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

 

 

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

Ahoy,

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…..

Sat. 24 Aug: Rebel Up! Soundclash *Congolese Rumba Special* @ OCCII, A’dam w/ Yan Koy & Kolor Rumba (RDC/BE) & Orch. TP Jean Mikili (BE)

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Yes folks!

finally it’s there after several attempts: our Congolese Rumba Special night on Saturday 24 august.
A whole night filled with marvelous vintage rumba & soukous sounds from Congo!

We’ll have 2 bands playing live on stage to fully lose yourself in this addictive rumba rock sound. Here the roll down > > >

Yan Koy & Kolor Rumba (CO/BE) (on poster)
This Congolese band from Brussels will play vintage Congolese rumba soukous songs from the 60’s to 80’s, led by vocalist Yan Koy along with master members such as Petit Poisson, Pappy Muntu, Alonzo Baba and several others who played in famous Congolese bands such as Franco’s OK Jazz, Zaiko Langa Langa and Ndombe. In a 2 hour live set they will play classic rumba songs and take you into the Congolese underbelly of tropical rock with psychedelic guitar solo’s, hypnotising percussion and polyphonic vocals. Not to be missed!

Orch. TP Jean Mikili (BE)
Belgian trio from Brussels that specialises in Congolese rumba with fresh indierock while keeping it real for all to swing and shuffle along to. It’s gonna be *Tout Puissant* for sure as perfect warm-up to Color Rumba!

Vendredi Tresse, avec l’Orchestre TP Jean Mikili de Bruxelles from Frederic Bourgeois on Vimeo.

dj’s Rebel Up! & friends
swinging African & latino sounds before & after the bands.

Profits on the night will go to Women’s Initiative for Gender Justice, a NGO fighting for the change of mentality for governments that consciously leave open sexual crimes unpunished. For more info about this organization, go to www.iccwomen.org or their twitter account @4GenderJustice.

Doors will already open at 22:00.
As we have 2 bands playing live, it´s 5€ in before 23:00h, but 7€ afterwards, so come early!

Save the date!
Facebook event here

sat 24 august
22:00 – 4:00
@ OCCII, Amsterdam
www.occii.org

Fri 28 June @ Recyclart > HOLIDAYS Cumbia & Soukous party w/ Chancha Via Circuito (AR), Color Rumba (CO/BE) & Rebel Up! + more dj´s

Hey folks,

It´s that good summertime of the year again in Brussels; RECYCLART HOLIDAYS festival is kicking off once more, a much better option than Couleur Cafe, if we must say.
This Friday the 1st party of the festival will be a CUMBIA & SOUKOUS PARTY!!!

The evening rolls like this >

(outdoor dj set, for free)
22:00 > 23:00 CHICO PARANY (AR – dj)
“gypsy cumbia bass”

(then party starts inside the venue, only 5 euros in!)

23:00 > 00:00 CHICO PARANY (AR – dj)

00:00 > 01:00 CHANCHA VIA CIRCUITO (AR – live)
“Andean digital cumbia & folk bass”
http://www.chanchaviacircuito.com/

01:00 > 03:00 YAN KOY & COLOR RUMBA (CG/BE – live)
“The real sound of Congolese rumba & soukous from Matongé, with legendary players like Petit Poisson from Zaïko Langa Langa. On descend!”

03:00 > 04:00 JEAN MIKILI & BRIAN HAINAUT (BE – dj)
“Vinyl selections of Congolese rumba & soukous.”

04:00 > 05:00 REBEL UP! LEBLANC (BE – dj)
“Old & new guitar & folk pop from the African continent.”

+ EXTRAS around/outside the venue:

19:00 > 01:00 Orgasmorama: exhibition of original filmposters from the Sexploitation cinema from the 50s, 60s & 70s (Vitrin 21)
21:00 > 02:00 Piz-Aziz: pizza for the people (outside)
21:00 > 02:00 BBQ Bike: Barbecue for the people (outside)

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ALL DETAILS ON WWW.RECYCLART.BE