
Rock Werchter Festival is an annual music festival held in the village of Werchter, near Leuven, Belgium, since 1976 and is a large sized rock music festival. Rock Werchter is Belgium’s biggest music festival. Four days and four stages, with the biggest headliners, young talents, raging rockers, incredible singer-songwriters, new names, and the coolest beats around. Rock Werchter deliberately builds its line-up across all genres.
Rock Werchter is a unique experience. The line-up of artists is always world-class, the conditions exceptional, and that unique festival feeling omnipresent. Rock Werchter is a multi-awardwinning international hit and a regular fixture in every music lover’s diary.
The festival started in 1974 as a one-day event with performances from Banzai and Kandahar, but over the years it has evolved to become one of Belgium’s largest music festivals. Originally it was a double-festival, called “Torhout-Werchter”, with two festival areas at different sites in Belgium: one in Werchter and one in Torhout. In 1999, the festival dropped the Torhout site and since then has taken place only in Werchter. Since 2003 Werchter has been a 4-day festival, as it was sold by owner Herman Schueremans to American organizers Live Nation. Schueremans however remains the main organiser of the event. The festival is organized every first weekend of the summer vacation in Belgium (last weekend of June or the first of July).
MUMFORD & SONS
THE WAR ON DRUGS
The Lumineers
Kasabian
Elvis Costello & The Imposters with Charlie Sexton
Zwangere Guy
Yong Yello
The Prodigy
JADE
Loyle Carner
The Vaccines
All Them Witches
Balu Brigada
Blood Incantation
Tom Smith
Dylan Gossett
Yard Act
Bente
Monza
Midnight Generation
PUP
Karen Dió
La Lom
Basht.
Ben Ellis
THE XX
LEWIS CAPALDI
Teddy Swims
Royel Otis
The Last Dinner Party
Wolf Alice
Kingfishr
Charlotte de Witte
FKA twigs
Franz Ferdinand
Viagra Boys
Social Distortion
Good Neighbours
Lauren Spencer Smith
Agnes Obel
Kae Tempest
Paris Paloma
High Hi
ISE
The Warning
Radio Free Alice
Scene Queen
Keo
Cardinals
Overpass
GORILLAZ
TWENTY ONE PILOTS
Halsey
Renée Rapp
Kneecap
Palaye Royale
Landmvrks
Pixies
Matt Berninger
Beirut
The Haunted Youth
Dogstar
Harry Mack
CMAT
Kokoroko
Don West
Adrian Quesada’s Trio Asesino
Linka Moja
The Reytons
Voilà
Ecca Vandal
Florence Road
Man/Woman/Chainsaw
The New Eves
THE CURE
MOBY
A Perfect Circle
Rise Against
SONS
Bad Nerves
Kaat Van Stralen
Paul Kalkbrenner
David Byrne
Mogwai
Cory Wong
Sierra Ferrell
Darren Kiely
HAEVN
Ethel Cain
Joy Crookes
Jessie Murph
Dressed Like Boys
Tsar B
Psychonaut
House of Protection
Last Train
NewDad
Westside Cowboy
Chezile
Festivalpark Werchter, sometimes also reffered to as Festivalterrein Werchter (or in English, Werchter festival grounds) is a large open space events area off the N21 regional road in the village of Werchter, near Leuven, in Belgium’s province of Flemish Brabant. It is the site of the annual Rock Werchter Festival, held at the area since 1976.


























