This year is the 60th anniversary of Holland’s largest performing arts festival. It celebrates the end of the cultural season with the best of music, theater, dance, film and opera in superb venues throughout Amsterdam. www.hollandfestival.nl

From August 16-24, Amsterdam hosts a summer spectacle for music lovers, filling the Amsterdam summer evenings with classical music. Large crowds of people will gather in the city center to enjoy the free classical concerts on and around the Amsterdam cana

Each summer, The Amsterdam Roots Festival presents a wide range of global music and non-western culture. For 8 days, the audience is offered a selection of performances, master classes and special projects at several different locations such as Melkweg, T

A nautical music festival, which takes place on and around the water of Amsterdam’s IJ at unique locations, such as the VOC ship ‘The Amsterdam.’ This year Latin-American and Spanish Baroque will be amongst the different music styles per

Waterloopplein 22 Year of construction: 1986 Amsterdam had to wait for a new town hall and a new opera building for many years. Plans were made, but never realized. Towards the end of the 1970s a Viennese architect proposed to design a joint pro

Colourful barrel organs in the streetsBarrel organs belong in Amsterdam just as fish do in water. Nowhere in the world do these brightly painted musical instruments sound as beautiful as they do in the narrow streets of the city centre. They give an extra

After the extremely successful and sold-out thirteenth edition in 2007, the Amsterdam Dance Event will take place from 23rd – 25th October in 2008.  Last years edition has proved that the international electronic and dance music industry is recognising

The Concertgebouw Orchestra was established in 1888, right after the opening of the Concertgebouw Concert Hall. Within only a few decades the orchestra became one of Europe's leading ensembles. From the beginning of the 20th century, many composers and c

In the cellar of the Concertgebouw – that world famous temple of classical music – is a beautiful, round space which used to be off limits to the public. Known as the choir hall, it was always used for choruses and choirs to warm up before a c