Couleur Café Festival 2016 is a yearly urban contemporary music festival in Belgium, organised since 1990 and taking place at Tour & Taxis in the city of Brussels around the end of June or early July. 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.
Couleur Café Festival 2016 is the largest urban and reggae festival in Belgium.
Hip-hop, soul, funk, reggae, dub, ska and latin music are all represented by household names and newcomers alike, across three days and three stages at Brussels' Tour & Taxis centre.
Well into its third decade of contemporary carnivals, Couleur Café is known for its great food and even better bars – the famous Mamafoufou has been joined by loads more bar/club venues that get every bit as pumping as the stages themselves.
Artists of the calibre of Faithless, Jimmy Cliff, Wu-Tang Clan and Busta Rhymes have all been part of the fun over the last few years, and it doesn't seem like Couleur Café will be letting up any time soon.
Location-
Tour & Taxis
Rue Picard 3
1000 Brussels
Belgium
Tour & Taxis is a confusingly named, but culturally vibrant exhibition and multimedia centre in Brussels. A large warehouse is complimented by a large outdoor space, accommodating multiple stages and plenty of extra-curricular sights.
Line Up-
Chic feat Nile Rodgers, Chronixx, Magic System, Method Man & Redman, Selah Sue, Ibeyi, Kwabs, Mr. Vegas, Oxmo Puccino, Brigitte, Akua Naru, St. Paul & the Broken Bones, Quantic, G.A.N, Woodie Smalls, Pomrad, Roméo Elvis & Le Motel, LTGL, Bafana, Boochie, Karawane, Onda Sonora, Tomaz, Claptone, Youssou N'Dour, De La Soul, Goran Bregovic & Wedding and Funeral Orchestra, Arno, Ghinzu, Morgan Heritage, Julian Marley, Cunninlynguists, Jamie Woon, Julian Marley, Hudson Mohawke, Elito Reve y Su Charangon, Alpha Wann, Atomic Spliff, Clap! Clap!, Champion Sound, Chicos Y Mendez, DJ Vega, Goodfellaz Sound System, Kel Assouf, Mr. Leenknecht, Young Fathers, Soul Shakers ft. MC Mota, Bunny Wailer, Black Box Revelation, Nneka, Soprano, Protoje, De Jeugd van Tegenwoordig, Trixie Whitley, Apollo Brown & Guilty Simpson, Féfé, Bomba Estereo, Jeremy Loops, Raging Fyah, Pat Thomas & Kwashibu Area Band, GrandGeorge, Inna Modja, MHD, DJ Kwak, DJ Reedoo, Dub Front Association, Groovalicious DJs, Kassav', Niveau4, Omar Souleyman, Supafly Collective, TLP
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