Couleur Café
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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.
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Genre | Funk Hip hop Reggae Dance Soul Blues Rock |
Dates | End of June/early July |
Location(s) | 1990-1993 Hallen van Schaarbeek 1994-2016 Thurn en Taxis 2017- Ossegempark Brussel |
Years active | 1990 - 2020, 2022 - present |
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]