Balkan Trafik Festival

18/10/2026

🔥 SERBIAN BRASS. FULL POWER. THREE NIGHTS.

When the Fabijan Selimović Balkan Brass Band hits Balkan Trafik!, you won’t just hear them — you’ll feel them.

🎺 Explosive Serbian brass
🥁 Raw Balkan rhythms
🔥 Pure live energy

For three nights, they’ll take over the Bourse of Brussels — on stage, through the crowds and in unexpected live happenings across the festival.

No barriers. No distance. Just brass, rhythm and that unmistakable Balkan madness.

📅 19 • 20 • 21 November 2026
📍 Bourse / Beurs Brussels
🎟 €35/day — https://www.ticketing.brussels/en/tickets/event-details.Balkan-Trafik.524833e8-e1f7-4251-9b25-b1c246106dbb

20 YEARS. 3 NIGHTS. ONE ICONIC VENUE.

16/10/2026

🔥 FROM CALABRIA TO BRUSSELS — THE ARBËRESHË SPIRIT IS COMING TO BALKAN TRAFIK!

This November, Balkan Trafik! welcomes BASHKIM ETHNO FOLK, coming from the Arbëreshë community of southern Italy.

Italian heritage. Albanian history. One living tradition: the Arbëreshë songs. 🇮🇹🇦🇱

For centuries, the Arbëreshë have kept alive an extraordinary Albanian heritage in Italy through language, song, rhythm and tradition.

But this is not a museum piece.

This is living heritage.

Festive. Generous. Vibrant. Made to be shared.

For two nights, Bashkim Ethno Folk will bring this unique culture to the Bourse of Brussels — where Albanian memory meets Italian soil, and tradition turns into celebration.

Who brings them to Brussels?

BALKAN TRAFIK!

Because cultural heritage is not something to put behind glass.

It deserves to be heard, shared, celebrated — and invested in.

🎶 FRIDAY 20 NOVEMBER
🎶 SATURDAY 21 NOVEMBER

📍 BOURSE / BEURS BRUSSELS
🎟️ €35/day
➡️ BalkanTrafik.com

HERITAGE YOU CAN DANCE TO. 🔥

15/10/2026

🔥 THREE NIGHTS. THREE DIFFERENT VINYL SETS.

🇲🇩🇺🇦 DJ SHAHASH AKRIMSKI — FIRST TIME IN BELGIUM!

Rare vinyl. Heavy bass. Unexpected discoveries.

DJ, MC and record collector based in Chișinău, Shahash Akrimski brings his Moldovan and Ukrainian roots straight to the Brussels dancefloor — exclusively on vinyl. 💿

Forgotten voices, traditional rhythms and rare records from Moldova, Ukraine, the Caucasus and the post-Soviet world collide with ⚡ breakbeat, jungle, drum’n’bass and contemporary bass music.

For his Belgian debut at Balkan Trafik!, expect THREE DIFFERENT SETS across ALL THREE NIGHTS. A new selection, a different journey, every evening. Always with that unmistakable Balkan Trafik! flavour.

Every transition built live. Every record telling a story.
A living archive transformed into a dancefloor. 🔥

👠 Saturday afternoon: he also soundtracks the Balkan Fashion Meets Brussels catwalk.
🚨 Saturday night: he takes over THE CLOSING SET OF BALKAN TRAFIK!

Come for one night. Discover another side the next.

📅 19 • 20 • 21 NOVEMBER 2026
📍 BOURSE / BEURS — BRUSSELS
🎟️ €35/day — www.balkantrafik.com

20 YEARS. 3 NIGHTS. ONE ICONIC VENUE.

13/10/2026

🔥 BALKAN FREQUENCIES — WHEN THE BALKANS GO ELECTRIC.
Traditional roots. Heavy bass. Hypnotic rhythms. Techno. No borders.
For its 20th anniversary, Balkan Trafik! brings together four artists who push Balkan sounds straight into the night:
🔥 CEM YILDIZ — electrified saz, hypnotic vocals and powerful electronics straight from Istanbul. Full-on electro-Anatolian trance.
⚡ DJ SKANDAL — Balkan club energy colliding with techno, driving beats and a darker late-night pulse.
💿 DJ SHAHASH AKRIMSKI — vinyl selector from Moldova, travelling between Balkan grooves, forgotten gems and late-night beats.
🎧 DJ GAETANO FABRI — one of the early forces of the Balkan Beat wave, mixing Roma grooves, brass and club culture.
Different countries. Different generations.
One frequency.
BALKAN FREQUENCIES.
And when the concerts end, the night keeps moving.
📅 19 • 20 • 21 NOVEMBER 2026
📍 BOURSE / BEURS BRUSSELS
🎟️ €35 / day
➡️ BalkanTrafik.com
BRASS. BASS. TECHNO. TRANCE. BALKAN ENERGY. 🔥

13/10/2026

🔥 THIS MAN HAS BALKAN BEATS IN HIS DNA.

Before Balkan beats exploded across European dancefloors, DJ GAETANO FABRI was already there — mixing club culture with Roma music, Balkan brass, klezmer and the wild sounds of Eastern Europe.

💥 Kočani Orkestar — “S**i, S**i Baba” for the legendary Electric Gypsyland
💥 Taraf de Haïdouks — “Go East” on Electric Gypsyland 2
💥 Nuit Tsigane — an entire journey through Taraf de Haïdouks, Fanfare Ciocărlia, Balkan Beat Box, Kočani Orkestar, Kal and more.

From Paris club nights to Balkan Trafik!, Gaetano has spent decades turning traditional sounds into pure dancefloor energy.

And for our 20th anniversary, our longtime resident is back where he belongs:

🔥 BEHIND THE DECKS AT BALKAN TRAFIK!

Brass. Bass. Roma grooves. Balkan madness.

NO BORDERS. JUST DANCE.

📅 19 • 20 • 21 NOVEMBER 2026
📍 BOURSE / BEURS BRUSSELS
🎟️ €35/day
➡️ BalkanTrafik.com

12/10/2026

⚠️ **50% OF CAPACITY ALREADY SOLD.**

🔥 **IN JUST OVER FIVE WEEKS, BALKAN TRAFIK! OPENS ITS DOORS.**

**Thursday 19 November. La Bourse. Brussels.**

For its **20th anniversary**, Balkan Trafik! is opening with a night that carries all the power, freedom and madness of the Balkans.

At the heart of it:

🌍 **WORLD PREMIERE**

**BALKANIADA BY CLEJANI: MARGA, BEA, FULGY, VIORICA & IONIȚĂ FEAT. FLORIN SALAM**

A special creation made for Balkan Trafik!’s 20th anniversary.

**One family. Several generations. Romanian and Roma traditions meeting Turkish, Greek, Serbian, Eastern and Klezmer influences — with a very special guest: the King of Manele, Florin Salam.**

Tradition meets the present.
Virtuosity meets celebration.
Emotion turns into a collective explosion.

And that is only the heart of the night.

🔥 Swing with **Muriel D’Ailleurs & Jama Orchestra**
🔥 Albanian isopolyphony with **Krojet e Velçës**
🔥 Arbëresh traditions
🔥 The raw power of **Serbian brass**
🔥 Balkan Sessions, DJs and performances throughout the Bourse

And as the night moves deeper…

⚡ **CEM YILDIZ — LIVE FROM ISTANBUL**

Electrified saz. Voice. Electronics. Powerful beats.

From **Sónar Barcelona and Montreux Jazz Festival to Nuits Sonores and Les Trans Musicales**, Cem Yıldız takes the musical roots of Anatolia and drives them straight into today’s dancefloor.

Expect **full-on electro-Anatolian trance**.

And Balkan Trafik! is much more than the stages.

✦ **Sicanje Tattoo**
🍷 **Balkan wines**
🍺 **Belgian beers**
🍴 **Balkan Kitchen**
🎶 More than four concerts + live sessions
🎧 DJs & happenings throughout the building

All of this inside one of Brussels’ most extraordinary landmarks:

**LA BOURSE / BEURS.**

📅 **THURSDAY 19 NOVEMBER 2026**
🎟 **€35 • Limited capacity**
➡️ **BALKANTRAFIK.COM**

**20 YEARS.
3 DAYS. 3 NIGHTS.
AND THIS IS HOW IT BEGINS. 🔥**

11/10/2026

08/10/2026

🔥 BALKAN TRAFIK! 2026 — TRAILER #4

Another glimpse into the many worlds of Balkan Trafik! 🌍🎶

From Moldova to the Czech Roma scene, from Brussels to the dancefloor — five more artists, five different energies, one festival.

⚡ Lupii lui Calancea
⚡ Terne Čhave
🎺 Dominic Ntoumos
🎶 Muriel D’Ailleurs & Jama Orchestra
🎧 DJ Shahash Akrimski

And this is still only part of the journey…

For its 20th anniversary, Balkan Trafik! takes over the Bourse – Beurs of Brussels for three nights of live music, encounters, food, Balkan wines, Belgian beers, tattoo, fashion and late-night energy.

📅 19 • 20 • 21 November 2026
📍 Bourse – Beurs Brussels
🎟 €35 / day
➡️ BalkanTrafik.com

20 YEARS. 3 NIGHTS. MANY WORLDS. ONE ICONIC VENUE.

06/10/2026

🔥 LUPII LUI CALANCEA — MOLDOVA UNLEASHED IN BRUSSELS! 🇲🇩

Traditional Moldovan roots. Rock energy. A sound built for the stage. ⚡

Lupii lui Calancea are coming to Balkan Trafik! 2026 for a powerful live show at the Bourse – Beurs of Brussels.

🥁 Ancient rhythms, traditional instruments and Moldovan folklore collide with rock, bass and contemporary energy.

This is not folklore frozen in time.

This is Moldova alive, loud and moving forward. 🔥

🇲🇩 LUPII LUI CALANCEA
📅 Saturday 21 November 2026, 4 concerts per day + happening
🕗 20:00
📍 Bourse – Beurs Brussels
🎟 €35 / day
➡️ BALKANTRAFIK.COM

🤝 With the support of the Ministry of Culture of the Republic of Moldova.

20 YEARS. 3 NIGHTS. ONE ICONIC VENUE.