rainy days 2021

Festival de musiques nouvelles

12.11.-05.12.2021

20 (+1) years of rainy days – 15 (+1) years of rainy days at the Philharmonie

In 2021, the festival rainy days, Luxembourg’s international hotspot for contemporary music, offers encounters of all kinds: «come together again»!

Come together again – this motto has an almost provocative character during the Covid-19 pandemic. The experience of the pandemic has brought home to us the existential importance of encounters both in and for our lives. After the past 1.5 years, the wish and the necessity of coming together again, while complying with all the safety precautions, has become greater than ever. Even before the outbreak of the pandemic, in our highly polarized Western societies – where more and more people perceive difference as threatening and retreat into small «bubbles» – encounters have gained ever more importance for the future. Yet the arts have always enabled, documented and been nourished by encounters: with other artists and art forms, with other styles, experiences, emotions, philosophies, places, cultures, epochs…

In 2021, rainy days invites the audience to see, hear, experience and share encounters of the most diverse kinds on a broad range of contexts in 21 concerts and performances, as well as artist talks.