DJ Tiësto Withdraws From Super Bowl Performance Due to ‘Family Emergency’ – First Dutch Artist to Miss Major NFL Event

DJ Tiësto Withdraws From Super Bowl Performance Due to ‘Family Emergency’ – First Dutch Artist to Miss Major NFL Event

DJ Tiësto from Breda will not perform during the Super Bowl next Sunday. The singer is withdrawing due to a ‘family emergency’, he said on Thursday evening. Every year the biggest artists in the world perform at the Super Bowl. During the warm-up and the breaks, the Breda native was supposed to perform his music … Read more

Postponed Fireworks Shows in Tilburg Draw Crowds of All Ages

Postponed Fireworks Shows in Tilburg Draw Crowds of All Ages

Many people still watched the postponed fireworks shows in the Reeshofpark and at the Piushaven in Tilburg on Monday evening. According to the municipality, the fireworks shows attracted audiences of all ages. ‘Great’ and a ‘day later’, but we don’t regret that. What a show,” people responded on social media. The municipality of Tilburg decided … Read more

Tilburg New Year’s Eve Fireworks Shows Canceled due to Strong Winds: Eindhoven and Efteling Continue with Plans

Tilburg New Year’s Eve Fireworks Shows Canceled due to Strong Winds: Eindhoven and Efteling Continue with Plans

There will be no fireworks shows in Tilburg at seven o’clock. Shows on New Year’s Eve were planned in two places in the city: at the Piushaven and in the Reeshofpark. Because strong gusts of wind are expected, according to a spokesperson for the municipality, it is irresponsible to allow the shows to go ahead. … Read more

Challenges Facing Dickensnight in Helmond: Rising Costs and Regulations Threaten Event’s Future

Challenges Facing Dickensnight in Helmond: Rising Costs and Regulations Threaten Event’s Future

1/6 Charles Dickens himself also thinks it is all becoming a bit expensive (Photo: Alice van der Plas) It is not due to the number of visitors. Every year, Dickensnight attracts between 7,500 and 10,000 visitors in the Brandevoort district of Helmond. But the atmospheric festival is under pressure after more than twenty years. Laws … Read more

Sep Jansen and Jasmijn Torrico’s Seventh Place Finish at Junior Eurovision Song Contest 2022

Sep Jansen and Jasmijn Torrico’s Seventh Place Finish at Junior Eurovision Song Contest 2022

Tilburg’s Sep Jansen (13) finished seventh at the Junior Eurovision Song Contest in Nice on Sunday. Together with Jasmijn Torrico (14) he sang ‘Holding On To You’, an upbeat dance number. The festival was won by France, as the young duo had predicted. On Sunday afternoon they were the last of the sixteen participating countries. … Read more

18th Edition of GLOW Art Festival Lights Up Eindhoven: Impact on Electricity Consumption and New Features

18th Edition of GLOW Art Festival Lights Up Eindhoven: Impact on Electricity Consumption and New Features

The lights will turn on again this weekend in Eindhoven for the 18th edition of the GLOW art festival. There are 24 works of art to admire on the five-kilometer route through the city center. All that lighting will cost more electricity again this year. During the 9-day festival, the light artworks consumed 4,750 kilowatt … Read more

The Big Bang: De Rijten’s Victory at Brabantsedag and the Demolition of Their Prize-Winning Car

The Big Bang: De Rijten’s Victory at Brabantsedag and the Demolition of Their Prize-Winning Car

A severed head, a dislocated horse and the bicycle with ET, from the movie of the same name. Furthermore, many rods, tubes and planks. On Monday afternoon, there was not much left of the car with which Vriendenkring De Rijten won the Brabantsedag the day before. Three months of work demolished and removed in one … Read more

Redhead Days Festival: YouTube Star Peet Montzingo Joins Hundreds of Redheads from Around the World at the Oldest and Largest Redhead Celebration

Redhead Days Festival: YouTube Star Peet Montzingo Joins Hundreds of Redheads from Around the World at the Oldest and Largest Redhead Celebration

In the center you can see YouTube star Peet MontzingoRedhead Days festival Next 1/2 In the middle you see YouTube star Peet Montzingo Hundreds of redheads gathered this weekend at the Redhead Days in the Spoorpark in Tilburg. The visitors from more than eighty different countries celebrated together that they have red hair. Because this … Read more

A Love Story at Sziget: How Sofie and Bastiaan Found Each Other at the Hungarian Pop Festival

A Love Story at Sziget: How Sofie and Bastiaan Found Each Other at the Hungarian Pop Festival

Sofie (28) from Volkel and Bastiaan (29) from Tilburg are back at the place where their special love story began a year ago: the Sziget pop festival in Hungary. She posted a message on Instagram asking if anyone wanted to join her. One of her friends had dropped out, so she had one ticket left. … Read more

Pretending to Drum for Coldplay: Meet Dwight Heitzer, the Puppeteer Drummer

Pretending to Drum for Coldplay: Meet Dwight Heitzer, the Puppeteer Drummer

Dwight Heitzer (23) from Tilburg has a special part-time job. The student appears as a drummer on stage at the live concerts of the world-famous band Coldplay in Amsterdam. The prettiest? He does that without drumming. “I pretend,” he says in the radio program Afslag Zuid. “I playback on the drums.” Written by Ron Vorstermans … Read more