{"id":130396,"date":"2025-09-15T18:26:44","date_gmt":"2025-09-15T16:26:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pan-african-music.com\/?p=130396"},"modified":"2025-09-15T18:26:45","modified_gmt":"2025-09-15T16:26:45","slug":"le-guess-who-2025","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pan-african-music.com\/en\/le-guess-who-2025\/","title":{"rendered":"Le Guess Who? 2025 lineup reaches worldwide"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>The Utrecht based festival is back with an eclectic lineup of music and artists from around the world, giving a stage to the overlooked and outstanding sounds from Senegal to Shanghai. <a href=\"https:\/\/leguesswho.com\/lgw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Get your tickets<\/a> now, and check out who we\u2019re most excited to cover.<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>PAM is once again heading to Utrecht to participate in one of the world\u2019s most forward thinking festivals, Le Guess Who?. It\u2019s an event that lasts from the 6-9 November highlighting, across many stages throughout the city, with music from China, Sudan, Norway, or Tunisia. Each year the festival highlights acts that represent the fascinating depth of the world\u2019s cultures, as well as those reimagining music scenes for unknown futures.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>To do so, Le Guess Who? calls upon an astonishing array of curators to build lineups with an artistic vision. Colombian DJ and producer <a href=\"https:\/\/leguesswho.com\/lineup\/edna-martinez?referrer=search\">Enda Martinez<\/a> has tapped into her country\u2019s colorful and zany pic\u00f3 soundsystem culture to bring acts like Mexico City\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/leguesswho.com\/lineup\/bclip?referrer=search\">BCLIP<\/a>, and <a href=\"https:\/\/leguesswho.com\/lineup\/la-saramuya?referrer=search\">La Saramuya<\/a>\u2019s original sound system that will blast champeta, guaracha, cumbia, and more. Netherlands based drum and bass producer gyrofiled is bringing together today\u2019s most imaginative bass producers, P\u00e9kin\u2019s eclectic noise artist <a href=\"https:\/\/leguesswho.com\/news\/playlist-lgw25-curated-by-tianzhuo-chen\">Tianzhuo Chen<\/a> has curated a selection of East Asian visionaries from Indonesia\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/leguesswho.com\/lineup\/hulubalang?referrer=search\">HULUBALANG<\/a> to Shanghai\u2019s deconstructed club killer <a href=\"https:\/\/leguesswho.com\/lineup\/33emybw-li-jianhong?referrer=search\">33EMYBW<\/a>, and American jazzman Lonnie Holley provides the soulful sounds of cosmic jazz via <a href=\"https:\/\/leguesswho.com\/lineup\/the-cosmic-tones-research-trio?referrer=search\">The Cosmic Tones Research Trio<\/a> or <a href=\"https:\/\/leguesswho.com\/lineup\/alabaster-deplume?referrer=search\">Alabaster DePlume<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:50px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<iframe style=\"border: 0; width: 100%; height: 120px;\" src=\"https:\/\/bandcamp.com\/EmbeddedPlayer\/album=2166117408\/size=large\/bgcol=ffffff\/linkcol=0687f5\/tracklist=false\/artwork=small\/transparent=true\/\" seamless loading=\"lazy\"><a href=\"https:\/\/mississippirecords.bandcamp.com\/album\/magg-tekki\">Magg Tekki by Assiko Golden Band de Grand Yoff<\/a><\/iframe>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:50px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>This year, PAM will be on the ground covering multiple acts, with an original in the field report, in collaboration with Kourtrajm\u00e9, of the <a href=\"https:\/\/leguesswho.com\/lineup\/assiko-golden-band-de-grand-yoff?referrer=search\">Assiko Golden Band<\/a> of the Grand Yoff neighborhood in Dakar, Senegal. Known for their legendary all-night jams, Assiko uses music to promote a positive message, wield political influence, pass on spiritual teaching of Sufi Islam, and organize rallies for social change. Led by poet Djiby Ly of the Wau Wau collective, PAM will capture the group\u2019s electric performances in the streets of Dakar before they take the stage at Le Guess Who? so readers can understand the roots of this 25 year old jam band.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Don\u2019t miss out on one of the world\u2019s most radically inclusive and creatively diverse music experiences. Head over to <a href=\"https:\/\/leguesswho.com\/lgw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Le Guess Who?<\/a> to see the full lineup, and get your spots while you still can.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Utrecht based festival is back with an eclectic lineup of artists from around the world, giving a stage to outstanding sounds from Senegal to Shanghai.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":130397,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3944],"tags":[],"location":[8198],"yst_prominent_words":[24726,8447,8435,8506,8501,33151,24403,8449,16190],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pan-african-music.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/130396"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pan-african-music.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pan-african-music.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pan-african-music.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pan-african-music.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=130396"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/pan-african-music.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/130396\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pan-african-music.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/130397"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pan-african-music.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=130396"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pan-african-music.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=130396"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pan-african-music.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=130396"},{"taxonomy":"location","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pan-african-music.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/location?post=130396"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pan-african-music.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=130396"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}