BRAND!

This fall we are hosting BRAND! for the tenth time, our jazz festival with a tradition of dazzling and compelling concerts. We are focusing 100% on our vibrant Belgian jazz scene, with two central guests presenting new projects, and another myriad of bands embodying the many faces of our scene. As a bonus, BRAND! also presents four bands in the Belgium Booms x JazzLab program, selected by an international jury.

With Hanne De Backer and Mattias De Craene as central guests, BRAND! chooses two voices at the forefront of jazz. The concerts in nona, Cultuurcentrum Mechelen and the Predikherenkerk will once more make the 10th edition of BRAND! a feast full of fire, variety and surprises.

- line-up -
Alex Koo Trio - THE HEART, THE HEART, THE HEART, HERE, NOW! - Mattias De Craene ft. Black Koyo - Benjamin Sauzereau REMORQUE - Soil - Joachim Badenhorst's Youran - g a b b r o 's GROUNDSPEED - Dishwasher_ - SPACE Quartet - Woolvs - Large Ensemble - Mattias De Craene & Alex Zhang Hungtai - STUFF.

As part of the festival's side program, on Friday, November 28, you can catch the album presentation of WIM Fanfare: Free Music (1975–1988) with live music + film screening of Fred Van Hove, an improvised life at Cinema Lumière Mechelen. On Saturday, November 29, the book 'Mon Devoghelaere - Jazzlogboek. Notities van een jazzvogel 1960-1968' will be presented at nona - free admission.

I.c.w. Cultuurcentrum Mechelen. 
With the kind support of festival partners Brewery Omer Vander Ghinste, Eubelius an the National Lottery.