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Open Sound Festival: Live music for everyone in the heart of Göttingen!
Göttingen presents the Open Sound Festival from June 26th to August 8th, 2025 with free live music at the weekly market.
Open Sound Festival: Live music for everyone in the heart of Göttingen!
Summer in Göttingen will be a little different this year. Instead of the traditionally popular KWP Festival, the 2025 event is canceled and the “Open Sound Festival” is on the program instead. This colorful music festival takes place from June 26th to August 8th, 2025. On a total of six summer evenings, the Göttingen weekly market becomes a stage for live music - without admission. At a time when the city of Göttingen is in a budget security year, the festival shows that culture can flourish even in difficult times. HNA reports that…
The Open Sound Festival, which takes place under the umbrella of the Göttingen Cultural Summer, offers a diverse program with a focus on different styles of music. Indie, rock, neo-classical, electro and even a little children's pop'n'roll are on offer. Artists such as Dota, Martin Kohlstedt and Kytes, to name just a few, will appear. The list of performing groups is long and promising: The Flause Collective, ok.danke.tschüss, Kyles Tolone and Sweety Glitter & the Sweethearts are also part of the program. It kicks off on June 26th with “Songs for Cool Kids” and Dota. The cultural summer provides information about…
Dates in detail
Here is an overview of the other festival dates:
- 27. Juni: Pelemele und ok.danke.tschüss
- 10. Juli: Flause Kollektiv und Martin Kohlstedt
- 11. Juli: Engin und Kytes
- 7. August: Sweety Glitter & the Sweethearts
- 8. August: Catapults und Kyles Tolone
This new festival format seems to be well received, both by the city and by the sponsors who have agreed to support next year's KWP festival, on August 14th and 15th, 2026. A strong sign for the cultural scene in Göttingen!
Cultural diversity in Göttingen
The city not only offers exciting events during the Open Sound Festival. For example, there is the Göttingen Puppet Theater Days, which present hand puppets, jaw figures and much more every February. In addition, the Göttingen Elk, which has been awarded since 1997, is valued as Germany's most important satire prize, while the Göttingen Cultural Summer impresses with a diverse live cultural program for young and old. The different events show how lively and diverse cultural life is in Göttingen. Göttingen.de emphasizes that...
If you would like to know more about the cultural offerings in Göttingen, you will find a wealth of information on the city's website, including other events and exhibitions. At a time when cultural life is often challenged, it is encouraging to see how committed the city is to providing a colorful and lively offering.