Thu 30 June > Rebel Up! LeBlanc @ Café Congé goes Caribbean, Elzenhof, Ixelles Bxl *FREE IN!*

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Café Congé again! that means the garden of Elzenhof will be changed into a summer bar with party in a certain theme. On this 1st night, they will go Caribbean. With loungegarden, kid activities, concerts and DJ’s in the garden, cocktailbar and food, dance workshop, visuals and more. In collaboration with Rebel Up! DJ’s, MI-Casting, Brede School and Bib Sans Souci. *FREE IN!*

Programme >

15:00-18:00 Loungegarden & kids animation & Silver Canary Soundsystem
15:30-17u30 Latino kids animation by Multicolor ASBL
17u30 Latino dance initiation for kids
18:30 Modeshow MI-Casting + dansinitiatie
18u50 Dance initiation for adults by Yamilet (Cuba)
19:30 concert Turikumwe (traditionele cumbia)
20:30 concert The Concrete Coconuts (calypso)
22:00 DJ’s Rebel Up! & Drache Musicale (Radio Panik)

++ Visuals, Caribbean food & cocktailbar ++
*FREE IN!*

more info > FB event or Elzenhof site.

@ Elzenhof
kroonlaan 12 Av. Couronne
1050, Ixelles

Sun 7 June > Rebel Up! @ Matong@ Europe festival, Foot Piknic, Parc Leopold, Ixelles Bxl

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The Matongé-Europe Festival is back, with Foot Piknic on 7 June: a football match with a culinary dimension in parc Léopold, organised by Kuumba and C.I.E. Transitscape.
From 10 am to 8 pm, eight mixed and intercultural teams will challenge each other in the mini-football tournament on the sports ground in parc Léopold. At the same time there will be a family picnic and Rebel Up! dj SebCat will provide the necessary sunny tunes from Africa and further around the world. Sunday promises to be a nice hot day too, so bring your tastiest picnic and come to relax or play!

Foot Piknic aims to bring together residents, workers and users of the Matongé neighbourhood and the European quarter, as also happened at the Matongé-Europe Festival. Enrol here as a volunteer or footballer : info@kuumba.be

and afterwards at 21:00 in Kuumba, we all go watch the friendly football game between France & Belgium!

All info, check with Kuumba or see the FB event.

Thu 21 Aug > Café Congé goes Congo @ Elzenhof, Elsene/Ixelles Bxl

 

hey folks,

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Elzenhof,  Kuumba & Rebel Up! present:

this thursday a special Congolese afternoon/evening at the garden of the Elzenhof cummunity centre in Elsene/Ixelles, next to Matongé area.
we´ll be playing from the afternoon and just after midnight, also live concert by local Congolese rumba soukous band Color Rumba and other dj friends + other activities and workshops too, FREE IN!

from 15h music in the garden
16h creative workshop for children
15h – 19h00 Rebel Up! DJ´s (chill african tunes)
19h00 – 20h30 DJ Planet Ilunga (Congolese sounds from the 50’s & 60’s)
17h & 19h workshop Congolese dance
20u30 live concert Yan Koy & Color Rumba (rumba & soukous, Kinshasa/Brussels)
22h00 – 23h30 Dj DocDaddy (RDC/BE) (modern african dance tunes)
23h30 – end Rebel Up! DJ’s  ( african & global dance tunes)

+ cocktail bar & Congolese dishes

Just come and join in, FREE IN!!!

Facebook event here, more info on Elzenhof site

@GC Elzenhof
Kroonlaan 14 Avenue Couronne
1050 Elsene/Ixelles

and in the meantime, check out our amazing Acholi Folk Pop mixtape, made by Rebel Up! LeBlanc.
Acholi is the freshest digital dance (and wedding) music from Northern Uganda where traditional styles collide with modern electronic studio production. Nobody knows these sounds yet, so be lucky. Seriously good and refreshing 🙂

Acholi folk pop by Rebel Up! on Mixcloud

 

 

Rebel Up! @ Café Congé, GC Elzenhof, Elsene/Ixelles 1050

Hello Brussels!

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During the whole month of august, there are free musical evenings in the garden of the Elzenhof.
On Thu 22 august, Rebel Up! & Radio Campus host an evening with all kinda eclectic and global sounds by the Campus & Rebel Up! dj´s.

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but also a live concert by local Brussels band Orch TP Jean Mikili!
This trio from Brussels specialises in Congolese rumba with fresh indierock while keeping it real for all to swing and shuffle to. It’s gonna be *Tout Puissant* for sure!

Here more info on the happening on the GC Elzenhof site.
and FB event here.

from 18h – midnight
@ GC Elzenhof,
Rue Couronne/Kroonlaan 12

Tue 19 + Wed 20 March: 2 concerts of Manou Gallo & Women Band (ex-Zap Mama) @ Mercelis Theater, Elsene/Ixelles

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The musical week already starts early.  Ivorian singer Manou Gallo & her Women Band will be playing 2 nights in a row in the Mercelis Theater, Elsene/Ixelles, hosted by KultuurKaffee as part of the KK World nights. Manou Gallo started her career with Belgian afro-funk band Zap Mama and since a few years she has embarked on her own project where she mixes various Western African styles together in a full modern female sound. More info and sounds can be found on her personal website.

On both nights we’re doing some Rebel Up! support before & after the show with some special african sounds of all things folky and slow swinging, Sebcat will spin on Tuesday and Leblanc on Wednesday evening.

IMPORTANT; Wednesday 20th is already sold out, but there are still tickets left for the concert on Tuesday 19th, so be quick if you like to be there!  Presale is just 10€.

Doors open at 20h, concert starts at 21h. See flyer above or KK site for all info.

sat. 4th of June – Rebel Up! dj SebCat @ VSO charity party at L’Amour Fou, Elsene/Ixelles, BXL

Ahoy. bit of a last minute gig in Brussels this saturday

dj SebCat will play some globally inspired tunes at a VSO charity party @ cafe L’Amour Fou from around 22 or 22:30.

Come along if you like to swing for the good cause. There will also be all kinds of food on offer.

It’s 10€ in, but all money goes to the charity.
(or if you want, mail us for guestlist, though places are limited)

address;
Elsense steenweg 185 Chaussée d’Ixelles, 1050, Bxl
from 21:00 till late