The Week-End Fest is making itself at home in the space in between. From 5 to 7 November 2026, it will take place in Cologne – at the Stadtgarten and the Jaki. Now in its 15th edition, it once again invites artists who refuse to be pigeonholed musically and for whom, this year in particular, a sense of geographical rootlessness is surprisingly common.
Nowhere in particular
The cosmopolitan Anna Domino – born in Japan, raised in the USA and Canada, and who eventually settled in Brussels – is playing her first concert in 15 years (with a little help from Tuxedomoon members Blaine L. Reininger and Steven Brown, as well as Cologne-based musicians Jorik Bergman and Hendrik Eichler). Dagmar Zuniga is a New Yorker. She recorded the raw folk sound of her latest album on a cassette recorder whilst travelling between Norway, Georgia, and Greece. Hong Kong, Bristol, and Utrecht are the stops along the way for gyrofield, who brings her complex, futuristic drum & bass to the stage. Peki Momés, who divides her time between Turkey and Leipzig, uses her music –a blend of disco, funk, jazz, city pop and Afrobeat – to make migration not just a theme, but a musical principle.
East & West + Singles
In Filth Your Mystery Is Kingdom / Far Smile Peasant In Yellow Music
Suspension Of Belief
Peki Momés
These were just four examples. The rest are just as impressive: Valentina Magaletti & upsammy, Moin, Dopplereffekt, Daddy G & Don Letts, Gilles Peterson, ML Buch, Opek, ZENA, GENA w/ Liv.e & Karriem Riggins, Elektronic für Alle, E.P.I.Q., DJ LoveCatt, Hyperlove. (You can find the full, up-to-date programme on the Week-End Fest website.)
