SONIC CITY 2026

Sonic City Festival is an alternative 3-day music fest in Kortrijk, Belgium where eclecticisim is key and discovery is imminent. The Sonic City concept is clear and simple: curators are appointed and receive all the artistic freedom to select and handpick the line-up.The goal of the festival is to treat those music lovers that surf right beneath the mainstream to a weekend where discovery, mix-ups and musical eclecticism are key. Sonic City is a place where small, emerging bands share the stage with bigger ones, where genres and subgenres melt together into one coherent entity. And this is exactly what makes Sonic City special: it's not a rock festival, it's not a free jazz festival, it's not an electronic festival. But it very well could be. By selecting the right curator - a band, an artist, a DJ with a clear open-mindedness towards musical diversity - Sonic City can be anything. But above all, the festival exhibits the vision of the curator(s) on the contemporary music scene.Curated by Dirty Three: Alex Rex, Bleak Squad, Caroline No, Charles Hayward, Christina Carter, Dirty Three, Jess Ribeiro, Maddison Windfarm, Maxine Funke, Zoh AmbaCurated by Marie Davidson: .618, Curses LIVE, Feu St-Antoine, goat (JP), Leo Vincent, Lord Spikeheart, Marie Davidson LIVE with Nick Verstand, Natasha Pirard, Paranoid LondonCurated by Sonic City: Anna von Hausswolff, Billy Fuller, DIIV, Dry Cleaning, Elias Rønnenfelt, Juana Molina, keiyaA, Loma, Louis Ottley, Mandy, Indiana, Melt-Banana, Pigeon, PISS, PVA, Rosie Stuart, The Kind