Rotterdam Bluegrass Festival invites you to enjoy three days of free music in Rotterdam. Rev yourself up for some bluegrass and old-time sounds, with banjos, angel voices and light-fingered, high-energy tunes.
Bluegrass bands from the near and far
You’ll forget you’re in Rotterdam with the mesmerising sounds of traditional bluegrass bands from Texas, Kansas, Kentucky, the Great Smoky Mountains on the Tennessee and North Carolina border, Virginia, from high up in the mountains of Appalachia to the Mississippi Delta and beyond.
As in the southern states of the USA, the fertile playground of bluegrass is very much alive in Europe too. European countries like the Netherlands, Finland, Germany, the UK and Italy are typically represented with the broad line-up. The bandstand at Pijnackerplein will be filled with bands possessing poetic names.
Rotterdam Bluegrass Festival 2025 line-up
The Devil Makes Three
The Brothers Comatose
Reverend Peyton’s Big Damn Band
Nick Shoulders
Jake Vaadeland & The Sturgeon River Boys
Brennen Leigh & Joshua Hedley
Tim Knol & Blue Grass Boogiemen
Jake Blount
Pert Near Sandstone
Allison de Groot & Tatiana Hargreaves
Angry Zeta
Chicken Wire Empire
Daddy Long Legs
Maurice van Hoek & Bertolf
Addie Levy
Creekbed Carter Hogan
Jourdan Thibodeaux et les Rôdailleurs
Yes Ma'am
Bab L’ Bluz
Pixie and the Partygrass Boys
Radim Zenkl & Ondra Kozák
Dom Glynn & His Sunday Best
Taff Rapids
Blue Forest Pickers
The Vaudevillian
The New West
Renegade Bandits
Eye-opening bluegrass crossovers
Sometimes bluegrass crossovers can really open our eyes to new perspectives in music. At this event, you’ll hear not only traditional bluegrass but also rock ‘n’ roll, rockabilly, hillbilly, Dixieland, ragtime, country, country-blues, old-time, jazz and even a dash of heavy metal and punk.
Rotterdam Bluegrass Festival timetable
The timetable of the Rotterdam Bluegrass Festival is as follows: