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Productions
Merodefestival creates stage productions, installations, tailor-made concepts, albums and films.
Stage productions
Concerts and performances by Merodefestival, available to book for cultural centres, festivals and special venues.
New album and tour, 2027–2028 seasonRhagium InquisitorAndries Boone, live as a quartet or sextetOn his fourth solo album, Andries Boone fuses acoustic and electronic worlds. Fiddle, octave fiddle, mandolin, nyckelharpa and baroque musette meet synths and sequencers, inspired by Scandinavian and Breton folk music, the hunting horn tradition and the electronica of the eighties and nineties.View the production →
Christmas programme 2027, 2028O KerstnachtEléonor & ensemble, with Philippe Laloy, Vincent Noiret and Maarten DecombelMedieval Christmas carols in a new light: Eléonor unearths forgotten songs from the Low Countries, in contemporary Dutch, somewhere between early music, jazz and folk.View the production →
New album and tour, 2027–2029Naragonia & The Ship of FoolsNaragonia, with wind section and rhythm sectionWho is aboard the ship of fools today? After their sold-out anniversary concert, Naragonia has grown into a nine-strong ship with horns and a rhythm section. An evening between intimate songs of displacement and music full of resilience and dance.View the production →
Installations
Music and images that give a place its story, at heritage sites and in nature reserves.
Music installation, LangdorpHuis der WeemoedMerodefestival, with Toon Van Mierlo, Reineke Van Hooreweghe and Sophie JannaIn a former mortuary house beside the Sint-Pieterskerk in Langdorp, a mystical film and heavenly sounds offer comfort in grief and farewell.View the installation →
Installation project, 2026–2027Huis der Weemoed: seven places, seven songsMerodefestival, with Laura Cortese, Toon Van Mierlo, Ward Dhoore, Reineke Van Hooreweghe and Bert HuysentruytSeven heritage sites in the Merode Landscape Park, each with its own song for a stage of life, sung by seven female voices from living folk music traditions.View the installation →
Listen and watch
Albums, a podcast and films that Merodefestival helped create, to listen to, watch and order.
Playlist, 2025Derroll 100Eight songwriters on Derroll Adams, produced by Laura CorteseOn 27 November 2025, banjo man Derroll Adams would have turned one hundred. Laura Cortese asked eight songwriters from Europe and North America each to write a new song inspired by his life and songs, from Meskerem Mees and Kaia Kater to Rowan Rheingans and Johannes Wannyn.View the project →
Album, CD and vinylThe Sound of the AbbeyThirteen artists and ensembles in residence at the Abdij van ParkThree years of musical residencies at Abdij van Park, just outside Leuven: thirteen artists and ensembles each created a piece for a spot in the abbey, from the library and the cloister to the upper choir, and recorded it on location.View the project →
Playlist, book and CDOde aan de MerodeNine artists and ensembles in residence in the MerodeNine artists, duos and ensembles from the Flemish folk and world music scene went on residency in the Merode. Their journey of discovery through nature and heritage produced fifteen new pieces, each one an ode to the Merode.View the project →
Podcast, 4 episodesThe walking podcastMerodefestival, with Lennaert Maes, Jochen Smets and Bert HuysentruytDuring a walk in the Merode Landscape Park, folk musicians talk about their music and play a few songs along the way, in nature or at heritage sites.View the project →
Documentary, 3 partsThe traditional pubs of the MerodeMerodefestival, with singer-songwriter Lennaert MaesSinger-songwriter Lennaert Maes visits three old traditional pubs in the Merode and writes a song for each landlord: three moving portraits of around 25 minutes each.View the project →
Tailor-made concepts
Concepts you can book with us, brought to life at your location.
Tailor-made concept, solo in a chapelKlanken in de kapelMerodefestival, with solo musicians from folk, world music, jazz and classicalOne musician, a chapel and a small audience: a short acoustic evening where music and silence meet. We take care of everything, from liaising with the chapel to coordination on the day itself.View the concept →
Tailor-made concept, walking with live musicMusical walksMerodefestival, with acoustic musicians from folk and world musicA walk through the landscape, with short performances by acoustic musicians along the way. At your location or in the Merode, fully organised by us, also as a team-building or client event.View the concept →