Holland Festival

Vanavond is het zover! Lichtjes, gezelligheid, een lekker drankje en dit samen met je partner of je beste vriend. Tijd voor een avond ontspanning. Het is b***n dat dit dankzij de btw-verhoging van 9% naar 21% straks niet meer voor iedereen mogelijk is. Uit onderzoek weten we dat er 900.000 minder bezoeken aan podiumkunsten zullen zijn, dat betekent dus, minder concerten, minder theater, minder dans, minder cultuur. Daarom pleiten wij voor geen hogere btw, je belast er onze avond naar een concert mee.

When beautiful MOMENTS turn into beautiful MEMORIES! Flags, lamps, banners, we've got so many physical things to remember this year's season by. But the real memories are the ones you cannot touch (well... except the digital ones like photos and videos). What was your favourite digital or non-physical memory of The Holland Festival 2024? 😍 Share yours in the comments or on your story and tag us! We'd love to share!

🎶 Just a little while longer before we can share next year’s performance programme of the 78th edition of The Holland Festival. For now, here’s a stunning photograph from this year’s opening performance at .westergas ☀️😍 stay tuned!

is one of the coziest theatres in Amsterdam, especially during the Holland Festival! Located in the centre of the city and with an amazing theatre cafe with the yummiest food! Absolutely worth the visit, specifically during the 78th edition of the Holland Festival in June 2025 😉 reserve that month in your agenda! See you there!

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✨🍷 What creates the cozy and festive Holland Festival atmosphere? The people, those performing, those working behind the scenes and definitely YOU, the audience. We are busy with scheduling next year’s programme. Get your amount of free evenings in June 2025 ready because you are going to the best international performing arts festival in The Netherlands during the 78th edition of The Holland Festival! Follow our social media and subscribe to the newsletter (link in bio) for all the upcoming updates about the programme.

🔥 Director Tiago Rodrigues based this theatre piece, Dans la mesure de l’impossible (English translation: As far as impossible), on the experiences and stories of Red Cross and Doctors without Borders humanitarian aid workers in disaster areas. A pure, sincere approach which made for an intense, empathic experience of an extreme reality that most of us only know from the news. Performed from 9 – 11th of June during the Holland Festival '24 in . 🎭

direction & text | Tiago Rodrigues (@ tiago_rodrigues_teatro)
cast | Adrien Barazzone (), Beatriz Brás (), Baptiste Coustenoble (), Isabelle Caillat
music & music performed by | Gabriel Ferrandini ()
corrector English | Thomas Resendes
stage design | Laurent Junod, Wendy Tokuoka, Laura Fleury
light design | Rui Monteiro (.monteiro)
sound | Pedro Costa (@ pedromiguelmoreiracosta)
artistic collaboration & costumes | Magda Bizarro (@ magda.bizarro)
assistent director | Lisa Como (@ como.lisa)
production | Comédie de Genève (@ comediedegeneve)
coproduction | Odéon-Théâtre de l'Europe, Piccolo Teatro di Milano – Teatro d’Europa, Teatro Nacional D. Maria II, Équinoxe – scène nationale de Châteauroux, CSS Teatro stabile di innovazione del FVG – Udine, Festival d’Automne à Paris, Théâtre National de Bretagne-Rennes, Théâtre de Strasbourg – scène européenne, CDN Orléans, La Coursive Scène nationale de la Rochelle

footwear | CICR-Comité international de la Croix-Rouge, MSF-Médecins sans frontières

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Q***R AND HAPPY TO BE HERE at An Unapologetic Night Out at the on June 14th during the Holland Festival '24 edition✨🏳️‍🌈 With performances from , , ***rchoir_amsterdam

🌈In participation with .bario en .

📷 photos by David Hup ()

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One of Brazil’s most important and daring dance companies performed an energetic piece that questions and affirms identity and unicity through dance, technology and philosophy. Eu não sou só eu em mim was performed from 14 – 16th of June during the Holland Festival in and it was MESMERIZING!

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conception, direction, choreography | Alejandro Ahmed
creation, choreography and performance | Alejandro Ahmed, Aline Blasius, Ana Clara Pocai, Bibi Vieira, Carlos Calê, DG Fabulloso, Diego de los Campos, Gal Freire, Izhy Silveira, João Peralta, Karin Serafin, Malu Rabelo, Natascha Zacheo, Vitor Hamamoto
operation and creations in sound and video | Alejandro Ahmed, Diego de los Campos, João Peralta
technical director | Grupo Cena 11
direction assistant | Karin Serafin
interlocution for lighting | Irani Apolinário
soundtrack | Tálamo. K
variations on the theme by Ligeti for piano | João Peralta
costume design | Karin Serafin
production assistant | Malu Rabelo
creating and programming objects, instruments, and mechanisms for the scene | Diego de los Campos
theoretical-practical committee | Ana Maria Rabelo Gomes, Fabiana Dultra Britto, José Fernando Peixoto de Azevedo, Leonarda Glück
translation | Marcos Morgado
national broadcast |Gabi Gonçalves – Corpo Rastreado
production support | Edinburgh Fringe Society, MITsp e MITbr
support for project development | EPEC-Capacitação e serviços para empreendedores criativos
headquarters and technical preparation | Jurerê Sports Center (JUSC)

📷 photos by Ada Nieuwendijk

SHINING BRIGHTLY during the Unapologetic Night Out at the on June 14th during the Holland Festival '24 edition✨🏳️‍🌈 The gigantic wings from the performance The Bird of a Thousand Voices, displayed in the Muziekgebouw for ten days after their show, were giving the whole scene an even more magical feeling, let's add TALENTED artists and AMAZING music et voilà a night to remember forever!

With performances from , , ***rchoir_amsterdam

🌈In participation with .bario and .

📷 photos by David Hup ()

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Beautiful night view of Amsterdam next to the , where the Holland Festival headquarters are based 😉 Keep your June 2025 agenda free, because it’ll be booked by the best international performing arts during the 78th edition of the Holland Festival. Are you excited for next year’s programme?
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🚗💨 TUUT TUUT! Even je aandacht voor deze te gekke foto's van de tragikomedie ALFA. Met een liefdevolle en humoristische blik vertelt Wunderbaum het verhaal van een groep Europeanen die hun plaats opnieuw moet vinden in het licht van allerlei omwentelingen, nu de Europese Unie heeft besloten om in 2035 over te schakelen van de verbrandingsmotor naar elektrische auto's. ALFA speelde van 20 – 22 juni tijdens het Holland Festival in . Zou jij deze voorstelling nog eens willen zien?

concept & regie
cast .artner, .bart, , , .runninghill, Marleen Scholten, Matijs Jansen, Maartje Remmers
muziek & composities
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dramaturgie Thorben Meißner
Research Dafne Niglio
scenografie Maarten van Otterdijk
fotografie
co-productie Acteursgroep Wunderbaum, ,
speciale dank aan Fucina Editore, Progetto CulturAlfa, Museo Fratelli Cozzi
geïnterviewden Stefano Agazzi, Jacopo Bariani, Maurizio Cella, Elisabetta Cozzi, Mario Favilla, Marco Fazio, Eric ’t Hart, Patrick Italiano, Antonio Magro, Theo Meinster, Pasquale Oliveri, Arie Rosmolen, Gippo Salvetti

📷 foto's door Julian Maiwald (@ jln_mwld)

🌈 Queer...yes...and an incredibly talented, funny, amazing, provoking, memorable performance made to eventually convert you to q***rness? ABSOLUTELY YES! The Faggots and Their Friends Between Revolutions is a musical theatre piece based on the 1977 cult novel of the same name by Larry Mitchell and Ned Asta, a story in which the q***r community is celebrated with song, dance, and where new myths and fables are born. 🎶

direction, text |
music |
musical direction |
choreography, costumes |
set design |
light design | Bertrand Couderc
sound design |
dramaturgy, direction |
cast | .orpheus .price @ Joy Smith .andass
comissioned by |
production | @ Factory International @ Manchester International Festival
exclusive license, courtesy | & New York

📸 by David Hup ()

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🎹 REMEMBER the concert 11.000 Saiten? A unique music experience that took place on the 22nd of June during the Holland Festival. Fifty pianos in a large circle in Amsterdam’s venue Gashouder formed the basis for an exceptional composition of an at times ethereal beauty that swells into a thunderous roar. Look at the page for more photos and videos of this performance. Would you attend a concert like this?

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commissioned by Busoni-Mahler Foundation
with the support of Ernst von Siemens Musiktiftung ()
exclusive project partner Hailun Piano Co., Ltd. ()
made possible by , , , Oostenrijkse Ambassade Den Haag

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During the durational performance The House with the Ocean View, you had the opportunity to participate in several interesting workshops at the on 8, 11 & 15th of June organised by .young and . Did you visit any works by Marina Abramović? What do you remember most?

📸 by Yvonne Zoethout

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During the durational performance The House with the Ocean View, you could participate in several interesting workshops at the on 8, 11 & 15th of June organised by .young and . Did you visit any works by Marina Abramović?

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🎶 IMAGINE the sound of 50 pianos played together in one of the most beautiful venues in Amsterdam! 11.000 Saiten (which stands for 11.000 strings) was a unique musical experience on the 22nd of June during the Holland Festival. Who wouldn’t want to miss this once in a lifetime concert!

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performance & production by
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commissioned by Busoni-Mahler Foundation
with the support of Ernst von Siemens Musiktiftung ()
exclusive project partner Hailun Piano Co., Ltd. ()
made possible by , , , Oostenrijkse Ambassade Den Haag

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Noodles... heel veel noodles, gekke dansjes en heel veel... appelsap? 24 uur lang speelde Georgina Verbaan de verliefde, maar ook wanhopige, Virginia. Elke 10 minuten kwam er een nieuwe tegenspeler binnen. En elke nieuwe partner bracht een nieuw verhaal met zich mee en dus ook een spannend nieuw einde. Blijven de twee geliefden samen? Of verlaten ze elkaar met de noodles in het haar? 🍜

Written & directed by Nat Randall and Anna Breckon
video ontwerp | EO Gill, Anna Breckon
licht co-ontwerp | Amber Silk, Kayla Burrett, Lauren Woodhead
geluidsontwerp | Nina Buchanan
decor ontwerp | FUTURE METHOD STUDIO
ontwerp haar en make-up | Sophie Roberts
producent | Jade Muratore
tour manager | Jade Muratore
productieleiding | Leonie Baars
videoregie | EO Gill
camera operator | Saskia Habermann, Menke Visser, Helle Lyshøj, Zoë Jungmann, Anouschka Reinhout, Jessica van Rüschen
editor (theater) | Saskia de Vries, Lotje van Lieshout
editor (livescreening) |Natasja Giebels, Julia Willms
technische productie| Rob Kuhlman, Maarten van Burken
technische coördinatie| Eline Versteeg, Glenn Neyndorff
geluidstechniek | Asun Gaaikema, Rob Kuhlman, Bernhard van den Dool
lichtoperator | Bea Verbeek
lichttechniek | May-Britt Kreeft
videotechniek | Raul Saldargiagga, Paul Tijhuis
productiecoördinatie | Laura Jonker
stage management | Wendy van Os, Jossie van Dongen
coördinatie deelnemers | Noortje Koster, Daphne Verweij, Yola Parie, Lena Meijer, Anne van der Weijden
styling | Monica Petit
haar en make-up | Brigitte Pleijzier
tolk Nederlandse Gebarentaal | Aukje Boersma
live boventiteling/vertaling | Substream B.V.
EHBO | Amburent
coördinator beweging Femke Luyckx
Check de volledige credits op de Holland Fesival website!

📷 Ada Nieuwendijk

☀️🌳 Met een camera, een scherm en een eenvoudig podium creëert Jatahy een openluchtruimte om te praten, luisteren en verbinden. Ze ging op 15 en 19 juni, tijdens het Holland Festival '24 in gesprek met bewoners van twee Amsterdamse wijken: Zuid-Oost en Noord. Allen mensen met hun hart in Amsterdam en bij hun community.

In gesprek op 19 juni met: Monica Akihary, Giacomo Cardoni, Mohamed Zouini, Linda Carolu, Joke van der Helm, Basak Layic, Niels Caszo, Saartje Van Camp, Samuel Harlen

Door associate artist . Deze voorstelling is mede mogelijk gemaakt door , Gemeente Amsterdam, ZOZ Fonds

📷 foto's door Ada Nieuwendijk

🚗❤️ Met een liefdevolle en humoristische blik vertelt Wunderbaum het verhaal van een groep Europeanen die hun plaats opnieuw moet vinden in het licht van allerlei omwentelingen, nu de Europese Unie heeft besloten om in 2035 over te schakelen van de verbrandingsmotor naar elektrische auto's. ALFA speelde van 20 – 22 juni tijdens het Holland Festival in .

concept & regie
cast .artner, .bart, , , .runninghill, Marleen Scholten, Matijs Jansen, Maartje Remmers
muziek & composities
zang
dramaturgie Thorben Meißner
Research Dafne Niglio
scenografie Maarten van Otterdijk
fotografie
co-productie Acteursgroep Wunderbaum, ,
speciale dank aan Fucina Editore, Progetto CulturAlfa, Museo Fratelli Cozzi
geïnterviewden Stefano Agazzi, Jacopo Bariani, Maurizio Cella, Elisabetta Cozzi, Mario Favilla, Marco Fazio, Eric ’t Hart, Patrick Italiano, Antonio Magro, Theo Meinster, Pasquale Oliveri, Arie Rosmolen, Gippo Salvetti

📷 foto's door Julian Maiwald (@ jln_mwld)

More visual memories of Mutability (23rd of June during the Holland Festival at the ) 🎶 Composer Yannis Kyriakides asked twelve other composers to write two to three-minute miniatures. Several performed the music themselves, alongside musicians from Asko|Schönberg. ‘Each piece tells its own story,’ Kyriakides says, ‘which is not expressed in language but embodied by the musicians.’

concept, artistieke leiding, compositie, sound design | Yannis Kyriakides ()
muziek | Silvia Borzelli, Trevor Grahl, Claudio Jacomucci, Dmitri Kourliandski, Anna Korsun, Andy Moor, Brigitta Muntendorf, Geneviève Murphy, Mayke Nas, Aurélie Nyirabikali Lierman, Martijn Padding, Jasna Veličković
audio visual art, creative coding | Darien Brito
ruimtelijk ontwerp, scenografie | Theun Mosk
ontwikkeling creatieve techniek | Cas Dekker
geluidsontwerp | Nina Kraszewska
uitvoering | Pepe Garcia, Sebastiaan van Halsema, Claudio Jacomucci, Sebastiaan Kemner, Arthur Kerklaan, David Kweksilber, Geneviève Murphy, Andy Moor, Aurélie Nyirabikali Lierman, Pauline Post, Joseph Puglia, Jasna Veličković
creatieve technologie | Niels Weber
coproductie | Asko|Schönberg (), Holland Festival, Innovation:Lab ()

📸: Ada Nieuwendijk

The MAGICAL world premiere of The Bird of a Thousand Voices took place from the 8th – 9th of June during the Holland Festival at . Would you like to experience more of this beautiful performance? Check out https://www.bird1000.com/ (link in bio) for the online game and the latest music releases.

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direction
scenography .acket
vocals
keyboards .k
bass
drums
dramaturgy @ Florian Hellwig
costume design
creative engineer
audio visueel design
lighting design
hair & makeup
illustrations
photography
production Truth.io
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How can the legacy of Haitian voudoun, urban dances and experimental film affect a performative process? The Afro-Brazilian choreographer, dancer and visual artist Ana Pi had a dialogue with 20th century avant-garde filmmaker Maya Deren, as well as with her mentor Katherine Dunham, known as the queen mother of black dance. The Divine Cypher, from 18 – 19th of June, during the Holland festival in .

choreographic and scenographic concept, video, research and interpretation | .pi.ana
light creation | Bia Kaysel
light reinterpretation | Jean-Marc Ségalen
stage management | Bia Kaysel, Jean-Marc Ségalen
music and sonorities | Jideh HIGH ELEMENTS, Emy de Pradines, Auguste de Pradines, Ezili Nenenn Ô, Julien Creuzet, Maya Deren
real memories, dreamed dialogues and/or multiple collaborations | Katherine Dunham, Maya Deren, Emy de Pradines, Lumane Casimir, Martha Jean-Claude, Toto Bissainthe, Marie-Ange Aurilin, Ginite Popote, Tara El, Wendy Désert, Gerda Boisguené, Murielle Jassinthe, TRVANIA, Jenny Mezile
semiotic advice | Profe. Dre. Cida Moura
philosophical advice Profe. Dre. Maria Fernanda Novo
plastic consultancy | Julien Creuzet
filter design | Emilien Colombier
costumes | Carla de Lá, Miliane Rodsil, Isabella Rodsil
contributions scenographic realisation | Studio Julien Creuzet, Garance Cabrit, Louis Somveille
production and distribution | NA MATA LAB, Hanna Mauvieux
co-production | The Patricia Phelps de Cisneros Research Institute, Museum of Modern Art, Terra Batida, Be My Guest — Réseau international pour les pratiques émergentes, La Briqueterie CDCN du Val-de-Marne, CNDC, Angers, Kunstencentrum Vooruit Gent
part of the collaboration programme | Hauts-de-France / Vlaanderen
co-production film with the participation of | Fondation Cartier pour l’art contemporain Soirées Nomades
with support by | SPEDIDAM, Région Île-de-France, DRAC Ile-de-France
📷 photos by Yvonne Zoethout (@ yvonnezoethout)

Elk jaar is er een opera uit het festivalprogramma ook op een groot scherm in het park te zien. Dit jaar was dat Fidelio van regisseur Andriy Zholdak in Park Frankendael. Op 16 juni kon je genieten van deze heerlijke (gratis) ervaring in de buitenlucht. Welke opera zou jij volgend jaar willen zien en waar?

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Met een camera, een scherm en een eenvoudig podium creëert Jatahy een openluchtruimte om te praten, luisteren en verbinden. Ze ging op 15 en 19 juni, tijdens het Holland Festival '24 in gesprek met bewoners van twee Amsterdamse wijken: Zuid-Oost en Noord. Allen mensen met hun hart in Amsterdam en bij hun community.

In gesprek op 15 juni met: Chander Peroti, Tahrim Ramdjan, Neumine Marshall, Koenraad Wiering, Carolyn Muntz, Manoah Salampessy, Terra Dakota Stein, Hendrika

Door associate artist . Deze voorstelling is mede mogelijk gemaakt door , Gemeente Amsterdam, ZOZ Fonds

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🍷🎼 A TASTE OF LOVE kregen de partners van Virginia in The Second Woman, gespeeld door Georgina Verbaan. Liefde... of werden ze toch de deur gewezen? Elke scene van circa tien minuten kreeg een andere wending. Het script is geschreven, maar er was speelruimte om de relatie tussen de twee partners verder te zetten of tot een einde te brengen. 24 uur lang speelde Georgina met wel 100 verschillende tegenspelers. Zou jij ooit in zo'n theatermarathon willen spelen?

Written & directed by Nat Randall and Anna Breckon
video ontwerp | EO Gill, Anna Breckon
licht co-ontwerp | Amber Silk, Kayla Burrett, Lauren Woodhead
geluidsontwerp | Nina Buchanan
decor ontwerp | FUTURE METHOD STUDIO
ontwerp haar en make-up | Sophie Roberts
producent | Jade Muratore
tour manager | Jade Muratore
productieleiding | Leonie Baars
videoregie | EO Gill
camera operator | Saskia Habermann, Menke Visser, Helle Lyshøj, Zoë Jungmann, Anouschka Reinhout, Jessica van Rüschen
editor (theater) | Saskia de Vries, Lotje van Lieshout
editor (livescreening) |Natasja Giebels, Julia Willms
technische productie| Rob Kuhlman, Maarten van Burken
technische coördinatie| Eline Versteeg, Glenn Neyndorff
geluidstechniek | Asun Gaaikema, Rob Kuhlman, Bernhard van den Dool
lichtoperator | Bea Verbeek
lichttechniek | May-Britt Kreeft
videotechniek | Raul Saldargiagga, Paul Tijhuis
productiecoördinatie | Laura Jonker
stage management | Wendy van Os, Jossie van Dongen
coördinatie deelnemers | Noortje Koster, Daphne Verweij, Yola Parie, Lena Meijer, Anne van der Weijden
styling | Monica Petit
haar en make-up | Brigitte Pleijzier
tolk Nederlandse Gebarentaal | Aukje Boersma
live boventiteling/vertaling | Substream B.V.
EHBO | Amburent
coördinator beweging Femke Luyckx
(for full credits, check the website page of The Second Woman)

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The famous CARMEN played on June 23rd at during the Holland festival '24. Working seamlessly with language, movement, image and song, Moved by the Motion forms a genre-bending adaptation that reinterprets the themes that Carmen embodies: love, loss and liberation.

cast | Alicia Aumüller, Tosh Basco, Ryan Capozzo, Tabita Johannes, Josh Johnson, Katia Ledoux, Perle Palombe, Benjamin Radjaipour, Sophie Yukiko, Emeka* Ene, Javiera de la Fuente, Tiran Willemse, Simon Thoeni, Liam Rooney, Valerie Tveiten, Dariia Yelahina, Peter Gijsbertsen
artistic direction | Moved by the Motion
staging | Wu Tsang
movement direction | Tosh Basco
choreography | Josh Johnson
musical direction | Asma Maroof
musical direction | Collegium Novum Zoi Tsokanou
composition | Andrew Yee
choir rehearsal director | Jonathan Palmer Lakeland
script | Sophia Al-Maria
set design | Nicole Hoesli, Nina Mader
costume design | Kyle Luu
hairdressing | Sara Mathiasson
lighting design | Frank Bittermann
dramaturgy | Helena Eckert
artistic research | Fred Moten / Pie.fmc (Pedro G. Romero, Joaquín Vázquez, Enrique Fuenteblanca)
in participation with Collegium Novum Zürich, The Solti Foundation production Schauspielhaus Zürich coproduction Hartwig Art Foundation
Carmen in Amsterdam is co-presented by and .
Production by .ch, in co-production with Hartwig Art Foundation.

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The MAGICAL world premiere of The Bird of a Thousand Voices, which took place from the 8th – 9th of June during the Holland Festival at . Would you like to experience more of this beautiful performance? Check out https://www.bird1000.com/ (link in bio) for the online game and the latest music releases.
 
music & piano
direction
scenography .acket
vocals
keyboards .k
bass
drums
dramaturgy @ Florian Hellwig
costume design
creative engineer
audio visueel design
lighting design
hair & makeup
illustrations
photography
production Truth.io
young
with the support of:




 
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Imagine a night full of Brazilian music to dance to, drinks and your group of friends. Baile funk, the
young music genre coming out of the favela’s hills and asphalt, is Brazil’s counterpart to Western rave and the perfect genre for this event. This amazing night took place on 7th of June during the Holland Festival ‘24 at .amsterdam 🎉🇧🇷

performers | .mbe , , , , Palo Santos Discos
📷 photos by David Hup ()