Full program revealed for Le Guess Who? 2026, our 20th anniversary edition

Joining Le Guess Who? 2026 are a.o. Martina Camargo, one of the most distinctive voices of the tambora and a bearer of its ancestral knowledge. Cellist and composer Okkyung Lee presents the new project ‘gyeol’, which interweaves Korean traditional instrumentation, experimental improvisation and avant-garde composition to create a sound world that resists categorization. Singer-songwriter and multi-instrumentalist Nirosta Steel—formerly a frequent collaborator of Arthur Russell—performs following the release of MY SKYSCRAPER; an album spanning 40 years of recorded output that moves freely between sensual art-folk, left field disco, experimental synth-pop, dub, funk and Balearic house. The multi-disciplinary performance Pitch, Pigeon, Puerta is an exploration of sound and movement, in which producer and musician Kelman Duran, artistic researcher and composer AGF, movement artist Kiani del Valle and visual artist Theresa Baumgartner question our conditioning towards different voices and languages, and how this influences our perception of the world.

Added to aja monet's curated program for the festival are Palestinian MC, singer and producer Shadia Mansour, known as "The First Lady of Arabic Hip-Hop"; R&B and neo soul musician Cody ChesnuTT, who—after a 13-year hiatus—presents his new project MAKING SCIENCE SIMPLE; and Alsarah & The Nubatones, a group exploring Nubian 'songs of return', modern migration patterns and the cultural exchanges between Sudan and Egypt with a sound that they dubbed ‘East-African retro-pop’.

Alsarah by Lexi Webster and BETHLEHEM's Lawrence Sammour by Tess Janssen

Radio Alhara and Wonder Cabinet return to Le Guess Who? to present a series of special performances. BETHLEHEM is a mourning sound piece, blending sacred choral tradition with experimental electronic music, presented by Lawrence Sammour—tenor and head of the Church of the Nativity’s choir for over fifty years—together with electronic musician, sound designer and producer Sary Moussa and composer Abed Kobeissy. Mai Mai Mai's electronic and research-based practice meets flutist and yargul master Osama Abu Ali in a special collaboration; and musician, producer, sound engineer and educator Fadi Tabbal presents a solo performance following his show at Le Guess Who? in 2025 with Snakeskin.

Sadly, Sa Pa and Ferro Gaita (because of the passing of their co-founder Bino Branco) had to cancel their performances at the festival. 

Sounds of Cabo Verde

Le Guess Who? presents Sounds of Cabo Verde in collaboration with Tabanka Records and FAROFFA. This program is dedicated to the diversity of Cabo Verde music culture, its traditions and the Cabo Verdean diaspora in the Netherlands. The program features Nancy Vieira, one of the island's most expressive and representative voices with a beautiful mix of Cabo Verdean musical tradition and contemporary sensibility; Sima nos é só nos, who bring the soul of Cabo Verde to life through batuku, a traditional style of music and dance performed by women as a form of community, resistance and storytelling; Grupo Pilon, one of the longest-running funaná bands outside of Cabo Verde; and more. Sounds of Cabo Verde takes place on Saturday, 7 November, at De Helling in Utrecht.

The Woman by Jules van Eijs

Le Guess Who? & U? present totally wired

Le Guess Who? and U? team up to present totally wired, in collaboration with Antipode, Girls to the Front, OCCII and ZALZALA. Built on shared knowledge and collective energy, this freely accessible program celebrates DIY culture, the communities that shape it, and the connections forged across borders through local scenes, diasporas and intersections. The program features a collective zine launch, a workshop, an exhibition, screenings, a market of local artists and distros, and a line-up connecting different shades of punk and bringing together exciting and loud voices. totally wired takes place on Saturday, 7 November, at dB's in Utrecht.

COSMOS presents Baltic Rehearsals

Le Guess Who?'s hybrid platform COSMOS presents Baltic Rehearsals, a residency project that celebrates new music from Vilnius, Riga and Tallinn. Initiated by COSMOS Embassy ICRN (Independent Community Radio Network), alongside two of its member radio stations, Tīrkultūra and IDA, the project brings together four pairs of artists to produce new music; all of whom are deeply connected to the local experimental music scenes of these cities. These solo and collaborative performances will also be broadcast live via Refuge Worldwide.

Tickets

Remaining Day Passes are on sale now; Friday Passes and 4-Day Passes are sold out. We also offer tickets for CJP & U-pas members. 

This year, Le Guess Who? offers separate tickets at a reduced price for specific venues. The following Venue Passes are available: 24 HOUR DUB at KABUL à GoGo (4PM on Saturday 7 November - 4PM on Sunday 8 November) and a club night with Octo Octa & Eris Drew, Hervé and jannah at WAS. (Saturday 7 November). Tickets are available here. 

Photo by Noah Schielen

Full line-up for Le Guess Who? 2026 (new additions marked in bold)

A.R. Kane
Aïta Mon Amour
Ambu Bambu
Ana Roxanne
Ángeles Toledano
Arsenal Mikebe ft. HHY & Valentina Magaletti
Aunty Rayzor
BBBBBBB
BETHLEHEM
Billy Fuller
Bitchin Bajas
Black Bombaim & Isaiah Mitchell
Blakk wi Blak...k...k
Bono / Burattini
CALID
Carmen Villain
Conjunto Media Luna
Craven Faults
Danifox b2b Lycox
Deafkids
Devon Rexi
DJ K
DJ Plead
EDU & JUDGITZU
ęmí: freedomsong by Rohan Ayinde and Tayo Rapoport
Eris Drew b2b Octo Octa
Fadi Tabbal
Gabe 'Nandez
Galecta
GENA feat. Liv.e & Karriem Riggins
Grouper
H31R
Heith & Tarawangsawelas
Henri Texier Quartet
Hervé
Holy Tongue
Horse Lords
Ibex Band
Indrė Jurgelevičiūtė & Eli Wewentxu
jannah
Jess Ribeiro
Jessica Moss & Tony Buck
Juana Molina
Kelsey Lu
Khadija Warzazia & Bnat el Houariyat
La guitarra flamenca de Yerai Cortés
Leo Middea
Loraine James
Low Jack presents Lacrimosa with Ensemble vocal Voix des Outre-Mer
Maalem Houssam Guinia
Mai Mai Mai & Osama Abu Ali
Martina Camargo
Maryam Saleh
Mazaher
Mohammad Syfkhan
Mother Tongue
Nakibembe Embaire Group
Nirosta Steel
Okkyung Lee presents 'gyeol'
OOIOO
Pitch, Pigeon, Puerta
Posuposu Otani
Pra Gira Girar
Radwan Ghazi Moumneh & Frédéric D. Oberland
Rai Tateishi (live processing by Koshiro Hino)
Raúl Monsalve y Los Forajidos
Roy Montgomery & Martha Skye Murphy
Ryoichi Kurokawa
Serokolo 7
Tainá e i o u
TENGGER
Tercet Imperial
The Ensemble of Cultural Approximation
The Ex & Brass Unbound
The Shits
The Talk (Heith, Günseli Yalcinkaya, Andrea Belosi)
Tony & Billa
Tony Njoku
Tortoise
Ustad Hassan Haider Khan
Water Damage presents Static Ecstatic
weed420
Yasuaki Shimizu
Yerai Cortés

24 HOUR DUB
Aba Shanti-I
Azu Tiwaline
CARISTA
Chinnamasta
Dubplate Pearl
Greentea Selecta
Habesha x Empress Black Omolo
Introspekt
Kat7 (Exile Di Brave and Gavsborg)
Kelman Duran live mixed by Chernosyl
Mad Professor & Sista Aisha
Mutabaruka
Nakibembe Embaire Group live mixed by Mad Professor
ojoo
Scientist performing 'Scientist Rids the World of the Evil Curse of the Vampires’
SEEKERSINTERNATIONAL
Star David Connection (Nyabinghi)
Tash LC
The Bug feat. Warrior Queen
The Bug vs Ghost Dubs
Touching Bass DJs

Sounds of Cabo Verde
Acácia Maio
Frequência Tabanka DJ set
Grupo Pilon
MF Andrade
Nancy Vieira
Sima nos é só nós
Tamboreiras de Rotterdam

totally wired
BeaBop
BOMBSTRAP
Emirhan X
Gimic
Sarsour صرصور
Snake Eater مارخور
Sublux
The Earwurms
The Woman
ZANJEER زنجیر

Curated by aja monet
AFRICA IS THE FUTURE (Nicolas Premier)
aja monet
Alsarah & The Nubatones
BLKNWS: Terms & Conditions (Kahlil Joseph)
Cody ChesnuTT presents MAKING SCIENCE SIMPLE
ESINAM
Georgia Anne Muldrow presents The Windgrease Session
Harriet Tubman & Georgia Anne Muldrow
King Ayisoba
Lillian Allen
Palestinian Sound Archive
SHABAKA
Shadia Mansour
Tshegue

KMRU presents WAI8
Aho Ssan
Carmen Villain
Elvin Brandhi
KMRU
Koshiro Hino
NEXCYIA
ouri
Samora Ogeda-Chemba Obyerodhyambo
Whatever The Weather

Curated by Los Thuthanaka
Chuquimamani-Condori presents DJ E
Comunidad Sikuris Berlin
Gigi Masin - Movement for
Joshua Chuquimia Crampton
Los Delfines del Amor
Los Thuthanaka
Melt-Banana

Curated by Tropical Fuck Storm
Amparo Heredia "La Repompilla"
Bill Orcutt
Bleak Squad
Chuck Roth
Dirty Three
Etran de L'Aïr
FUJI​|​|​|​|​|​||​|​|​|​|​TA
Gareth Liddiard
goat (JP)
Ishaaq Aarkistra & Ustad Hassan Haider Khan
Lost Animal
Mark Fell & Pat Thomas
Palm Springs
Tropical Fuck Storm
ZÖJ
أحمد [Ahmed]

COSMOS
COSMOS x Refuge Worldwide
Gintė Preisaitė
Kareem Samara
Maarja Nuut
Mama Demba
More Eaze
NAKID
OCCII
R_R_ & Gintė Preisaitė
Sign Libra & Robert Nikolajev
Spāre & Roma Vjazemski
Tabanka Records
Teatre & Maarja Nuut
YPY