Gaume Jazz Festival

Gaume Jazz Festival - Rossignol Tintigny - 8 > 10 August 2025

The Gaume Jazz Festival is celebrating its 40th anniversary!

When the Gaume Jazz Festival was born in 1985, no one imagined the scale and scope that the event would take not only in Belgium but also in the life of European jazz and more generally in the history of the modern jazz scene. With an edifying 1985 - 2024 guestbook and 40 editions without interruption, guided by the passion for music and the awareness of its role in our lives, the Gaume Jazz team is preparing with a certain emotion, ... the 41st edition of the Gaume Jazz Festival in Rossignol-Tintigny on August 8, 9 and 10, 2025!

• Gaume Jazz Festival 2025: 27 concerts - 16 Belgian productions + 11 foreign productions - 120 professional artists from 12 nationalities - 3 new releases - 8 Belgian premieres - 4 discovery concerts from Flanders "Jazz at the Neighbors"

• Gaume Jazz OFF: from July 25 to August 1, outside Rossignol - 10 concerts

• 2 parallel educational workshops: residential jazz workshop in Gaume for amateur musicians & creative workshop "Les P'tits Gaumais du Jazz" for children

Gaume Jazz, an ambitious project serving jazz and audiences:

The festival has always stood out for its adherence to a few priorities that have forged a strong, unique, and courageous cultural identity:

• Quality jazz & new jazz(wo)men;
• A culture of discovery;
• Stages open to creations by musicians (often young people from Wallonia-Brussels);
• A broadened audience for jazz and new audiences;
• A festive spirit combining artistic quality with a family atmosphere in a rural setting;
• A place for professionals to meet and exchange ideas.
• A loyal, growing but not excessive audience

Gaume Jazz now has a loyal audience, growing over the years but also careful not to fall into excess. In Rossignol, several thousand listeners (connoisseurs, local audiences, a mix of young and old, families, tourists passing through, and sympathetic visitors, etc.) mingle in a rare conviviality and a human-scale atmosphere. In the 12-hectare park, people wander from one stage to another, relaxed and unwinding, meeting artists, enjoying local products, meeting friends, and sharing the pleasure of precious moments without stress, in a rural atmosphere close to nature.

Gaume Jazz 2025: Key Features

Powerful music, rich with human encounters and the flavors of continents

In the dizzying modern world we live in, it is essential to place people at the center of our projects. Among the 27 carefully selected groups this summer, many are led by artists whose approach seeks to create new human connections between diverse artistic worlds, different languages, or different cultures, each with their own profound singularity, talent, experience, and individual qualities: Auster Loo / Tom Bourgeois / Reggie Washington / Nige Gray / Mâäk / Lysis Trio / the Miyazaki-Wolf duo / Naïssam Jalal / Children of Simone / Impérial Quartet / Stéphane Galland & The Rhythm Hunters / ... welcome to these artists from all walks of life, who embrace the shared cultural identities of other countries and offer interwoven compositions, rich in sounds conducive to poignant emotions.

Among these borderless, intergenerational projects, generating new connections, what a pleasure to inhale the "crossing scents of continents"!

For its 40th anniversary, the Gaume Jazz 2025 tours will be eclectic: Japan with the koto of Aki Sato and Mexico with Osvaldo Hernandez, accompanied by Simon Leleux; Japan again with the talent of Alex Koo, invited by Tom Bourgeois; the USA, the Caribbean, and Africa brought together by Reggie as part of Black Lives; Tunisian pianist Wajdi Riahi; the Japanese-French duo Miyazaki-Wolf; North India with Naïssam Jalal; and Stéphane Galland, accompanied by the Tunisian scents of Riahi and the Japanese scents of Shoko Igorahi.

Initiating new works is a constant theme of the festival: there will be three in 2025:

• Aurélie Charneux: As much a creator as a performer, Aurélie delves into improvisation and composition, virtuosically blending Eastern music, swing, and Balkan sounds, creating a liberated and fresh language.

• Quentin Liégeois, a Liège guitarist who fell into jazz as a teenager, received the Django d'Or Young Talent Award (2009). Since then, he has been very active on the Belgian and European scene, both as an accompanist and soloist, alongside internationally renowned artists. The jazz world is eager to discover his new compositions in a trio format.

• Laurent Blondiau + Bakanaï with Les P’tits Gaumais du Jazz: Bringing together their talents and worlds with Les P’tits Gaumais, Laurent Blondiau + Bakanaï will offer a week of creativity for young ears, uncovering jazz creations with a strong "young audience" sensibility.

"Salut les Voisins - Jazz bij de Buren - Jazz at the Neighbours": 4 discovery concerts from Flanders

The festival will join a new project, supported by a partnership with the Flemish (JazzLab / VI.BE / Jazz Leuven) and Wallonia-Brussels (Fazz, WBM, etc.) communities, to welcome four emerging projects from Flanders worthy of encouragement: Children of Simone / Kin Gajo / Elis Floreen and the Bord du Nord quartet will take their first steps in the south of Belgium but, above all, will open up new soundscapes.

Familiar names and numerous innovative new projects, all of them high-quality.

• BLACK LIVES is among the flagship projects: voted "Best International Group 2024" by Jazz Magazine & Jazz News (FR) / "People of the Earth" is "Coup de Cœur 2024" in Le Monde (FR) / "People of Earth" is the "Best Film of 2024" in Le Soir (BE) / "Black Lives" was nominated "International Group of the Year" - German Jazz Award 2023 (DE) – At Rossignol, the line-up will be enriched by the arrival of two new singers, and not the least of them: Catherine Russell - nominated for the Grammy Awards for Best Jazz Vocal Album 2025 (the only singer of Steely Dan, David Bowie, etc.) and Georgia Heers (a new generation singer who sings with the greatest in New York).

• CHINA MOSES: She is renowned for her famous show on TSF-Jazz, but also for her live performances, intense immersions into a kaleidoscopic world of Black American culture.

• A drummer brimming with creativity, Stéphane Galland is one of those artists who experience a passionate love affair with his instrument. With "RHYTHM HUNTERS," he explores other continents and new grooves for an unforgettable adventure.

• As already mentioned: many new projects will take you on a journey through unusual and unprecedented landscapes: Miyazaki & Wolf - 'Ndiaz - Imperial Quartet – Nige Gray - Mohs - [Na] – Nige Gray

• A few new projects from renowned artists in our region have been selected for their talent and/or their relevance, but above all for the diversity of their jazz styles: Olivier Collette, Tom Bourgeois, Wajdi Riahi, Mâäk, Eve Beuvens, Jean-François Foliez, etc.

• And as usual, the festival will also feature some unusual projects like Fanfakids, or local ones like the Mandarine trio.

Because we've said it before and we'll say it again: "All Jazz - Jazz for All" with powerful music rich in human encounters.

Info & Presales: www.gaume-jazz.com