Sat 25 April > Rebel Up! SebCat @ Balkan Trafik, BOZAR Bxl + Foton party @ Beursschouwburg

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This weekend is the Balkan Trafik festival again in BOZAR museum in Brussels, 9th edition already!

On saturday, Rebel Up! SebCat will play a few listening sets in the big Horta hall between the shows of Bosnian folk-jazz group Divanhana, Kosovarian-Turkish singer Suzan Kardes and Greek singer Katerina Tsiridou & Fanouris Trikilis Rembetiko Project. Expect sounds of slavic folklore, balkan beauties, old greek rembetiko vinyls, Turkish spheres and other vintage sounds from beyond the eastern hills.

See the full lineup & info on the Balkan Trafik site.

Get in the mood with this vintage Rebetika mix from 2 years ago >

Rebetika: rough blues & hard times from the Greek peninsula 1922-2012…. mixtape by Rebel Up! on Mixcloud

and oh, supertip for saturday night > our friends of Foton organise a nice experimental global/electro night in Beursschouwburg with our good friends Lowdjo and Filastine playing too. Free in, so be there. All info here

Sun & Mon 31 Nov/ 1 dec > 24h Music manifestation: Touche Pas A Mon Jeu De Balle! Action callout!

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ahoy folks,

Brussels callout for action!

No to a car park under the place du Jeu de Balle! 

The city of Brussels has recently decided to build four new underground car parks in the city center (Nouveau Marché aux Grains, Yser, place Rouppe and place du Jeu de Balle), linked by a „mini-ring“. This project is not based on any study and does not respond to any needs: in the numerous car parks in the city center, 6000 to 7500 parking spaces are not occupied. Such a projet, if realised, will disfigure several squares and places in Brussels, create additional traffic in neighbourhoods already congested and will cause years of suffering for the population of Brussels due to construction work.

We are merchants, shopkeepers, residents of the Marolles and all of Brussels, lovers of this neighbourhood and consumersatits fleamarket. We opposethe construction of this unnecessary car park under the place du Jeu de Balle with all our forces. Its realisation would have horrendous consequences for the fleamarket, the local businesses, the residents and for the existing diversity of this neighbourhood. Instead ofanother big construction site, the place du Jeu de Balle and its historic underground deserve to be classified. Unparalleled in the world, the fleamarket, which takes place regularly since 1873, and the resulting activities in its surroundings, constitute an economic, social and cultural heritage to be saved by all means possible.

www.plateforme-marolles.be
and sign the petition here!

here the lineup of Brussels underground musicians, artists & dj’s >

AYMERIC DE TAPOL (Fr)/DJ SET • REBEL UP! SEBCAT(Be)/DJ SET • BART JOHNSTON (Eng)/Painting act • BOUDIN ET CHANSONS (Fr)/LIVE • BRNS (Be)/DJ SET • BLONDY BROWNIE (Be)/LIVE • CHAZAM (Fr)/LIVE • CLARE LOUISE (Fr)/LIVE • CLEMENT NOURRY (Joy As a Toy) (Be)/LIVE • COFFEE OR NOT (Be)/LIVE • LE PACIFIQUE RECORDS (Be)/LIVE • ELECTRODISTORSION (Be)/LIVE • ELZO DURT (Be)/DJ SET • FABIOLA (Be)/LIVE • FRAN- COIZ BREUT (Fr)/LIVE • HE DIED WHILE HUNTING (Be)/LIVE • JEAN DL (Be)/LIVE • JEAN MIKILI (Be)/LIVE • LAWRENCE LE DOUX (Be)/LIVE • LESTER LEWITT (Be)/DJ SET • LE TON MITE (Us)/LIVE • MARIE WARNANT (Be)/LIVE • MATTHIEU HA (Be)/LIVE • MELANIE DE BIASIO (Be)/DJ SET • MONIQUE SONIQUE (Be)/LIVE • MOUNTAIN BIKE (Be)/LIVE • NASTY BARTENDER (Be)/DJ SET • NERVOUS SHAKE (Be)/DJ SET • NICOLAS MICHAUX (Be)/LIVE • NIKO RIPIT (Fr)/DJ SET • ODIEU (Be)/LIVE • PAON (Be)/LIVE • PATTON (Be)/LIVE • PAVES (Jean Philippe de Gheest + Rodolphe Coster)/LIVE • QUIET STARS (Be)/DJ SET • ROBBING MILLIONS (Be)/DJ SET • RODOLPHE COSTER (Be)/LIVE • SAMUEL SPANIEL (Be)/LIVE • SCARLATTI GOES ELECTRO (Fr)/LIVE • SOU- MAYA FELINE (Be)/DJ SET • SPOOKHUISJE (Be)/Live Concert • SYLVAIN CHAUVEAU (Fr)/ LIVE • TAPE TUM (Be)/LIVE • TEUK HENRI + JEF MERCELIS(Be)/LIVE • VAL MACE (Fr)/LIVE • VINCENT SATAN (BE)/DJ SET • LES VEDETTES (Be)/LIVE • FRITUUR (BE)/Live

Rebel Up! will be playing tunes deep into the night (or early monday morning, however you see it) from 5h30 – 6am.

FB event here
The full lineup schedule>
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Fri 21 Nov > Rebel Up! @ Le Guess Who Festival in RASA, Utrecht w/ Ogoya Nengo & Dodo Women’s Group (KY) + uKanDanZ (FR/ET)

This friday playing at Le Guess Who? festival in RASA world music venue, check their fingerlicking good lineup, just awesome and many of our friends playing too!
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Ogoya Nengo will do one of her first performances outside of Kenya. Born in the 1930s in a small village at the shores of Lake Victoria, she soon joined the socially critical Dodo singers, a genre and community which is in danger of vanishing. Ogoya became the rave of her time, singing to great chiefs, warriors and even colonial officers and missionaries. Despite Ogoya being a legendary Kenyan folk artist with a career spanning over three decades little people outside Kenya have had the chance of ever hearing her and her ensemble.

Inspired by traditional Ethiopian songs, uKanDanZ is an explosive musical hybrid of styles which, as the name suggests, are made to dance to. With guitar, bass, drums and tenor sax they occupy a vibrant place somewhere between rock, improvised jazz, noise and Ethiogroove. Front and centre is charismatic vocalist Asnake Guebreyes from Addis Abeba, chanting Ethiopian soul melodies that transcends the highly energetic music to unheard places. They deliberately cross all traditional musical borders, creating something new and unique while at the same time staying true to the origins of the genres they magically melt into one.

as always our Rebel Up! sounds will be in African, Latino, Caribbean, Arabic and Asian global spheres, tripping around the world in unknown sounds to make you bounce.

timings>
doors 20:30 – Rebel Up! Soundclash dj’s
21.30-22.45 The Kenya Sessions with Sven Kacirek and Ogoya Nengo & Dodo Women Group
22:45–23:15 Rebel-up! Soundclash dj’s
23:15- 0:15 uKanDanz
0:15 – 2:00 (or 3:00) Rebel Up! Soundclash

@ Rasa
Pauwstraat 13, Utrecht
16€

fro all info > check site or FB event

Sat 15 Nov: Eastern Daze Festival @ De Vooruit, Gent (and Rebel Up! SebCat set at end)

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This saturday, there´s the Eastern Daze Festival, organised by KRAAK in De Vooruit, Gent.

Just check the awesome lineup for true lovers of experimental folk & trancedental music
though we can defo recommend Portugese string artist Norberto Lobo and the Moroccan sufi outfit Master Musicians of Jajouka, but all the others will be equally special.

There also will be a vinyl & cassette market from 19:00 onwards with lots of good selections.
And at the end of the night, Rebel Up! SebCat & friends will play some global folk tunes & trancedental sounds for a dance or two

starts at 16:00. tickets for afternoon & evening, 20€ presale, 25€ at door

All info on the Vooruit website.

4 – 7 Sept > Rebel Up! dj’s @ Goulash Disko Festival, Komiza (Vis island) Croatia

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Rebel Up! @ Goulash Disko festiva on the magical Vis island, here we come!!!
such a big lineup, over 70 acts if not more…..non-profit, crowdfunded and all, the way to go.

We’ll be playing a set on the main beach stage on thursday 4 sept at 14:00
and more sets during the following days on the mobile soundsystem & in Komiza bars with all our global music friends

all info on the Goulash Disko site or FB event
See you there!

Thu 24 / Fri 25 July > Rebel Up! SebCat in Espana > Valencia & Cartagena (La Mar de Musicas festival)

The next few days, Rebel Up! SebCat will be touring the eastern coast of Spain, yay!
Shoudl you be around there the next days, do come!

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Tomorrow night, Thu 24 July, SebCat will be playing global/tropical beats in Valencia together with Biano (member of Orxata Sound System) @ Desfas Tropical party in Juanita Club. Doors open at 23:00, Facebook event here.

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Then on Friday 25 july, Sebcat will be playing at the big La Mar de Musicas festival in Cartagena city centre as part of Cassette Connection, which is the international cassette playing project between Awesome Tapes From Africa, DJ K-Sets & SebCat (aka Maj Tahal). After Belgium/Holland this is only our 2nd tour, so lucky Spain!

We’ll be playing at the old Moorish castle overlooking the city & harbour of Cartagena, after the shows of global bands Les Ambassadeurs, the reunited Malian 70’s band of Salif Keita, Amadou Bogayoko & Cheik Tidiane! And also La Yegros (Argentina), a great honour.  In the deep of night between 2:30 – 4:00 we will be playing a fine selection of cassettes from Africa, Middle East and Indian subcontinent.  It sounds something like this!

Cassette Connection tape mixtape by Rebel Up! on Mixcloud

Hope to see you around!

Fri 18 July & Sat 19 July > Rebel Up! SebCat @ Valkhof Festival, Nijmegen (NL) & Welcome To The Village festival, Leeuwarden (NL)

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Rebel Up! SebCat will be busy 2 days touring Netherlands festivals with the Congolese Brussels band Yan Koy & Color Rumba and also dj-ing on the side. Fun fun fun!

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On friday 18 july the fun starts in Nijmegen at the Valkhof festival, when at 21:00h Yan Koy & Color Rumba will play their heavy rumba & soukous sound at De Boog stage. At 22:30 Rebel Up! Sebcat will be playing all kinda vintage, modern & electronic global tunes at De Tuin area untill 1am as closing set of the festival in the park.  The festival is FREE, so just come along!
If you have seen Color Rumba in action at our night in Amsterdam last year or in Rotterdam, you know how wild it can get 🙂

check out this Color Rumba video from their awesome energetic May show in Rotterdam > > > >

here the lineup & timings of De Boog stage >
19:15- 20:00 Villa Zeno
21:00 – 21:50 Yan Koy & Color Rumba
22:45 – 23:30 Fumaca Preta

Tuin stage >
22:30 – 1:00 Rebel Up! Sebcat

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Then Saturday followed by the amazing Welcome To The Village festival in Leeuwarden at Groene Ster nature area, where Color Rumba will warmly shake up all those northern Frysian folks in the afternoon (15:30) at the Blessum stage. SebCat will warm up the crowd with some classic rumba & soukous selections before & after their set. Also good bands like Combinatie XVI and our Ghanaian buddy King Ayisoba and friends of Orchestre Tout Puissant Marcel Duchamps will be playing there, as well as DJ’s Zea + TP OK!

Timings of Blessum stage >
HERREK 14.10 – 14.50
YAN KOI 15.30 – 16.20
COMBINATIE XVI 17.20 – 18.10
ORCHESTRE TPMD 19.00 – 19.50
KING AYISOBA + ZEA 21.00 – 22.00
DJ ZEA + TPOK 22.00 – 01.00

Sad to say, but the 35€ day tickets for saturday are already sold out…..