Folk Dranouter is a yearly folk festival spanning four days at the beginning of August in the Belgian village Dranouter. Since 2005, a second, smaller festival, Dranouter aan zee (Dranouter at sea) is organised in

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on the beach near the end of April.

History

Created in 1975 by the people of the youth club "De Zon", the first festival showed eight groups on one day with the

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as headliners, and had some 300 visitors. By 1977, the festival had specialized in folk music and got some 1,000 visitors. After a few more years of growth, the festival reached a stable audience of three- to five thousand visitors throughout the 1980s. From the end of the 1980s on, the festival started programming other genres like world music (with Miriam Makeba in 1989) and singer-songwriters (with

Billy Bragg Stephen William Bragg (born 20 December 1957) is an English singer-songwriter and left-wing activist. His music blends elements of folk music, punk rock and protest songs, with lyrics that mostly span political or romantic themes. His music is ...

in 1988), and included some more well-known names. The audience increased to some 45,000 people in 1995 and 65,000 in 1997. In 1997 and 1998, Dranouter won the ZAMU award for best musical event.

Folk museum

In the wake of the festival, a museum of folk music also opened in Dranouter.

Artists

Famous artists who performed in Dranouter over the years include:

1975–1987

* Derroll Adams (1976, 1981, 1991) * Wannes Van de Velde (1977, 1979, 1982, 1987, 1996) * Dick Gaughan (1979) * Paddy Glackin (1982) *

Fairport Convention Fairport Convention are an English folk rock band, formed in 1967 by guitarists Richard Thompson and Simon Nicol, bassist Ashley Hutchings and drummer Shaun Frater (with Frater replaced by Martin Lamble after their first gig.) They started o ...

(1983, 1993, 2000) * The Chieftains (1983, 1997, 2000, 2009) *

Alan Stivell Alan Stivell (; born Alan Cochevelou on 6 January 1944) is a French, Breton and Celtic musician and singer, songwriter, recording artist, and master of the Celtic harp. From the early 1970s, he revived global interest in the Celtic (specifically ...

(1983, 1989, 1994, 2000, 2004) * The Dubliners (1984, 1991) * Brenda Wootton (1985) *

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(1985) * Zachary Richard (1985) * Kate & Anna McGarrigle (1986, 1995) * Flaco Jiménez (1986) * John Prine (1987) *

Steeleye Span Steeleye Span are a British folk rock band formed in 1969 in England by Fairport Convention bass player Ashley Hutchings and established London folk club duo Tim Hart and Maddy Prior. The band were part of the 1970s British folk revival, and we ...

(1987, 1994, 1999)

1988

* Mary Coughlan & Band * Ralph McTell *

(also 1993, 2008, 2014) * Malicorne * Rory McLeod (also 1994) & Kathryn Tickell * Dónal Lunny (also 1998) & Liam O'Flynn

1989

* Miriam Makeba * Richard Thompson (also 1992, 2000, 2009, 2014) *

* Soldat Louis * Värttinä

1990

Donovan Donovan Phillips Leitch (born 10 May 1946), known mononymously as Donovan, is a Scottish musician, songwriter, and record producer. He developed an eclectic and distinctive style that blended folk, jazz, pop, psychedelic rock and world mus ...

* Johannes Kerkorrel (also 1997, 2002) * June Tabor * Luka Bloom (also 1994, 2006, 2011) * Rory Block

1991

* Dan Ar Braz * Melanie (also 1995) *

Suzanne Vega Suzanne Nadine Vega ( Peck; born July 11, 1959) is an American singer-songwriter best known for her folk-inspired music. Vega's music career spans almost 40 years. She came to prominence in the mid-1980s, releasing four singles that entered the ...

(also 1997, 2002, 2008)

1992

* Christy Moore (also 1994, 2005) * Geoffrey Oryema * Kirsty MacColl * Les Négresses Vertes (also 2007) * Marianne Faithfull (also 2005) * Pentangle * Värttinä (also 1997, 2002, 2008) * Zap Mama (also 1995, 2006)

1993

* Altan (also 1997, 2007) * Cesária Évora *

Indigo Girls Indigo Girls are an American folk rock music duo from Atlanta, Georgia, United States, consisting of Amy Ray and Emily Saliers. The two met in elementary school and began performing together as high school students in Decatur, Georgia, part o ...

(also 2002) * Loreena McKennitt (also 2008) * Michelle Shocked * Mikis Theodorakis * The Pogues (also 2010)

1994

* Lloyd Cole * Joan Baez * Guo Yue * Eleanor McEvoy *

Angelo Branduardi Angelo Branduardi (born 12 February 1950) is an Italian folk/folk rock singer-songwriter and composer who scored relative success in Italy and European countries such as France, Germany, Belgium, Netherlands and Greece. Biography Branduardi was ...

* Khaled

1995

Ry Cooder Ryland Peter "Ry" Cooder (born March 15, 1947) is an American musician, songwriter, film score composer, record producer, and writer. He is a multi-instrumentalist but is best known for his slide guitar work, his interest in traditional music, an ...

& David Lindley (with Joachim Cooder and Rosanna Lindley) (USA) *

Los Lobos Los Lobos (, Spanish for "the Wolves") are an American rock band from East Los Angeles, California. Their music is influenced by rock and roll, Tex-Mex, country, zydeco, folk, R&B, blues, brown-eyed soul, and traditional music such as cumbia, ...

(USA) * Kate & Anna McGarrigle (Canada) * Melanie (USA) * Zap Mama (Zaire) * Mary Black (Ireland) * Shawn Colvin (USA) * Songhai (Mali/Spain/Great Britain) * Giora Feidman (USA) * Gabriel Yacoub (France) * Shane MacGowan and The Popes (Great Britain) * Taraf de Haïdouks (Romania) * Khadja Nin (Burundi) * Jo Lemaire (Belgium) * The Equation (Great Britain) *

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(USA) * JPP (Finland)

1996

Elvis Costello Declan Patrick MacManus Order of the British Empire, OBE (born 25 August 1954), known professionally as Elvis Costello, is an English singer-songwriter and record producer. He has won multiple awards in his career, including a Grammy Award in ...

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(also 2006) * Yannis Markopoulos (also 2004) * Clannad * Cowboy Junkies * Maria McKee * Janis Ian * Huun-Huur-Tu (also 2003) * Cassandra Wilson * The Corrs *

Ani di Franco Angela Maria "Ani" DiFranco (; born September 23, 1970) is an American-Canadian singer-songwriter. She has released more than 20 albums. DiFranco's music has been classified as folk rock and alternative rock, although it has additional influe ...

1997

Sinéad O'Connor Shuhada Sadaqat (born Sinéad Marie Bernadette O'Connor on 8 December 1966; ) is an Irish singer-songwriter. Her debut album, ''The Lion and the Cobra'', was released in 1987 and charted internationally. Her second album, ''I Do Not Want What ...

(also 2007) * The Levellers (also 1999, 2003, 2007) * Noa *

Axelle Red Fabienne Demal (born 15 February 1968), better known by her stage name Axelle Red, is a Belgian singer-songwriter. She has released 11 albums, including '' Sans plus attendre'', '' À Tâtons'', '' Toujours Moi'' and '' Jardin Secret''; she is b ...

(also 2000, 2007) * Mari Boine * Hedningarna * Davy Spillane *

Afro Celt Sound System Afro Celt Sound System is a British musical group who fuse electronic music with traditional Gaelic and West African music. Afro Celt Sound System was formed in 1995 by producer-guitarist Simon Emmerson, and feature a wide range of guest artists. ...

(also 1999) *

Beth Orton Elizabeth Caroline Orton (born 14 December 1970) is an English musician, known for her "folktronica" sound, which mixes elements of folk and electronica. She was initially recognised for her collaborations with William Orbit, Andrew Weatherall, ...

(also 1998, 2003)

1998

Ali Farka Touré Ali Ibrahim "Ali Farka" Touré (31 October 1939 – 6 March 2006) was a Malian singer and multi-instrumentalist, and one of the African continent's most internationally renowned musicians. His music blends traditional Malian music and its deriv ...

* Kodo * Heather Nova * Patti Smith * Dulce Pontes * Van Morrison *

Martha Wainwright Martha Wainwright (born May 8, 1976) is a Canadian-American singer-songwriter, musician, and actress. She has released seven critically-acclaimed studio albums. Wainwright is the daughter of musicians Kate McGarrigle and Loudon Wainwright III a ...

(also 2008) * Donal Lunny * Lunasa * The Nits

1999

* I Muvrini *

Nick Cave Nicholas Edward Cave (born 22 September 1957) is an Australian singer, songwriter, poet, lyricist, author, screenwriter, composer and occasional actor. Known for his baritone voice and for fronting the rock band Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds, Ca ...

* Baaba Maal * Rubén González * James Taylor * John Hiatt * Värttinä * Kepa Junkera *

* Shooglenifty

2000

* Mediæval Bæbes *

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(also 2005) *

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2001

* Novastar (also 2005, 2009, 2014) * Paul Weller * Youssou N'Dour *

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* The Waterboys * Neil Finn * Luar na Lubre * Admiral Freebee (also 2003, 2007) * Flip Kowlier (also 2003, 2005, 2009, 2014) * Maddy Prior

2002

* Patti Smith * Ray Davies * Buena Vista Social Club (also 2005) * Femi Kuti * Hothouse Flowers

2003

* Hooverphonic (also 2006) * Gotan Project *

Linda Thompson Linda Diane Thompson (born May 23, 1950) is an American songwriter, former actress and beauty pageant winner. Thompson began her acting career as a " Hee Haw Honey" on the American television variety show '' Hee Haw''. She was also a girlfrien ...

* Daniel Lanois * Arno (also 2007) * Elliott Murphy * Gabriel Ríos (also 2006, 2008, 2014)

2004

* Starsailor (also 2007) * Calexico * Goran Bregović * Moya Brennan * The Skatalites * Under byen *

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(also 2006, 2010)

2005

* Yann Tiersen * Jah Wobble * The Proclaimers *

2006

* Ed Harcourt *

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* Lambchop * Jamie Cullum * John Parish

2007

* Isobel Campbell *

Mark Lanegan Mark William Lanegan (November 25, 1964 – February 22, 2022) was an American singer, songwriter, and poet. First becoming prominent as the lead singer for the early grunge band Screaming Trees, he was also known as a member of Queens of the St ...

* Lisa Germano

2008

* Tori Amos * Howe Gelb

2009

* K's Choice * Travis * CocoRosie * Flogging Molly *

Milow Jonathan Ivo Gilles Vandenbroeck (; born 14 July 1981), known professionally as Milow, is a Belgian singer-songwriter. Milow released his debut album, ''The Bigger Picture'', in 2006 on his own label Homerun Records. The fourth single from that ...

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2010

* Tom McRae * Nouvelle Vague * Paolo Conte *

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* Staff Benda Bilili * Vaya Con Dios * La Bottine Souriante * James Walsh *

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* Tindersticks *

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* Joan as Police Woman * Carolina Chocolate Drops * Harper Simon *

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& The Souls Alive Orchestra with Special Guest

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References

External links

*{{Official, https://www.festivaldranouter.be/
Folk music centre Dranouter
Music festivals established in 1975 Folk festivals in Belgium Heuvelland Summer events in Belgium