Folk Dranouter Festival

News 10th May - LINE UP AND STAGES ONLINE!

Check out the line up tab above for details about who's scheduled to play and on which day!
 

2012 LINE UP

Thursday 02/08
Palace stage
W. Victor, Fiddler's Green

Friday 03/08
Kayam Stage
The Imagined Village, Goran Bregovic & The Wedding and Funeral band, Absynthe Minded, Seasick Steve, Palace, Barefoot & The Shoes, Surpluz, Epsylon

ClubTent
Tref, Spinvis, Bellowhead

Saturday 04/08
Kayam Stage
The Ukulele Orchestra of Great Britain, Het Zesde Metaal, Kadril, School is Cool, Balkan Beat Box

Palace Stage
Peut-être demain, Nomad Swing & The Dipsy Doodles, Wallis Bird, Gravel Unit

Club Tent
MandolinMan, Adam Cohen, Boy & Bear, Blaudzun, Chapelier Fou

Sunday 05/08
Kayam Stage
The Walkabouts, Donavon Frankenreiter, The Waterboys

Palace Stage
Senne Guns

Club Tent
Faran Flad, Lieven Tavernier & White Velvet, The Delta Saints, Ane Brun

 

ABOUT THE FOLK DRANOUTER FESTVIAL

Created in 1975 by the people of the youth club "De Zon", the first festival showed eight groups on one day with the Albion Morris Men as headliners, and had some 300 visitors. By 1977, the festival had specialized in folk music and got some 1,000 visitors. After a few more years of growth, the festival reached a stable audience of three- to five thousand visitors throughout the 1980s.

From the end of the 1980s on, the festival started programming other genres like world music (with Miriam Makeba in 1989) and singer-songwriters (with Billy Bragg in 1988), and included some more well-known names. The audience increased to some 45,000 people in 1995 and 65,000 in 1997.

In 1997 and 1998, Dranouter won the ZAMU award for best musical event.

Folk Dranouter Festival Line Up - 2011
Band of Gypsies: Taraf de Haidouks & Koçani Orkestar, The Magic Numbers, Kayam Stage
Zule Max, Guidewires, Grant Lee Buffalo, Rodrigo y Gabriela, Mercedes Peon band, Sons of Noel and Adrian, An Pierlé & White Velvet, Salvatore Adamo, BEN HARPER, Flanders Ethno, Adrian Edmondson and the Bad Shepperds, Zjef Vanuytsel, I Am Kloot, zocio Marquez, Mercedes Peon Solo