Le Guess Who? 2021

Video Portraits

LGW brings you video portraits from Le Guess Who? 2021, featuring Gebroeders Dieleman van Eeckhout and Koen Delaere.

LGW? 2021 Line-Up

Le Guess Who? 2021 featured programs curated by John Dwyer, Lucrecia Dalt, Matana Roberts, Phil Elverum and Midori Takada. View the full line-up via the link below.

LE GUESS WHO? 2021 LINE-UP

The Magazine

This year, we have made a Le Guess Who? Magazine, offering you some inspiration with background articles and illustrated stories.

READ THE MAGAZINE

COSMOS

As an international festival, Le Guess Who? has always worked with a borderless and boundary-crossing ethos. Now, the organization further enhances this focus with the launch of COSMOS: a new, hybrid platform that connects the local, physical festival environment with exclusive content that is available for worldwide, online streaming.

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U?

Le Guess Who? exists to bring people together through art and music. In 2021, the festival makes a new addition to the festival: U?, a new, participative and freely accessible day program created for and with the city of Utrecht.

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Audio Recordings

Listen to performances of the Microphones, Mazaher, FLOHIO, Slumberland feat. Sainkho Namtchylak, Zwangere Guy, Suuns, Ice Balloons and Plague Organ.

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Podcast: The Big Playback

‘The Big Playback’, a conversational, in-depth podcast about all things music. In this podcast, host Margaret Munchheimer talks to musicians, scholars, record label owners, and music managers and delves into different topics exploring individual and collective musical experiences.

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Video Recordings

Relive the festival; watch live performances by Mazaher and Suuns. The upcoming time, we'll be sharing more performances on this website and our social media.

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Photo Archive

Re-watch many Le Guess Who? 2021 performances and get a look behind the scenes. Take a scroll through the incredible photos made by our team of photographers.

Our residential photographers Juri Hiensch and Melanie Marsman have been exploring Le Guess Who?, and captured different photo series during the festival. The upcoming time, we'll be sharing these series on this website and our social media. You can now already view series captured with Eddie Chacon, Pink Oculus, Siti Muharam, the Hidden Musics series, a stunning series of artist portraits surrounding their performances at the festival and Nyege Nyege Tapes & Hakuna Kulala's involvement in LGW21.

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Le Guess Who? x Front

As part of our new, hybrid platform COSMOS, we once again collaborated with Dutch music platform Front to bring you live sessions with rising Dutch artists. Watch and listen to the live sessions + interviews with Dutch post-punk outfit Private Bankingand and Anna van Rij.

LE GUESS WHO? X FRONT

Le Guess Who? x SPEAK

In collaboration with SPEAK, we started a new video series in which Utrechters introduce an artist on the Le Guess Who? 2021 line-up from their country.

LE GUESS WHO? X SPEAK

3voor12 Live Sessions

At Club Nine on the top floor of TivoliVredenburg, the main location and hub of Le Guess Who?, Dutch broadcaster VPRO 3voor12 recorded live sessions with artists from LGW21. Watch live sessions featuring Bendik Giske, Automatic, Mario Batkovic, and Vanishing Twin.

WATCH 3voor12 LIVE SESSIONS

Vrije Geluiden

During Le Guess Who? 2021, VPRO Vrije Geluiden recorded live sessions with multiple artists who performed at the festival. All sessions are now online, featuring Etran de L’Aïr, Víctor Herrero, Mario Batkovic, Mazaher, and Zaur Nagoy in collaboration with Jrpjej, presented by Ored Recordings.

WATCH VRIJE GELUIDEN

Press Archive

Our archive includes press previews, reports and interviews for LGW21. Have a look at all published articles at the link below.

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