Tag: Music
A touch of Woodstock comes to Belgium
The 9th edition of the ‘Tomorrowland’ music festival in Boom (Antwerp) welcomed a total of 180,000 dance enthusiasts over 3 days. This year was...
Surprise royal guests at ‘People’s Ball’
Place Jeu de Balles (Vossenplein) in the popular Marolles District of Brussels was the scene of a packed out People’s Ball on Saturday 21...
Return of a legend
Bob Dylan, one of the most influential musicians of the last five decades, will return to Brussels on 10 November to sing his repertoire...
Israeli wins Queen Elisabeth piano competition
The 2013 edition of the Queen Elisabeth Competition focused on piano. Giltburg performed a well-appreciated programme, which included a Beethoven sonata and a Rachmaninov...
Wall-bania jibe causes uproar
Parents of pupils attending the Dutch-speaking Royal Atheneum in Etterbeek have been outraged by the map of Wallonia drawn up by the schools Flemish...
Israeli pianist wins the Queen Elisabeth competition
28-year-old Boris Giltburg of Israel won the prestigious Queen Elizabeth Competition for piano. In this video, extracts of his winning performance and a first...
Piano competition reaches final stage
Whilst the Eurovision song contest was entertaining Europe with popular songs, a prestigious jury in Brussels was finalising the list of 12 candidates who...
Checking out the Clubbing scene in Brussels
Do you love music? How about electronic dance music?Do you want to be the person who knows about the hottest new artist before everyone...
Three Grammys for Belgium’s Gotye
Gotye, whose real name is Wouter Debacker and who hails from Bruges, won the award for Record of the Year for his hit single 'Somebody...
Music: the food of love
The idea that music is an aphrodisiac is no more than an urban myth, passed down through the centuries by peddlers of dubious food...