammad Reza Lotfi.
His exceptional talent did not go unnoticed: already at the age of seventeen Behroozinia taught at the Iraanse Centre for Preservation and Propagation of Music, an institution dedicated to the preservation and transmission of classical Persian music. In addition to his activities as a performing musician, he held various leadership positions within the music world. As a musician, teacher and mentor he plays an important role in passing on and preserving the Persian musical heritage for new generations of musicians.
Pouriya Jaberi (Kermanshah, 1987) is a percussionist and interpreter of traditional Persian music. He grew up in a family where music, poetry and spirituality occupied a central place.
Since the age of eight he has played the daf, the traditional Persian frame drum. At fifteen years old he won a prize at the prestigious Fajr International Music Festival, an important recognition of his exceptional talent.
Pouriya Jaberi has performed at numerous festivals in Asia, Europe and Australia. His music reflects his deep connection with spirituality, meaning and contemplation.Mon 2 Nov · 20:00–22:00De Centrale · Ghentfrom €12
MusicMonday Concert // FyndusA concept as old as the DVD, Dolly the sheep and the Nintendo 64 – and one that has stood the test of time better: our Monday concerts. For thirty years, Monday has been a second Friday with us, thanks to bands that come to fill our café in an incomparable way.
Welcome to the wonderful world of Fyndus, a new musical folk duo with Emma Coopman (vocals, Celtic harp & diatonic accordion) & Thomas Hoste (electro-acoustic alto hurdy-gurdy & sound effects).
Together we bring danceable listening music or listenable dance music. Enjoy our musical stories and be amazed by the magical harmony of our instruments.Mon 2 Nov · 21:00Trefpunt · GhentFree
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MusicAn Miller, Koen Vanmechelen & Dimitri Leue - Ode to WonderOn the occasion of her curatorship of Theater aan Zee in 2021, Caroline Pauwels wrote a beautiful ode to wonder. A plea to open your senses and let your ideas evolve. Children are often full of wonder. Why is the sea blue? Why does it get dark? Why is that man bald? Somewhere on the way to adulthood, most of us lose that open-mindedness. Gradually, the fire of curiosity is extinguished: things are just what they are, there is nothing new under the sun. And that is a pity. Wonder gives life color, helps to push our boundaries, and encourages us to question false certainties. In her book 'Ode to Wonder', Caroline Pauwels makes a passionate plea to look at the world with that childlike gaze again. In science and art, but also in the big and small moments of every day. This 'Ode to Wonder' is just as much an ode to the late rector of the VUB, Caroline Pauwels. With texts by Caroline and music she loved. The rector was a public figure with a love for the arts. She was, among other things, curator for Theater Aan Zee. For the VRT, she made the series 'The insights of Caroline Pauwels' and the VRT also made the 'Vier Seizoenen van Caroline Pauwels'. An Miller crawls into the skin of Caroline Pauwels. Although she has mainly worked for television and film in recent years, An has rediscovered her love for the stage with the remarkable play 'Familie' by Milo Rau/NTGent.Fri 6 Nov · 19:30–20:40Kunstencentrum VIERNULVIER · Ghentfrom €29
MusicSlow CrushFrom Van Canada to Colombia, shoegazers fall head over heels for Slow Crush, one of the most successful guitar bands from the Lage Landen. The Deze Vlaams-British formation tours incessantly all over the world, making Belgian club shows rare. Their appearance on Friday, November 06, in Club Wintercircus is therefore an exclusive opportunity to experience them live.
After four years of touring and experimenting in the studio, the band presents their latest album Thirst (Pure Noise Records). Together with producer Lewis Johns (Rolo Tomassi, Svalbard), they pushed the boundaries: the result is scorching shoegaze with a raw edge. Think of dreamy vocals, gritty guitars, glitchy textures, and here and there an unexpected saxophone. Frontvrouw Isa Holliday digs deeper than ever in her lyrics and balances between emotional intensity and subdued beauty.
For fans of: Nothing, Deftones, Slowdive, Whirr, Holy Fawn, and My Bloody Valentine.Fri 6 Nov · 19:30Club Wintercircus · Ghentfrom €26
MusicSymphony Orchestra KASK & ConservatoryTeacher and conductor Michel Tilkin will work with the classical music students of KASK & Conservatory during this project week. They will concentrate on the Coriolanus Ouverturevan Beethoven and Mendelssohn’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream.
Michel Tilkin started as a trombonist with the Philharmonisch Orkest van Rotterdam, and began his collaborations with major conductors here. He has conducted at the Bangkok Symphony Orchestra, the Gelders Orkest from Arnhem, and the Limburgs Symphonie Orkest, but above all built a solid reputation in Germany where he has conducted at the Nürnberger Symphoniker, the Philharmonie Südwestfalen, and the Philharmonisch Orkest van Vorpommern, among others.
Symphony Orchestra of KASK & Conservatory conducted by Michel Tilkin
Marta Infante piano (soloist)
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L. v. Beethoven (1770-1827)
– Coriolanus Ouverture
F. Mendelssohn (1809-1847)
– A Midsummer Night’s Dream (suite)Fri 6 Nov · 20:00–21:30MIRY concertzaal · GhentFree
MusicBûlent Kôken & TINIBülent Köken, together with Grup Tını, a group of Ghent folk musicians with Turkish roots, presents a special program of traditional Anatolian folk music.
With their warm sounds and soulful interpretations, they perform poignant songs that tell stories of love, longing, sorrow, and life. The combination of authentic saz sounds and the musical richness of the Anatolian tradition takes the audience on a moving musical journey.
Bülent Köken: saz and vocals.
Murtaza Battal: Klarinet
Mehmet Karatas: GuitarFri 6 Nov · 20:30–23:00Muzikantenhuis vzw · Ghent
MusicRise And Fall - 20 Years of Into Oblivion + 4 bandsRise And Fall returns to the stage for the first time since 2012. On November 7, they will play in their hometown of Ghent in the iconic De Vooruit, on the occasion of the 20th anniversary of Into Oblivion. The set will reflect that milestone, with the album central, alongside material from the rest of their catalog.
For more than ten years, Rise And Fall has built a reputation as one of Europe's most uncompromising hardcore bands. Thoughtful, intense, and unmistakably their own. The band was founded in the early 2000s in Ghent and built its name by constantly touring and regularly releasing new releases: four albums and four EPs, largely released by Deathwish Inc., the label founded by J. Bannon van Converge.
At the end of 2012, the band stopped performing live. There was no official breakup, no farewell concert, no drama. Just a break that ultimately lasted much longer than expected.
Fourteen years later, Rise And Fall returns to the stage for the first time. In the intervening years, the band members never stopped creating and remained active in bands such as Wiegedood, Oathbreaker, Raw Peace, Wrong Man, Force, Crouch, Blind To Faith, and Living Gate.
Rise And Fall never officially stopped; they just went quiet. On November 7, that silence will come to an end.
Support acts will be announced later.Sat 7 Nov · 18:00–23:10Kunstencentrum VIERNULVIER · Ghentfrom €25
MusicDvořák 8 - Alexandra Soumm & Symfonieorkest VlaanderenWith much bravado, violinist Alexandra Soumm links the zest for life of Mozart and Dvořák to the subtlety of Vaughan Williams
Met Allerheiligen and Armistice is November the month to remember what was and to commemorate what should never have happened. Vaughan Williams, marked by the horrors of the Eerste Wereldoorlog, remembers better times with melancholy. In his music, he seeks a way out of the madness of war through stillness, tenderness, and poetry, in a typically English pastoral sound world. Mozart and Dvořák, on the other hand, burst with zest for life and happy memories of home. Mozart in the Viennese way, Dvořák with a warm wink to his Bohemian roots.Sat 7 Nov · 20:00–22:00Muziekcentrum De Bijloke Gent · Ghentfrom €10
MusicAmadou, Ribot & SmithFirmly rooted between jazz and texture Three distinctive voices from the international improvisation scene join forces in this power trio, operating at the intersection of free jazz, noise and electro-acoustic improvisation. The idiosyncratic guitar idiom of the influential Marc Ribot is joined by the radical, intuitive electric bass lines of the increasingly acclaimed Brussels-based Farida Amadou, and the layered, adventurous drumming of Ches Smith. Starting from open structures, they build intense soundscapes in which texture, rhythm and silence constantly reshape one another. Individual signatures remain audible, but are deployed in the service of collective exploration and immediate interaction. For fans of John Zorn, Mary Halvorson, Bill Orcutt, The Thing Marc Ribot Trio Farida Amadou (electric bass), Marc Ribot (guitar), Ches Smith (drums, percussion) “One of the most cunning drummers on the experimental scene.” — The New York TimesSat 7 Nov · 20:15–23:00Ha Concerts · Ghentfrom €32
MusicI woke up first (2.5+)Klein Drama plays 'Ik werd als eerste wakker' (2.5+).
About one girl, two grandmas and three… no... four seasons!
A touching performance for people aged 2.5 and up
about small and big, life, love and death.
text and direction: Katrien De Bruycker and Raf Walschaerts (Kommil Foo)
cast: Rosalie Custers
Meer info at www.kleindrama.be.
Tickets via www.kleindrama.be/gentSun 8 Nov · 14:00–16:45NTGent Minnemeers · Ghentfrom €13
MusicIMPRO-TASTIC | impro for children (NL) @ Amai Comedy ClubWelcome to ImproTastisch: a cheerful, interactive improv show specially made for children from 5 years old, but secretly also a lot of fun for parents, grandparents, and older brothers or sisters!
Nothing is thought up in advance – everything is created on the spot with your help!
Our players invent funny scenes, crazy characters and even cheerful songs, entirely based on suggestions from the audience.
Each show is unique, full of humor, imagination and playful wonder.
Whether you like to watch or play along loudly: at ImproTastisch you will have a great time together!Sun 8 Nov · 15:00–18:00AmaiComedyClub · Ghentfrom €8
MusicEchoes of UkraineDuring Echo’s van Oekraïne we bring together artists from Ukraine, Belgium, Venezuela, Colombia, Kazakhstan, and Belarus for a special concert afternoon.
Get acquainted with the richness of Ukrainian classical music, surprising contemporary interpretations, and a lot of Ghent cultural diversity.
An internationally composed ensemble \"United by Bridges Orchestra\" presents Ukrainian melodies in a chamber music format. Besides a classical program, Anastasii Kenner, Pal Szomora, and Dirk Brossé present original new work and contemporary arrangements.
During this concert afternoon we pay special attention to the bandura, a traditional Ukrainian plucked string instrument that combines characteristics of both the lute and the zither. During Echo’s van Oekraïne Anna and Svitlana Sonyk bring a series of unique solos and duets in which this special instrument takes center stage. On Sunday morning they will also provide a special Diwan Sessie masterclass within our Music Workshops.
After the concert you can still enjoy various sweet and savory treats from Ukrainian cuisine.Sun 8 Nov · 15:00De Centrale · Ghentfrom €17
MusicDi Domenico / Cabras / ThielemansThis concert will take place at: Café Django, Antwerpsesteenweg 330, 9040 Ghent As a city of music, Ghent has a rich cultural heritage. To ensure this remains the case, this spring we are supporting Troika vzw in their mission to sharpen the ears of curious listeners through adventurous music. Giovanni Di Domenico Giovanni Di Domenico, born in Rome on 20 July 1977, is a pianist currently living in Brussels. He studied jazz piano and developed a versatile technique in which non-Western traditions converge with influences from classical music, avant-garde jazz and pop. He has collaborated with musicians such as Nate Wooley, Chris Corsano and Jim O’Rourke. He also runs his own record label, Silent Water. Manolo Cabras Manolo Cabras, born in Cagliari, began playing classical violin at the age of 11 and later switched to double bass. He obtained jazz diplomas in Siena and at the Royal Conservatoire in The Hague, and attended masterclasses with, amongst others, Dave Holland. He now lives in Brussels and is a fixture on the Belgian jazz scene. He has performed at European and Asian festivals alongside icons such as Toots Thielemans and Enrico Rava. As well as collaborating with numerous bands (including the Erik Vermeulen Trio and Manu Hermia Freetet), he leads his own projects such as Fuzzy, the Manolo Cabras Quartet, Thelenyon Theory and Flying Nimbus. Eric Thielemans Eric Thielemans is a drummer, percussionist and musical thinker. He is known for his solo ventures (such as ‘a Snare is a Bell’) and collaborations within experimental music, jazz and indie. He has collaborated with artists including Oren Ambarchi, Charlemagne Palestine, Chantal Acda, Billy Hart and Laurie Anderson. His work increasingly transcends the world of music, touching on visual arts, architecture and the performing arts, with a strong focus on site-specific projects and spatial experiences. In November 2022, he published the book *On Resonance: Scores, Notes &amSun 8 Nov · 17:00–18:00Ha Concerts · Ghent
MusicFrances SoenA quirky voice, warm, dreamy songs that come straight from the heart and an abundance of charm: that is Frances Soen. What began small and intuitively between brother and sister grew into a personal repertoire of Dutch-language songs that feel like pages from a diary: honest, vulnerable and unfiltered.
\ln 2026 she was crowned laureate of Sound Track and became artist in residence at Wilde Westen. She has already performed on various Belgian stages (AB Club, De Roma, 4AD, Het Depot, De Kreun...) and is currently working further on an intimate live show.
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MusicJamie Woon SoloJamie Woon grew up in London as the son of Celtic singer Mae McKenna, studied at the BRIT School (a year after Amy Winehouse), and broke through in 2010 with Night Air, a single co-produced by Burial that brought together post-dubstep and intimate R&B in a way that no one expected. The debut album Mirrorwriting (2011) followed, finished high in the BBC Sound of 2011 poll, and established his name as one of the most idiosyncratic voices in the British soul scene. Then it became quiet. Four years.
Making Time appeared in 2015, was nominated for the Mercury Prize, and then Woon disappeared again. He worked behind the scenes (with Elmiene, Lil Silva, Holly Walker) but his own music was a long time coming. 3, 10, Why, When (2025) is the album that almost wasn't. Co-produced with Martin Terefe and released on his own label Also Can, it is his most vulnerable work to date. Sharp percussion that transitions into strings. 3 AM thoughts next to deep peace. R&B, electronica, and pop that touch each other without falling into a box.Tue 3 Nov · 19:30Club Wintercircus · Ghentfrom €30
MusicYOL ft. Sevdâ Söğütlü | Labyrinth 26Yol (Turkish for 'road') is a live performance in which spoken word and Anatolian music meet. Drawing from her musical heritage, Sevdâ writes spoken word texts that connect the past with the present.
The performance is an ode to the songs that have shaped her and a quest for how music and poetry together create space for encounters between generations and cultures.
Sevdâ Söğütlü is a spoken word artist and poet. She weaves love, philosophy, and multilingualism into a poetic and fluid whole. She became runner-up at the Gents Slampioenschap and won the Personality Award at the Spoken Awards in Rotterdam. Her poetry attempts to build bridges between words and music, across cultures and generations.
Hilde De Clercq is a Belgian musician and performer specialized in Turkish and Arabic music. She sings and plays the darbuka, bendir, riq, oud, and piano, among other instruments.
Mevlüt Akgüngör became passionate about music at an early age through his father, from whom he learned traditional and religious singing. He took saz lessons with De Centrale, but soon found his instrument in the ney, the Turkish reed flute that plays a central role in both Ottoman makam music and the Sufi tradition.
İlhan Eken is a professional player of the bağlama, an iconic instrument within Anatolian folk and protest music.Tue 3 Nov · 20:00–22:00De Centrale · Ghentfrom €12
MusicBenjamin Verdonck / Theater Artemis & Wiener Festwochen - All before Death is LifeAn entertaining evening full of hocus pocus!
A magician with nothing in his hands and (almost) nothing up his sleeves. He fiddles with butter, fools around with photos from newspapers and with a banana and an orange. In the end, he even changes color! This is a performance in which everything goes wrong, about a world stage on which much goes wrong, but where you don't walk away from: you keep searching, singing, feeling, doing somersaults, and falling hard, because all before death is life. A playful and disruptive solo by Benjamin Verdonck, directed by Jetse Batelaan.
“Benjamin back on stage, and how!” - Theaterkrant.nl
“…a brilliant clownery full of cliffhangers.” – Pzazz
“In 'All before death is life', boundless creativity, refinement, and simplicity form a delicious Bermuda triangle in which every predictability disappears.” – Dagkrant Theaterfestival Boulevard
“Inimitable, but consistently engaging.” – Dagkrant Theaterfestival BoulevardWed 4 Nov · 19:30Kunstencentrum VIERNULVIER · GhentUntil 5 Novfrom €10
MusicNOISE ROOM: Yasuaki Shimizu / Catharina Evens - Support: GAMETwo adventurous musical worlds come together during this RUISKAMER. De Japanse saxophonist Yasuaki Shimizu, living legend and cult figure behind the albums ‘Kakashi’ and ‘Utakata No Hibi’, shares the evening with the Brussels pianist and electronics wizard Catharina Evens. Expect an intimate, curious, and layered sound trip in which sax, piano, electronics, and improvisation challenge and embrace each other.
De Japanse saxophonist, composer, and producer Yasuaki Shimizu has been active in the music world for almost fifty years. His work moves effortlessly between pop, jazz, minimalism, soundtracks, and pure experiments. He worked with, among others, Ryuichi Sakamoto, Björk, and Van Dyke Parks. Cult albums ‘Kakashi’ and ‘Utakata No Hibi’, masterful crossings of Japanese folk and pop elements, have found a new audience in recent years thanks to reissues on Palto Flats. Due to the refined electronic/disco production style, they sound just as fresh as in the early 80s.
After a completely sold-out first North American tour ever in 2025, he is now in our RUISKAMER for the first time, a unique chance to hear and see a living legend up close.
Catharina Evens (1997°, Brussels) is a Belgian experimental electro-acoustic pianist who searches for an alternative sound palette for the acoustic piano. She does this, among other things, by manipulating acoustic sounds live via electronics and amplifying them and letting them resonate through the entire sound box and strings of the piano. The typical piano sound, which we usually associate with the acoustic piano, fades and thus makes way for an idiosyncratic sound universe of which she further explores the various musical possibilities via improvisation and composition.
Using granular textures, playful capriciousness, compelling pianistic passages, naive phrases, percussive accents, piano preparations, rhythmic sequences, and exploring the playing space between different music genres, Catharina thus creates her own absurd sound world full of narrative fragments.
An evening on which two totally different but equally curious musical minds meet. Shimizu’s warm, elastic sax lines and his sense of melodic abstraction find a surprising dialogue with Evens’ hybrid piano world full of resonance, electronics, and improvisation. RUISKAMER as it is intended: close, adventurous, and full of room for discovery.Wed 4 Nov · 19:30–22:30Kunstencentrum VIERNULVIER · Ghentfrom €10
MusicIskander MoonIskander Moon is eager to share his first full-fledged album, Salt Moon City (out on February 20), with us. The album feels like a fictional city where every house tells its own story and where small things are allowed to be big. A place where you discover at your own pace who you are and who you want to be — a city you want to return to time and time again.
On November 5, he brings those new songs to life in Club Wintercircus. After his impressive EP Are You Lost Here? last year, which immediately put him on the map as one of the most authentic musicians of his generation, followed a large dose of airplay, a series of sold-out shows and appreciated festival performances, including at Live /s Live and Dranouter. Now he is ready for the next step, one for which Iskander has already tied his laces tight.
For fans of Bon Iver, James Bay, Tom OdellWed 4 Nov · 19:30Club Wintercircus · Ghentfrom €25+1 more date
MusicYasuaki Shimizu / Catharina Evens / GAMEYasuaki Shimizu
De Japanse saxophonist, composer and producer Yasuaki Shimizu has been active in the music world for almost fifty years. His work moves effortlessly between pop, jazz, minimalism, soundtracks, and pure experiments. He has collaborated with Ryuichi Sakamoto, Björk, and Van Dyke Parks, among others. Cult albums ‘Kakashi’ and ‘Utakata No Hibi’, masterly crosses of Japanese folk and pop elements, have found a new audience in recent years thanks to reissues on Palto Flats. Due to the refined electronic/disco production style, they sound just as fresh as in the early ‘80s.
After a completely sold-out first North American tour ever in 2025, he is now in our RUISKAMER for the first time, a unique opportunity to hear and see a living legend up close.
Yasuaki Shimizu is a maverick saxophonist, composer and producer whose almost 50-year career spans an impossibly broad range of genres. He is a well-known musical presence in Japan recognised for his crossover pop hits, film soundtrack work and a host of high-profile live commissions, installations and collaborations with the likes of Ryuichi Sakamoto, Björk, Van Dyke Parks and David Cunningham. Shimizu’s music reached a wider audience in the West following the reissue on Palto Flats of his iconic 1982 solo album Kakashi and his band Mariah’s classic 1983 record Utakata No Hibi – masterful hybrids of Japanese folk and pop idioms filtered via a honed electronic/disco production aesthetic that make them sound fresher than ever today.
Shimizu embarked on his first North American tour in 2025, selling out every show. Don’t miss his stop at RUISKAMER, to witness his ever-evolving artistry.
Catharina Evens
Catharina Evens (1997°, Brussels) is a Belgian experimental electro-acoustic pianist who seeks to explore an alternative sonic palette for the acoustic piano. She achieves this, in part, by manipulating acoustic sounds live using electronics, amplifying them and allowing them to resonate through the piano’s entire soundboard and strings. The typical piano sound, which we usually associate with the acoustic piano, fades away, making way for a unique sonic universe whose various musical possibilities she further explores through improvisation and composition.
Using granular textures, playful capriciousness, compelling pianistic passages, naive phrases, percussive accents, piano preparations, rhythmic sequences and exploring the space between different musical genres, Catharina creates her own absurd world of sound, full of narrative fragments.
Catharina Evens (b. 1997, Brussels) is a Belgian experimental electro-acoustic pianist who seeks to explore an alternative sonic palette for the acoustic piano. She achieves this, in part, by manipulating acoustic sounds live using electronics, amplifying them and allowing them to resonate through the piano’s entire soundboard and strings. The typical piano sound, which we usually associate with the acoustic piano, fades away, making way for a unique sonic universe whose various musical possibilities she further explores through improvisation and composition.
Using granular textures, playful capriciousness, compelling pianistic passages, naive phrases, percussive accents, piano preparations, rhythmic sequences and exploring the space between different musical genres, Catharina creates her own absurd world of sound, full of narrative fragments.
in collaboration with VIERNULVIERWed 4 Nov · 19:30–21:30MIRY concertzaal · Ghentfrom €10
MusicMasters of Labyrinth 26There is a moment in the festival when everything comes together.
Not as a climax that rises above the rest, but as a special encounter in which experience, tradition and imagination find each other.
De Masters of Labyrinth first share the stage in an open musical dialogue: an interweaving of styles, sounds and traditions, each with its own history and meaning. What emerges is not a demonstration of virtuosity, but an exercise in listening — to each other, to the hall and to what presents itself at that moment.
From there, the perspective shifts. A few students are invited on stage, not as students in the shadow of their masters, but as full-fledged musical voices. Generations meet, boundaries between experience and renewal blur, and music unfolds as a shared space of transmission, inspiration and creation.
Featuring a.o. Ross Daly, Niti Ranjan Biswas, Murat Aydemir, Hossein Behroozinia, Mevlüt Akgüngör and Shalan AlhamwyWed 4 Nov · 20:00–22:00De Centrale · Ghentfrom €12
MusicFloris Francis Arthur band - Third album release showFloris Francis Arthur
Het solo project of Floris De Decker (frontman of Team William, musician with The Van Jets and Intergalactic Lovers), live assisted by a rock-solid band with members from, among others, Jan Verstraeten, Vito, Pascal Deweze, and Noémie Wolfs. FFA balances somewhere between darkness and euphoria with a quirky blend of lo-fi indie folk, country, and 90s indie rock. What started as intimate bedroom folk on debut album There Never Is And Never Was A Masterplan, grew on second record Little Did I Know into a layered and powerful band sound that effortlessly made year-end lists. In 2026, FFA takes a new path with a Dutch-language third album, in which his cinematic sound blossoms even further — think: Gorki meets Ennio Morricone. With the first Dutch-language single Hou Me Tegen, meanwhile played to death on Radio 1, FFA already gave a telling preview of what is to come. Expect melancholy, intensity, and songs that continue to resonate.Wed 4 Nov · 20:30–23:00Charlatan · Ghentfrom €15
MusicViktor Perdieus & Stijn DemuynckTwo musicians who let loose on tenor sax and percussion, with repetitive rhythms and improvisation as a connecting factor. Born from spontaneous jam sessions in the orchard and on the street, Viktor Perdieus and Stijn Demuynck bring a colorful mix of rippling grooves and atmospheric improvisations.
Viktor Perdieus — tenor saxophone, clarinet, toy keyboard, bass keyboard, and percussion
Stijn Demuynck — drums and percussion
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MusicLate Thursday:\n'Jenny Montigny' by nightDiscover the exhibition Jenny Montigny in an evening setting. Follow a guided tour, visit the exhibition in the evening light, or hear all about the creation of the exhibition during the lecture evening with the curators.
Late Donderdag
Deze evening takes place in the framework of the Late Donderdag in all Gentse Musea.
Pay attention!
A ticket for the lecture evening 'looking for Jenny Montigny' does not grant access to the MSK.Thu 5 Nov · 18:00–22:00Museum voor Schone Kunsten Gent (MSK) · Ghentfrom €19
MusicThe uprising of the facades - The Opera, Thomas VerstraetenA MUSICAL INTERPRETATION OF THE CITY
During the Odegand festival on Saturday, September 12, two facades in Ghent will tear themselves away from the row of houses and switch places. Accompanied by local residents and musicians, they will approach each other in a procession. Thomas Verstraeten invites everyone to experience this. Discover everything about the caravan here.
After the festive procession, Thomas Verstraeten places the facades on stage as a backdrop for a new performance. He invites the inhabitants of the city to give musical expression to the facades. From hurdy-gurdy to homemade instruments to a DJ deck: a colorful group of people and instruments forms the newly assembled city orchestra that takes on the challenge.
A production of Opera Ballet Vlaanderen in co-production with Gent Festival, VIERNULVIER, NTGent, CAMPO, and KOPERGIETERY.Thu 5 Nov · 20:00–22:00NTGent Schouwburg · Ghentfrom €10+3 more dates
MusicNoche del Vicio Cultural // Martina CamargoNoches de Vicio Cultural is a collaboration between Trefpunt vzw and El Vicio Cultural vzw, where live music, gathering, and the richness of Ibero-Latin American culture come together in the heart of Ghent.
Martina Camargo is considered the most important female voice of the Colombiaanse Tambora, an age-old Afro-Colombian music tradition from the Magdalena River basin. For more than 36 years, she has been bringing this musical heritage form and moving audiences in venues all over the world: Latin America, Europe, Africa, and the Middle East.
In 2024, she was nominated for a Latin Grammy for her album Canto y Río. In 2026, she also received the prestigious Medalla Orden de Pedro Romero for her exceptional contribution to Colombian culture. A new generation discovered her music through electronic remixes that together accumulated more than 500 million streams, but live you experience Martina the way it was meant to be: pure, powerful, and authentic.
For this exclusive stop in Ghent, in the middle of her European tour, Martina travels with her full lineup of six musicians. Expect traditional tambora and currulao percussion, powerful ensemble singing, captivating call-and-response rhythms, and the irresistible energy of the Magdalena River.
No backing tracks. No artificial tricks. Only voices, drums, tradition, and the collective power of live music.
After the concert, we will round off the evening with a tropical DJ set to continue dancing and reminiscing.Thu 5 Nov · 21:00Trefpunt Concertzaal · Ghentfrom €10
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MusicOxalys Ensemble - Belgian Music DaysIn the relentless search for (Belgian) unknown chamber music repertoire that has characterized Oxalys for so many years, about fifteen years ago we came across the small, but magnificent oeuvre of the Liège composer Georges Antoine. Born in 1892 and passed away far too young on November 15, 1918, four days after the armistice. His long stay in the trenches had completely exhausted him due to his already weak health. Not only his early passing, but also his style of composition immediately remind one of that other Franco-Belgian composer: Guillaume Lekeu. A violin sonata and a piano quartet both form the peak in their respective chamber music oeuvres.
A student of Lekeu, who also passed away before his fortieth year, is the composer Albrecht Huybrechts, born in Dinant. He was admitted to the Brussels Conservatory at the age of 11 and left us an once again limited, but magnificent oeuvre. In 1926, after receiving the prestigious Coolidge Prize for his violin sonata, which was premiered in New York with the top French pianist Alfred Cortot at the keyboard, he wrote a trio for the slightly less common instrumentation: flute, viola & piano. Huybrechts’ style sits somewhere between Debussy & Ravel and the modernism of Stravinsky and Bartók. In the second movement, you hear the French refinement of timbre and harmony on the one hand, while the outer movements have a more angular, rhythmic, and earthy approach.
During its existence, Oxalys has also given quite a few composition commissions to Belgian composers. The Antwerp composer Bram Van Camp could not be missing from that list. Voor Oxalys wrote Van Camp in 2017 Mozart’s dissonance; a work that had to take center stage in a Mozart program. Van Camp tries to investigate what happens when you detach Mozartian dissonances from their tonal function.
In In Mozarts music, dissonances often arise as non-harmonic tones within a melodic ornamentation. They create tension, but are subsequently absorbed into a consonant chord. Van Camp takes precisely those dissonant harmonies and says as it were: what if we do not resolve that dissonance? He identified about 15 four-note chords that literally occur in Mozart's music, including their inversions. He then places them in a non-tonal context. As a result, their function changes completely: what is a temporary tension in Mozart becomes an independent sound element in Van Camp. Van Camp not only dissects the harmony, but also the phrasing of Mozart. He notes that Mozart's phrasing often appears very natural and symmetrical, but upon closer inspection can be surprisingly asymmetrical. That asymmetry becomes a starting point for the rhythmic structure of Mozart’s dissonance in Van Camp.Mon 9 Nov · 17:00–18:00Muziekcentrum De Bijloke Gent · Ghentfrom €10
MusicCantus Firmus Belgica - SPECTRAAls de Belgian Music Days settle in the country, we jump on the bandwagon with pleasure
One evening, six composers, one hundred percent Belgium. Cantus Firmus Belgica mixes 3 Flemish and 3 Walloon voices into a sparkling cocktail of contemporary music with iconic pioneers, established values, and wildly interesting newcomers. Generations collide, colors mix, styles tilt – sometimes raw, sometimes poetic, always alert. This is not a non-committal hit parade, but a living snapshot of what sounds here and now.Mon 9 Nov · 20:00–21:30Muziekcentrum De Bijloke Gent · Ghentfrom €10
MusicBIMDEK - Matthysen, Mosuse and Van BallaertWhat does Bimdek mean? Googling doesn't help us any further. The most accurate description is: Bimdek is a word from a language that consists of only one word, namely the word Bimdek. You can translate it as 'Theatertour van Matthysen, Mosuse and Van Ballaert'.
What can we expect? There will be deep digging again into the rich repertoire of Hugo, of course there are also new songs in it and certainly also a song in the language from which the word Bimdek originates.
In between, the necessary meaningful nonsense will be told, so that the deep emotion can occasionally give way to cheerful bewilderment, thereby immediately pampering the mental balance of the audience. About the creators: Aram Van Ballaert and Ronny Mosuse are two musical top talents. And also Hugo Matthysen is doing his strung best.Tue 10 Nov · 19:30–21:00Kunstencentrum VIERNULVIER · Ghentfrom €35
MusicHealth - support: VowwsA visceral night of industrial catharsis and maximalist 'sad bangers', in which the crushing noise of HEALTH and the icy death-pop of VOWWS merge into a ritual for the end times. On November 10, the American industrial powerhouse HEALTH descends upon De Vooruit for an evening of sonic surrender. The band is coming to Ghent in the wake of their acclaimed new album CONFLICT DLC. On this release, the trio refines their signature hybrid of crushing industrial metal and icy electronics into what they describe as "sad bangers for the end times." In a world that is becoming increasingly absurd, the music of HEALTH no longer feels like a dystopia, but like a much-needed, rational response to reality. The band creates a sonic mirror for modern chaos. A show by HEALTH is not an ordinary concert, but a visceral ritual where noise and catharsis go hand in hand. The evening will be opened by the duo VOWWS. With their self-proclaimed "death-pop," they create a world in which mystery and darkness prevail. Their sound, supported by greats like Chino Moreno and Gary Numan, floats between terrifying grooves and dreamy soundscapes. For fans of Nine Inch Nails, Carpenter Brut, Deftones.Tue 10 Nov · 20:30–23:15Kunstencentrum VIERNULVIER · Ghent
MusicHEALTHOn November 10, the American industrial powerhouse HEALTH descends upon De Vooruit for an evening of sonic surrender. The band is coming to Ghent in the wake of their acclaimed new album CONFLICT DLC. On this release, the trio refines their signature hybrid of crushing industrial metal and icy electronics into what they describe as "sad bangers for the end times." In a world that is becoming increasingly absurd, the music of HEALTH no longer feels like a dystopia, but like a much-needed, rational response to reality. The band creates a sonic mirror for modern chaos. A show by HEALTH is not an ordinary concert, but a visceral ritual where noise and catharsis go hand in hand. ••• The evening will be opened by the duo VOWWS. With their self-proclaimed "death-pop," they create a world in which mystery and darkness prevail. Their sound, supported by greats like Chino Moreno and Gary Numan, floats between terrifying grooves and dreamy soundscapes. For fans of Nine Inch Nails, Carpenter Brut, Deftones.Tue 10 Nov · 20:30Vooruit (concertzaal) · Ghentfrom €30
MusicTears into Light - Sofie Vanden Eynde & Imago MundiJohn Dowland meets Armenian mourning music in this love letter to melancholy
You have to dare it: composer Vladimir Gorlinsky got to work with John Dowlands ‘Lachrimae’ and wove the Elizabethan pearl with Armenian traditional music. Result: an enchanting amalgam in which lute, duduk, and electronics meet. The stories come from conversations with residents of residential care centers and get a voice in new texts by Fleur Pierets and Sufi poetry. Melancholy as a space for reflection: a performance that does not ward off the darkness, but approaches it as a lover.Wed 11 Nov · 20:00–22:00Muziekcentrum De Bijloke Gent · Ghentfrom €10
MusicTiny Tunes: ÃoSongs from sunny climes In Portuguese, a ‘Malandra’ is a mischievous heroine who dares to explore and play. Singer Brenda Corijn has a touch of that about her. Drawing on her Mozambican-Portuguese roots and her warm voice, she has crafted songs full of electric sparks, soft guitars and rhythms that rock like the sea. During this concert, anything goes: being soft and loud, dreaming quietly and moving together. Ão Brenda Corijn (zang), Siebe Chau (gitaar), Jolan Decaestecker (elektronica), Bert Peyffers (percussie),Thu 12 Nov · 17:30–18:15Ha Concerts · Ghentfrom €22
MusicStef Bos - Solo TourStef Bos plays as in recent years
Two months solo in the autumn
In Belgi and Nederland
Een journey through his repertoire
Chosen by the audience
Request numbers can be requested via the website
This is how he plays
Een Bloemlezing
Die every evening is different
The audience can submit request numbers before the performance via https://www.stefbos.nl/verzoeknummer/Thu 12 Nov · 20:00–22:00Kunstencentrum VIERNULVIER · Ghentfrom €35
MusicMomoko Gill - support tbcMomoko Gill comes to present her acclaimed debut 'Momoko' in the Balzaal van De Vooruit
Momoko Gill has long been one of the best-kept secrets of the British electronic and jazz scene. As a self-taught drummer, producer, songwriter, and singer, she has left her unique mark on collaborations with Alabaster DePlume, Matthew Herbert, Coby Sey, Tirzah, and Nadeem Din-Gabisi (her musical counterpart in An Alien Called Harmony). By touring extensively behind the drum kit, keyboards, and microphone, she has sharpened her instinct for composition and production.
The debut album 'Momoko' sounds extraordinarily mature for a first record. Throughout, the stylistic influences of jazz musicians as well as singer-songwriters, experimental artists, and electronic producers can be heard, but Gill rejects imitation and shapes her unique sound based on feeling and expression rather than tradition. Gill lives in London and grew up in Japan and the US. She incorporates her broad perspective into her musical ideas and stories, with a unique voice she has developed from her instinct, collaborations, and self-study.
The eleven tracks on the album represent a broad spectrum: the jazz-infused groove of 'No Others' and the harmony-infused, reflective 'Heavy' stand in contrast to the dark, confrontational sound of 'Shadowboxing', which transitions into an eerie, unconventional instrumental beat, 'Test A Small Area', and the impressive 50-piece choir on 'When Palestine Is Free' (featuring greats such as Shabaka Hutchings, Soweto Kinch, Alabaster DePlume, Coby Sey, Marysia Osu, and others). It is a highly personal and poetic recording that showcases the full, uncompromising range of Momoko's vision, presented in her own voice.Fri 13 Nov · 19:30–22:45Kunstencentrum VIERNULVIER · GhentFree
MusicSound journey 'Pure'Let yourself be carried away on an inner journey of deep relaxation and healing with the sound journey Pure. In a unique setting, we provide you with a unique experience. Carefully composed to calm the mind and bring the body into balance, you are enveloped by the healing vibrations of singing bowls, the serene tones of the handpan, and other powerful instruments. One by one in their purity. That is why we work during this concert occasionally with... silence. Because what is purer than the power of silence? This sound journey is an invitation to return to yourself, to create space for rest and renewed energy. During the sound journey, every vibration will support you in releasing tension and restoring your natural rhythm. This experience offers a moment of pure silence amidst the hustle and bustle of daily life, a space in which you can rediscover yourself. Let yourself be carried away and feel the vibrations that point the way to your own source of strength and rest. The sounds will guide you, the silence will embrace you. Don't forget to bring your lying mat, as well as a blanket and a pillow. This way you can enjoy your musical journey to the maximum in all comfort. Biografie Andy Vanbeveren is passionate about music and its effects on humans. What once started with singing bowls and gongs has since grown into a collection of more than 350 instruments. Native American Flute, didgeridoo, handpan, tongue drum, all kinds of percussion and drums, numerous string instruments, piano, and many other world instruments belong to his unique collection. He completed various training courses at home and abroad and was able to learn from many great 'masters' in their field such as Hans de Back (singing bowls), Shree Krishna Shahi and Santa Ratna Shakya (singing bowls), Don Conreaux (gongs), Michael Telepary (Native American Flute), Nestor Kornblum (overtone singing),... Since 2010, he has had more than 1000 concerts to his name. Not only throughout Flanders, but also in the Netherlands. He played at, among others, Tomorrowland, the Japanese garden in Hasselt, Casino van Blankenberge, numerous cultural centers, churches, etc. He is known for his lasting innovations in sound combinations. A passion that he has also learned to interpret via live looping. In the past, he played together with other musicians such as Tylaine Van den Broeck (piano), Gilbert Isbin (lute), John Snauwaert (sax), Michael Telapary (American Native Flute), Nicolas Mortelmans (sitar), Hari Paudjal (bansuri flute), Hélène Philippart (bansuri flute and transverse flute), Manish Pingle (slide guitar), Catherine Maes (mezzo-soprano), Bart Gits (taiko), Kees Kort (shakuhachi), Aki Vergels-Sato (koto), Cantavita (overtone singing), etc. In addition, he has already accompanied numerous yoga sessions, meditation, team buildings, festivals, Ecstatic Dance, etc.Fri 13 Nov · 19:30–21:00Sint-Coletakerk · Ghentfrom €45
MusicSofie Lemaire — Sofie doesn't make it upIn this theater special, Sofie Lemaire dives deep between the folds of time to pry loose some forgotten, stuck, silly figures from the margins and introduce them to you. The result is a beautiful parade of strange ancestors, each of whom shines in their own way in being a bit silly. Because: nothing is as pure and sincere as only half succeeding in something. From the pudding porridge of Willem de Veroveraar, to the life-saving left of Peter Tsjaikovski, to the Massief Monsterverbond van Misnoegde Romeinse Madammen… Sofie presents her endearing study of human folly. Using her club of less impressive figures, she shows how moving and invigorating a look at the past can be.Fri 13 Nov · 20:00–21:30De Vooruit Gent · Ghentfrom €27+1 more date
MusicFred Wesley GenerationsA legendary funk voice with a touch of soul jazz The American trombonist Fred Wesley has built up an impressive track record, including his years in the bands of James Brown and George Clinton’s Parliament-Funkadelic. His powerful sense of funk is legendary. In a trio setting, he explores a shared love for the soulful jazz tradition of Hammond icon Jimmy Smith. Fred Wesley is one of the most influential trombonists in black music; generations of up-and-coming talent study his classic albums and playing. What began as a tribute has grown into a tight-knit trio with a distinct groove and strong mutual interaction. Their repertoire draws on classic organ jazz, underpinned by experience, timing and swing. For fans of vintage soul-funk in the style of George Clinton, James Brown and Lonnie Smith Generations Fred Wesley (trombone), Leonardo Corradi (organ), Tony Match (drums) Preview - Re:Context Music is inextricably linked to broader cultural trends. The Re:Context series explores the ideas, influences and context that have given rise to beautiful music. Each instalment offers a different deep dive into a specific theme, genre or the life of a particular artist. As part of this Re:Context, Fred Wesley will be interviewed before the concert by the Belgian trombonist Nabou Claerhout.,Sat 14 Nov · 20:15–23:00Ha Concerts · Ghentfrom €26
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