Dear media partners, Dear colleagues,

We are pleased to present 52 new bands and artists, to look out on Reeperbahn Festival’s activities in New York City and to give you a short review of the first Reeperbahn Festival International spin-off in Beijing today.
Frehn Hawel

Hamburg, 21 May 2019

52 new bands and artists at Reeperbahn Festival 2019
By today's announcement of 52 names, the concert programme of Reeperbahn Festival has now reached a total of 105 confirmed acts.
Among them Ásgeir (IS) (photo) who, with his artfully composed pop pearls ranging between indie, electronica and folk, is long known beyond the borders of his home country.
The LoFi pioneers Sebadoh (US) can already count their career in decades: Three decades ago their debut album was published, the trio around Lou Barlow came back in 2013 after the band had a break of almost ten years and is now coming to Hamburg with its ninth album.
Punk attitude, fuzz guitars, psychedelia: YAK (GB) give rock born in Britain back its edge, charging open doors, while Amilli (DE) is confronting the sometimes inane opulence of more recent rap and r’n'b productions with his soulful vocals and brilliantly produced beats – easily scoring all the coolness points with his relaxed understatement.  

Also confirmed: Stars (CA), James TW (GB), Argonautiks (DE), VON SPAR (DE), Young The Giant (US), bülow (CA, DE, GB, NL, US), Jules Ahoi (DE), The Screenshots (DE), MID CITY (AU), HAVARII. (DE), Feng Suave (NL), COMA (DE), Barbara Morgenstern (DE), Arlo Parks (GB), Shortparis (RU), Pile (US), Pierce Brothers (AU), RVG (AU), Poppy (US), KORANTEMAA (SE), Oscar Jerome (GB), MINKE (GB), Sofia Portanet (DE), JC Stewart (GB), DAS MOPED (DE), BLACK MIRRORS (BE), Bedouine (US), Malik Harris (DE), Die Kerzen (DE), Knarf Rellöm Arkestra (DE), Melby (SE), Maffai (DE), Penelope Isles (GB), Bruckner (DE), The Delta Riggs (AU), O Gajo (PT), Serushiô (PT), Omiri (PT), Lusitanian Ghosts (PT), Lil Halima (NO), Jacob Lee (AU), Together Pangea (US), Winterbourne (AU), Press Club (AU), Partner (CA), Molly Sarlé (US), Steph Grace (AU), Tara Nome Doyle (DE, NO, IE).

17 – 20 June: Reeperbahn Festival in New York City
For the fourth time, the Reeperbahn Festival team will travel to New York to present itself in the course of the Indie Week of the American Association of Independent Music (A2IM). The forthcoming edition, under the umbrella of Deutschlandjahr USA, is aimed at supporting cultural and music business exchange between Germany and the US.
Reeperbahn Festival will set off for New York City with an even larger delegation of meanwhile 45 enterprises from Germany and Europe with a view to making new contacts and entering cooperation agreements with their American counterparts.
On Wednesday, 19 June, jury president Tony Visconti will introduce the ANCHOR – Reeperbahn Festival International Music Award Jury, some of whose members will be present. Right afterwards, the Reeperbahn Festival showcase night will be staged at the Rockwood Music Hall on Lower Eastside with international artists and bands such as Gurr (DE), Leoniden (DE), Mira Lu Kovacs (AT), ORI (IL), Renata Zeiguer (US), Surfbort (US) (photo) and Yes We Mystic (CA).
On Tuesday, 18 June, Reeperbahn Festival will already present a panel on the topic "#HowWeListenToday: The very latest changes and trends in music consumption and distribution and possible cooperation between the German/European and the North American music market" to have a look at current trends and changes in music reception and distribution in Germany and Europe, but also North America, from different angles.

The "Sequencer Tour" within Deutschlandjahr USA is funded by the German Federal Foreign Office, implemented by the Goethe-Institut, and with support from the Federation of German Industries (BDI).