Double concert Ward Dhoore - Andries Boone Sextet

There are evenings when music momentarily detaches you from yourself. When you are sitting in a hall and suddenly notice that your breath falls differently, that thoughts become looser, that you are taken to another place. Outsiders is made for those evenings. Ward Dhoore is a multi-instrumentalist, composer, and storyteller. After 15 years of touring through Europe, America, and Canada with diverse projects, a wider and international audience got to know him through his solo debut album ‘It Was All Heart’, which was selected for, among others, the German Critics Award and the World Music Charts Europe. His artistic growth did not go unnoticed in his own country either: Radio Klara selected him for the series De Twintigers. And yet, anyone who has seen Ward on stage knows that his strength is not in recognition, but mainly in the connection he makes with the people in the hall. In his new album ‘Outsiders’ (January 2027), that connection remains central. An album for each of us who sometimes feels vulnerable, lonely, or an outsider and is looking for what holds us together despite everything. Instrumental music and narrative linking texts alternate in a concert that feels like a confidential conversation. Cinematic soundtracks that belong in a world without borders. An invitation to listen, to dream, and to briefly stand still at what is moving out there. Andries Boone belongs to the musicians who helped shape Flemish folk of the past fifteen years. Both with the mandolin quartet MANdolinMAN and with his solo trilogy ‘C.O.L.O.R.S’ (2019), ‘T.I.M.E.L.A.P.S.E’ (2021), and ‘C.O.N.V.E.R.S.A.T.I.O.N.S’ (2023), he created surprising, eclectic, and experimental albums that effortlessly transcended the boundaries of folk and were met with broad acclaim from the press and radio. In September 2026, his new album, ‘Rhagium Inquisitor’, will be released. The title ‘Rhagium Inquisitor’ refers to the grey longhorn beetle, a small beetle that lives under layers of bark of dead conifers and symbolizes the layered sound world of the new album. The sound of ‘Raghium Inquisitor’ is inspired by Scandinavian and Breton folk music and the hunting horn tradition, but also by electronic music of the 80s (including Depeche Mode) and dance and trance influences from the 90s. On this album, Boone merges acoustic and electronic worlds and brings together old and new musical traditions. Traditional instruments like violin, octave violin, mandolin, nyckelharpa, Hardanger fiddle, and baroque musette meet the sounds of rock, modern chamber music, and electronics. Synths and sequencers form an integral part of Boone's layered and immersive sound universe. Boone played most of the instruments himself, but also worked with two young talents: Marieke Van Ransbeeck (bagpipes, baroque musette, Swedish säckpipa) and Oscar Beerten (violin, octave violin, Norwegian Hardanger fiddle). Both young musicians possess a Nordic Master in Folk Music and stand with both feet in the Scandinavian tradition. With ‘Raghium Inquisitor’, Andries Boone again explores the border areas between tradition and innovation. This album confirms his place as one of the most inventive voices within contemporary folk.