New names announced for Explore the North Festival 2025!
28 May 2025

The Earliest Bird Tickets for our festival weekend on November 21, 22, and 23 are available for just four more days – and to celebrate, here’s a fresh lineup announcement for you: Pitou, LUWTEN & Naaz, Wild Classical Music Ensemble, NAH, Sorvina, and De Verwonderkamer are all coming to Leeuwarden this November!

With Pitou, LUWTEN, and Naaz, the festival weekend will be a triple hit – their joint performance will take place in the stunning Grote Kerk.
Wild Classical Music Ensemble is an experimental punk group with brutally honest songs and multilingual lyrics that are as bold as they are disarming. NAH will tear through genres at top speed, delivering tracks that balance between rage and playfulness.
Sorvina brings alternative hip-hop with touches of soul, jazz, and poetic spoken word – performed with such authenticity and vibrancy that you’ll find yourself sitting a little straighter, feeling refreshed, uplifted, and hopeful.
In a new edition of the annual residency project De Verwonderkamer, Frisian and Flemish makers come together to create brand-new work. This year, the participants will use De laatste dagen van de dorpsgek (The Last Days of the Village Fool) by Anne Goaitske Breteler as their starting point. Is there something hopeful hidden in the absurd?
This project is a collaboration between deBuren, the Flemish-Dutch house for culture and debate, and Explore the North.

Get your Earliest Bird ticket for just €40.50 until this Saturday.
Young people up to age 25 and students can get a full weekend ticket at an even more affordable price.

Grab your Earliest Bird ticket now via the button below!

The Festivalprogramme so far

Joost Oomen, de Poezieboys & Explore the North – GEESTEN / Pitou, LUWTEN & Naaz / Saartje van Camp / De Toegift / Mary Lattimore / NAH / Wild Classical Music Ensemble / Sorvina URLAND – This is how / de Verwonderkamer Mensen Zeggen Dingen – NOT A PROTEST, AN ACT OF LOVE