Sonic City Festival is an alternative 3-day music fest in Kortrijk, Belgium where eclecticism is key and discovery is imminent. The Sonic City concept is clear and simple: curators are appointed and receive all the artistic freedom to select and handpick the line-up.
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The goal of the festival is to treat those music lovers that surf right beneath the mainstream to a weekend where discovery, mix-ups and musical eclecticism are key. Sonic City is a place where small, emerging bands share the stage with bigger ones, where genres and subgenres melt together into one coherent entity. And this exactly is what makes Sonic City special: it’s not a rock festival, it’s not a free jazz festival, it’s not an electronic festival. But it very well could be. By selecting the right curator – a band, an artist, a DJ with a clear open-mindedness towards musical diversity - Sonic City can be anything. But above all, the festival exhibits the vision of the curator(s) on the contemporary music scene.
We like to keep an open eye, and host a festival with a wide spectrum. The more eclectic, the more we feel it's Sonic City.
Previous curators were the Belgian band MILLIONAIRE (2007), NYC experimental hip hop band DÄLEK (2009), DEERHOOF (2010), the Australian band LIARS (2011), the Canadians of SUUNS (2012), BEAK> (2013), James Holden (2014), Viet Cong (2016), Savages (2016), Thurston Moore (2017), Courtney Barnett (2018), Cate Le Bon and Shame (2019) Low, Gilla Band and Black Country, New Road (2022). In 2021, due to the covid pandemic, there was a smaller edition curated by Sonic City. Our latest edition was curated by the power-duo Charlotte Adigéry & Bolis Pupul (2023).
