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| Le Guess Who? Festival 2025. Foto: Tim van Veen |
Now into it’s 19th year, Le Guess Who? (LGW?) is a major international music and arts festival occuring annually in Utrecht, a metropolitan hub of the Netherlands with a picturesque walled city at its core.
From the outset, surveying the festival program was mind boggling. With too many artists to count performing over twenty venues and programmed across overlapping streams—when planning my visit I was already flummoxed! A founding premise of LGW? is that each night features a mystery concert from an unannounced artist, so I planned to at least attend these. Another feature of the festival is that it invites artists to curate a stream. This year’s guest curators were visual artist and musician Lonnie Holley; jazz drummer and scholar Asher Gamedze; percussionist and composer Valentina Magaletti; performance and multimedia artist Tianzhuo Chen; musician, broadcaster and community organiser Amirtha Kidambi; DJ and curator Edna Martinez; dance music producer gyrofield and experimental club music producer and performer Zíur. The festival also invited three “Community Curators” to devise its U? stream that foregrounds local artists, spaces an issues: Aslıhan, Luna van der Laan and Al-Shaheen Falcon. Needless to say, it was impossible to cover the whole festival and while preparing to submit this review some weeks after the festival, I was still combing through the program, listening and learning about artists I missed.
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