Couleur Café
Couleur Café Festival Festival Couleur Café | |
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Dates | End of June/early July |
Location(s) | Brussels, Belgium |
Years active | 1990 - 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:
- 1990: Mamady Keita, Papa Wemba, Zap Mama
- 1991: Mory Kanté
- 1992: The Wailers
- 1995: Koffi Olomide, Terence Trent D'Arby
- 1996: Noa, The Believers
- 1997: Youssou N’Dour, Ziggy Marley
- 1998:
- 1999: Cheb Mami, Faudel, Femi Kuti, Krewcial, P18, Zap Mama
- 2000: The Wailers, Youssou N'Dour
- 2001: Baaba Maal, Burning Spear, Carlinhos Brown, Culture, Khaled, Ozomatli, Starflam, Zuco 103
- 2002: Cesaria Evora, Daniela Mercury, Horace Andy, Mory Kanté, Orishas, P18, Sizzla, Wawadadakwa, Zuco 103
- 2003: Kana, Mad Professor, Ojos De Brujo
- 2004: Amparanoia, Ska-P, Souad Massi, Babylon Circus, Amp Fiddler, Gabriel Ríos, Starflam
- 2005:
- 2006: Amparanoia, Burning Spear, Cali, Gabriel Ríos, George Clinton, Gilberto Gil, Ivete Sangalo, James Brown, Louise Attaque, Off The Record, Patrick Watson, Saïan Supa Crew, Think Of One, Third World, Toumani Diabaté, Tracy Chapman, Vive la Fête, Fab Faya
- 2007: Dj Mehdi, Gotan Project, Kelis, Puggy, Sean Paul, The Roots, The Tellers, Ziggy Marley, Johnny Clegg
- 2008: Zucchero
- 2009: Mamady Keita, Oi Va Voi, Ozomatli, Rohff, Selah Sue, Shameboy, Solomon Burke, The Skatalites, Zap Mama
- 2010: 1060, Diam's, Ebony Bones, Femi Kuti, George Clinton, Hindi Zahra, Papa Wemba, Rox, Scylla, Selah Sue, Snoop Dogg, Soprano, Staff Benda Bilili
- 2011: Absynthe Minded, Alborosie, Arsenal, DJ Shadow, Merdan Taplak, Seal, Selah Sue, Yael Naim, Ziggy Marley, Ziggi Recado
- 2012: Public Enemy, Gogol Bordello
- 2013:
- 2014: (planned[Gabriel Rios, John Butler Trio, Ky-Mani Marley, Youssoupha, Protoje & The Indiggnation, Danakil, The Soul Rebels, Suarez, Little Collin
- 2015:
- 2016: Quantic, Raging Fyah, Roméo Elvis & Le Motel, Selah Sue, Soprano, St Paul and the Broken Bones, Trixie Whitley, Woodie Smalls, Young Fathers, Youssou N'Dour
2017
Red Stage | Green Stage | Blue Stage | Elektropedia Black Stage | |
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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 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 | |
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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 |
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Saturday 30 June | Chronixx Residente |
Gregory Porter Akua Naru Temetan Leon Bridges Underachievers |
Alia Niveau4 El Caribe Funk Tank & The Bangas Juicy De palenque a matonge |
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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 | |
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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 |
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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 |
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Sunday 30 June | Ms. 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
- ^ lbo (29 Jun 2014). "Derde en zonnigste dag Couleur Café trekt 22.000 festivalgangers". Het Nieuwsblad. Retrieved 6 Sep 2014.
- HUMO. 7 May 2013.
- ^ gjs (12 Mar 2013). "MUZIEK. Faithless komt naar Couleur Café". De Standaard.