Le Guess Who? 2026 line-up revealed

After previously announcing festival curators aja monet, KMRU, Los Thuthanaka and Tropical Fuck Storm, as well as the special program 24 HOUR DUB, and performances by a.o. Yasuaki Shimizu, Dirty Three, Ibex Band, Lillian Allen and Ángeles Toledano - Le Guess Who? has posted their full 5th-8th November line-up.

Le Guess Who? is an annual gathering of eclectic music lovers and a celebration of sound in Utrecht. We are happy to collaborate with the festival for the third year in a row, hosting a pop-up radio station alongside COSMOS. Once again stationed in the festival's main hub, TivoliVredenburg, we will be inviting artists from the lineup - and some special guests - for chats and to play some music. Tune in live via our website, or come say hi at the festival.

Line-up Announcement

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’.

See the full festival program here.

A first look at the COSMOS x Refuge Worldwide line-up: 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

Remaining Day Passes are on sale now; Friday Passes and 4-Day Passes are sold out. 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).

Photos by Tengbeh Kamara and Lisanne Lentink.