The Jostiband is coming to the Overijssel Liberation Festival this year as Ambassador of Freedom. The world’s largest orchestra of people with intellectual disabilities will travel to Zwolle on May 5 to draw attention to something that is essential to them: the freedom to be yourself. Moreover, they are celebrating their 60th anniversary and they are doing so on the Makers stage with a very spectacular show, complete with various guest contributions.
Lovers of alternative sound find their home base on Popeiland with Podium Abboa and Sena Performers Stage. At Podium Abboa, the six-piece band NAFT transforms the stage with their rave spirit into an energetic live spectacle and Jack and the Weatherman make it clear why they have now become a permanent fixture in the international folk-pop landscape.
De Nooiters is an urgent and human project that uses music as a real, connecting force. They give a voice to people who often go unheard: asylum seekers, refugees, the ‘nobodies’. The result is a mesmerizing, stirring mix of Arabic dance floor tracks to opera and alternative rock. On Sena Performers Stage, Badminton and Magnetic Spacemen, among others, provide a good dose of adrenaline.
