#TSF20
June 12th - June 14th, 2020, Berlin - Mitte. www.torstrassenfestival.de Torstraßen Festival is not a street fair. TSF is a music festival at heart.
but it is also about community. A musical matinee showcase with a current look into the local and international music scenes that encourage: discovery, diversity and community with a cross-genre soundtrack. We promote a mix of old and new structures in our neighborhood Mitte and rally the neighbors to add their own spice. We see ourselves and our festival goers as explorers, who are not afraid to
but it is also about community. A musical matinee showcase with a current look into the local and international music scenes that encourage: discovery, diversity and community with a cross-genre soundtrack. We promote a mix of old and new structures in our neighborhood Mitte and rally the neighbors to add their own spice. We see ourselves and our festival goers as explorers, who are not afraid to
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It‘s out! Shunaji s new single! „Black Girl Blues“.
Black Girl Blues by Shunaji, the first single from the artist's fourth EP out in 2022, self-released under Solo Recordings.Cast:Shunaji as Host, Guest Star a...
A programme featuring local artists (just as TSF), organized by one of our team (Andrea) and previous stage manager and performing artist (Josephinex) is happening over the summer at Picnic FM at ZK/U - Zentrum für Kunst und Urbanistik.
Find out about this Sunday's programme, and the full overview in the two flyers below.
TSF colleagues, stage managers and artists of past TSF editions are involved in the upcoming edition of Picnic FM: Listen to music together in the same space, spread apart just a little bit, made possible through the old school magic of FM transmission. Tomorrow, Friday, late afternoon/early evening at ZK/U - Zentrum für Kunst und Urbanistik in Moabit.
Lucrecia Dalt will do a commented listening session in anticipation of her new album "no era sólida", out on Sept 11 on RVNT Intl.
There will be a performance by HYENAZ and music selected by Sarah Farina.
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🖼 10 years of Torstraßen Festival, online exhibition
"This year we had a co-op with Ableton & Kompakt Records from Köln because they were celebrating their 20th Birthday. We invited multi-instrumentalist Gregor Schwellenbach to perform the re-worked Kompakt Records electronic dance classics which he had turned into chamber music. Kompakt themselves said about Schwellenbach’s re-recorded tracks … “radically shifting up some of the numerous evergreens hiding in our back catalogue. Aficionados of musical synthesis aren't the only ones likely to rub their ears in wonder when celebrated techno bangers suddenly drop as beatless, melancholic piano miniatures - …” It was quite a performance and the first time we used the FOYER in the Volksbühne as a stage. I loved it! it was intimate but overflowing and I think another curating highlight as it became an element in our process. Adding these contrasts in the festival curation became an important aspect - as well as the freshness and relevant importance that the performance gave to the fest."
Melissa Perales, TSF curator
🎹 Gregor Schwellenbach
📍 Volksbühne Berlin
📅 TSF 2013
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🖼 10 years of Torstraßen Festival, online exhibition
"This year was extremely hot, and you can see it in the audience! not only because Devon Welsh (Majical Cloudz) was delivering an emotionally intense set that all the festival visitors were seated on the floor but we had an extremely hot festival day and audience had already done some heavy walking around Mitte, but if you see the audience closeup in photo 2 they were in love and having a great time like most of us felt during this show. Once again a super special fangirl year for me"
Melissa Perales, TSF curator
🎤 Devon Welsh
📍 Volksbühne Berlin
📅 TSF 2017
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🖼 10 years of Torstraßen Festival
Here at TSF we're big fan of OSTMOST, a long - term partner of the festival since many years 🍎
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🖼 The festival is over, but our online exhibition is still going!
"This is Nahawa Doumbia she played the festival in 2017. One of the great things I love about curating our festival is that there is room for all kinds of styles and genres of Music - and we also try when we are lucky that year to honor those who have have been creating for a life time and still have so much to give - Like Nahawa does, we had no common language and that played a funny roll in back stage antics but we did all understand and have in common the love of music and what it does to people emotionally. This is something she added to our festival and especially for me being there as a fan and curator. I felt really blessed and honored and could see from the audiences reaction which was full and sweaty from that we had succeeded in that summer in the Roter Salon to experience the magic. "
Melissa Perales , TSF curator
🎤 Nahawa DOUMBIA
📍 Volksbühne Berlin
📅 TSF 2017
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What's the future of festivals?
Our own Melissa Perales talkin' festivals, our first online edition and the future of live music events 👇
How do you keep the groove as a festival these days? Torstraßen Festival in Berlin, Germany and Focus Wales from Wrexham, UK has chosen a bit different ways,...
Some shots from Leo Luchini's Drive By Serenade
📷 Agatha Powa
Sharing some fotos from my @torstrassenfestival drive-by fundraiser shot by @agathapowa 💕 more soon 👀 thank you for those participating, tuning in and donating !!
CHEERS TO SOLIDARITY ✨
Seit 2017 ist Solidrinks Partner vom Torstraßen festival. Solidrinks ist ein soziales Getränke Unternehmen, das sich für eine offene Gesellschaft einsetzt. Mit SOLIMATE und SOLICOLA erfinden sie Getränkeklassiker neu und fair und unterstützen damit lokale Geflüchteten Initiativen mit einem festen Betrag pro verkaufter Flasche sowie 100% der Gewinne. Ob „Gemeinsam für offene Häfen“ oder „Make Musik Break Borders“: Auf den Solidrinks Flaschenetiketten findet keine übliche Markenwerbung statt. Gemeinsam mit den geförderten Projekten entwickeln sie jedes Jahr neue Labels und Kampagnen und setzen sie sich so im öffentlichen Raum gegen Diskriminierung und Rassismus.
Mehr Infos über Solidrinks: www.solidrinks.de
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🖼 10 years of Torstraßen Festival, online exhibition
"The party of TSF16 was at the same time a perfect and memorable moment. So many artists I loved at the time played the festival, they all came to the party, people who had been to shows during the day gathered all in the ACUD yard and on the dancefloors. DJ Paypal was playing, AWA performed an amazing suprise gig, Tiny Tim was making pizzas .. and then the power cut, electricity was gone for an hour - for the entire block. That was a spectacular and however too early end to a wonderful day. "
Andrea Goetzke , TSF curator
📍 ACUD MACHT NEU
📅 TSF 2016
🖼 10 years of Torstraßen Festival, online exhibition
"To be able to invite my favourite artists to a festival - I have always felt this to be a great privilege and the best part of organizing Torstraßenfestival. Lotic's Heterocetera EP in 2015 was a revelation for me, and how they would gracefully mix these sounds in a DJ set with Beyonce or Rihanna - back then changed the dancefloors for me and I'm forever grateful."
Andrea Goetzke, TSF curator
🔊 Lotic
📅 TSF 2015
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Leo Luchini x NOIZZ.de: get to know more about the charismatic artist behind the final #TSF20 performance 👉 Leo Luchini’s Drive-By Serenade
Wir haben uns mit dem aufstrebenden DIY-Wunder Leo Luchini über seine musikalische Reise unterhalten, die Bedeutung von Queerness und warum Pride und Black Lives Matter schon immer mi...
🖼 10 years of Torstraßen Festival, online exhibition
“As part of the festival team I haven’t seen many of the concerts but I have seen most of the TSF audience! And as far as I can say the TSF crowd is very friendly, well informed about the lineup, full of energy and some of them were even famous! I always had a blast while working for the festival not only because the colleagues I worked with at the counter were ALWAYS full of energy!"
Kirsten Grebasch, TSF team
📅 TSF 2018
📍 ACUD MACHT NEU
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Discover more on our Instagram account 👉 https://www.instagram.com/torstrassenfestival/
🚗 Leo Luchini’s Drive-By Serenade
Ridin' through Berlin on the backseat of a convertible, Leo Luchini will deliver his live performance on Friday June 26th. Follow the performance online from 18 to 20 via Leo's (@sloppy_giuseppe) and TSF own Insta live, or, even better, Dm's your address to Leo and get your own drive by Serenade.
#TSF2020
This year has been a pretty particular one for anyone working in the fields of events, as most of our lives and activities have moved into the URL world druring the past few months.
We gave our little contribution to the discussion on online events via Berliner Zeitung, have a read below 📰
Mit der Fête de la Musique und dem Torstraßen Festival wanderten coronabedingt zwei von Berlins populären Straßenfestivals ins Netz. Als nächstes soll das Popkultur Festival folgen. Doch ist das eine gute Idee?
»Young Fathers, 2015 live at Volksbühne is probably my most vivid memory of our festival. Young Fathers had really just surfaced beyond Scotland and the UK, the audience raised from their seats about 2 or 3 minutes into the performance. Many of them still unfamiliar with the trio yet captivated by their energy within moments. One of the most powerful and sincere performances I’ve ever seen.«
Norman Palm , TSF curator and graphic designer
From our own festival archive, celebrating 10 years of Torstraßen Festival with our online exhibition.
🎤 Young Fathers
📍 Volksbühne Berlin
📅 TSF 2015
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Missed our #TSF2020 edition live from Volksbühne Berlin last week?
You can still enjoy it via ARTE Concert below 👇
Die Berliner Clubkultur steht vor der größten Herausforderung ihrer Geschichte. Seit dem 13. März wurde das gesamte Berliner Nachtleben behördlich stillgeleg...
"When I play Bağlama and the other Turkish instruments, it warms my heart up"
KCRW Berlin had a nice chat with Derya Yildrim, one of the artists who performed for our #TSF2020 online edition. Check it out below 👇
We caught up with the 26-year-old multi instrumentalist in France where she is reuniting with her band to write new material.
From our archive, Melissa Perales, TSF festival veteran, curator and booking agent at the selection duties for our online exhibition:
"5 year edition Idris Ackamoor & Pyramids - the workshop musicians joined them on the stage for a finale! I love that their booker Christoph Linder was dancing in front of us and wearing that Faust T-shirt."
🎤 Idris Ackamoor & The Pyramids
📍 Roter Salon, Volksbühne Berlin
📅TSF 2015
📸 Martin Voss
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Torstraßen Festival presents Leo Luchini’s Drive-By Serenade 🚗
Friday June 26th from 18 to 20, Leo Luchini will deliver a unique performance for #TSF20. From the back of a convertible car, a two hours show on the go, driving across Berlin.
Berliners: DM your streetview location to @sloppy_giuseppe and he’ll swing by your balcony/window/park to deliver the jams. Check the show via Leo's and TSF own Insta live.
The performance aims at raising funds for The Okra Project. Please donate to: http://www.paypal.me/theokraproject
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Starting today, we're launching our #TSF20 online exhibition: a selection of pictures from our personal archive, a chance to go through the history of the festival itself and a chronicle of the various developments in the Berlin pop-cultural underground. Each picture, handpicked by a member of the TSF extended family, has a story to tell. The word goes now to Norman Palm, one of the curator of Torstraßen Festival:
»Definitely one of my favorite performances in TSF history was Black Cracker at Ackerstadtpalast in 2013. It’s a great example of how the festival works in its best moments. The venue, an off-theater in a backyard on Ackerstraße, was not designed for rap shows. Cracker brought a bunch of neon lights and created this minimal stage design around him. It was so intimate, no distractions, Cracker was brilliant and left this tiny audience mesmerized.«
🎤 black cracker
📍 Acker Stadt Palast
📅TSF 2013
Head to our Instagram page for more: https://www.instagram.com/torstrassenfestival/
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Just few hours before United We Stream | Torstraßen Festival live from Volksbühne!
First ones to go tonight will be twee punk trio Shybits: get to know them better via Berlin In Stereo 👇
#TSF2020 #UnitedWeStream
With their name, Shybits, may convey petiteness – but they're neither shy nor small. In fact, they've gathered praises from acts as big as Gurr, Art Brut, Drangsal and Ilgen Nur, to name a f
Today is the day ✨
📺 Tune in via United We Stream/ ARTE Concert tonight from 19:00 to join the 10th edition of Torstraßen Festival, we'll be live streaming from the Roter and Grüner Salon of the Volksbühne Berlin.
More info 👉 United We Stream | Torstraßen Festival live from Volksbühne
Feat. Shybits, Point No Point, Nansea, Amigdala , Derya Yıldırım , Aquarian Tatiana Heuman Qeei, Ghettoraid , Early Labyrinth
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The Hamburg singer and multi-instrumentalist Derya Yıldırım started learning how to play a variety of instruments, such as piano, guitar, ud, saxophone and bağlama, since a very young age. From 2013 to 2016 she studied at the Hamburg University of Music and continued to study Bağlama with Taner Akyol at the University of the Arts in Berlin. Yildirim re-works the rich traditional Turkish poetry and brings it into the future, without anyway losing awareness of the past.
📅 June 15th, from 19:00 to 24:00 United We Stream | Torstraßen Festival live from Volksbühne
Stream via 👉 https://arte.tv/unitedwestream
#TSF2020 #UnitedWeStream
In naming her music projects – Soft Grid, Dropout Patrol and Point No Point – Jana Sotzko doesn't exactly suggest a surplus of determination. And so her latest post-rock collages bring us back into a wonderfully aimless world of sound, full of fleeting ideas, wavering emotions and multilayered experiments.
📅 June 15th, from 19:00 to 24:00 United We Stream | Torstraßen Festival live from Volksbühne
Stream via 👉 https://arte.tv/unitedwestream
#TSF2020 #UnitedWeStream
The Britsh-Italian-South-African band Shybits consists of Berlin-based buddies Liam, Piero and Meg. The bits of shyness suit the trio superbly as they create a number of peppy twee-punk hits, most recently released on Duchess Box Records, home of the somewhat more prominent Berliner garage-rock phenomenon Gurr.
📅 June 15th, from 19:00 to 24:00 - United We Stream | Torstraßen Festival live from Volksbühne
Stream via 👉 https://arte.tv/unitedwestream
#TSF2020 #UnitedWeStream
Her experience on trumpet and drums in the experimental duo Ricardo Cometa explains Tatiana Heuman Qeei's free-flowing, intuitive approach to electronic music. In her audio-visual live sets, the Argentinian producer and performer combines vocals with manual and programmed percussion and hypnotic video art, creating a contemporary hybrid pop Gesamtkunstwerk.
Heuman is an integral part of the experimental, anti-hegemonic and multidisciplinary collective T R R U E N O, which recently shifted its base from Buenos Aires to Berlin.
📅 June 15th, from 19:00 to 24:00 - United We Stream | Torstraßen Festival live from Volksbühne
Stream via 👉 https://arte.tv/unitedwestream
#TSF2020 #UnitedWeStream
A little treat for all our fellow musicians, producers and music lovers 🎁
Get your chance to win a free copy of the iZotope Music Production Suite 3! Like this post and answer to the below question:
When was the first edition of Torstraßen Festival?
Reply in comment, we’ll announce the winner on Monday June 15th. Good luck 🤞
Young Lychee, jpeg.love, $ombi, Tamila, Turk & Fin, Souci and DJ F***s Himself are »eight freaks who love ghetto house«, as they put it. The genre often gets called out for its grotesquely sexualized lyrics, but Ghettoraid steer it in a progressive, sex-positive direction. The Berliner collective’s first compilation, Ghettoraid Vol. 1, is highly recommended – especially as an engraved USB stick.
📅 June 15th, from 19:00 to 24:00: United We Stream | Torstraßen Festival live from Volksbühne
Stream via 👉 https://arte.tv/unitedwestream
#TSF2020 #UnitedWeStream
Aphex Twin, Nina Kraviz, Call Super, Objekt and Avalon Emerson are all fans of Aquarian. Why's that? The Canadian Berliner's raw, unrestrained productions blow up the dancefloor, opening a portal to a horrific, fully digitized fairy-tale world. Frantic rave dystopias built on the remnants of Detroit, London and Berlin, most recently released on trailblazing labels such as Houndstooth, UNO NYC and Bedouin Records.
📅 June 15th, from 19:00 to 24:00: United We Stream | Torstraßen Festival live from Volksbühne
Stream via 👉 https://arte.tv/unitedwestream
#TSF2020 #UnitedWeStream
For Torstraßen Festival, Early Labyrinth has assembled a multi-headed community to deliver a press statement from their Necropolitical (Dis-)Organization. Self-described as »thematically punk«, they juxtapose pleasant soul, pop and funk sounds with brilliant, confrontational lyrics, taking on the isms of our age with form and function in conflict.
📅 June 15th, from 19:00 to 24:00: United We Stream | Torstraßen Festival live from Volksbühne
Stream via 👉 https://arte.tv/unitedwestream
#TSF2020 #UnitedWeStream
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In a festival of up and coming ones to watch, Tara Nome Doyle is emerging as the cream of the Torstraßen Festival 2019 crop. She's opening the festival, playing at 14:00 at Grüner Salon.
Londoner Shunaji will be making her Berlin debut at Torstraßen Festival 2019. She's playing the Roter Salon @ 21:00. Grab your tickets today: https://bit.ly/31Aaqva
Only one week to go! Can't wait for Torstraßen Festival 2019 x Independent Label Market #ILMBERLIN #TSF19
duendita for the win with this beautiful Torstraßen Festival 2019 treaser video. We're so looking forward to hosting her on the iconic Volksbühne Berlin stage.
The Chap are playing Torstraßen Festival 2019. Do it.
Berlin shredders Jealous are going to do what they do best - shred, obvs - at Torstraßen Festival 2019.
Ch-ch-ch-changes: Die Wände are playing @Torstraßen Festival 2019.
It's not gonna get any knotier than Chris Imler @ Torstraßen Festival 2019.
Holiday Sidewinder's Torstraßen Festival 2019 set is guaranteed to sizzle 🍳.
Jason Harvey has some ideas he'd like to share with you at Torstraßen Festival 2019
Festival veternans Neukölln Country Club are back at it tonight at the Torstraßen Festival 2018 Opening. With an announced lists of guests including Dandy Deniz, Dena (playing #tsf18 at Ballhaus Berlin), Grip Tight, Lia Lia (playing #tsf18 at Prassnik), Magic Island, and Yu Ching Huang + a few surprises up their sleeve, the stage is set for a fantastic start to forever.
MIKEY. is channeling all of the positive energy ahead of their performance at Grüner Salon at 17:00 as part of Torstraßen Festival 2018.
Shout it from the rooftops: houaïda is playing new festival venue Kunsthaus KuLe at 17:00 at Torstraßen Festival 2018.
Big new asset coming in hot from the Al Cam. We don't want to cry wolf on this, but tickets are moving fast for Super Sunday: Alex Cameron, Lido Pimienta, Itaca - get yours today.
Keep your eyes open and you might spot Leoprrrds at Torstraßen Festival 2018. Here's a hint: they're playing at Kaffee Burger at 16:00.
Countdown Forever! ∞ We'll start on Friday, we'll grow big on Saturday and we'll meet again on Sunday at Volksbühne. ∞ Soundtrack by Jinka, Tickets & Information via www.torstrassenfestival.de
Dig Martha Rose at Z-Bar at 18:00!
It's all true: CATNAPP has been spotted, and she's playing Torstraßen Festival 2018.
Song of the summer: DENA is playing at Ballhaus Berlin as part of this year's Exberliner stage.
This teaser really seals the deal: Sequoyah Tiger are playing at Ballhaus Berlin as part of the Exberliner stage at Torstraßen Festival 2018. Get your tickets now: bit.ly/1P8sWgA
Soft as Snow are down to hang at Torstraßen Festival 2018.
AG Form feel that their Torstraßen Festival 2018 is going to be either a little lit or a lot lit, but one way another it is most definitely gonna be lit.
<3 Come hang with LIA LIA at Torstraßen Festival 2018 <3
Join our quick walk from the Grüner Salon passing Kaffee Burger, Prassnik, St. Oberholz and ending in our festival centre at Acud Kunsthaus. #tsf17
JFDR live at Grüner Salon.
Live from Acud!
Leila Akinyi checks in ahead of her Torstraßen Festival 2017 performance at St. Oberholz:
Wait for it...wait for it....catch Perera Elsewhere live at TSF Super Sunday: Perera Elsewhere, Oum Shatt, Magic Island at BABYLON. Sat / Sun combination tickets on sale now at http://bit.ly/1P8sWgA
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