Night of Surprise 2025
Night of Surprise transforms the Stadtgarten into a multi-voiced and adventurous musical landscape for one long festival night. Fragile songs meet abstract intensity, avant-garde meets folk experiments, transformed traditions meet fleeting digital visions.
For its anniversary, the "most adventurous music festival in Cologne" is focusing on "Cloud Curation": a collective process fed by over 150 artistic perspectives and over 400 ideas from around the world. Night of Surprise X pushes boundaries and expands comfort zones – bringing together music rarely experienced on the same stage.
October 18, 2025
Free Admission
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Balmainjeans
Barthel / Constance / Nyoukis
Cara Tolmie & Rian Treanor
Daou (Erwan Keravec & Alban Richard)
Donatienne Michel-Dansac & Igor Semenoff
Eric Chenaux
Florence Sinclair
Florentin Ginot
Fred Frith / Liz Allbee / Tim Hodgkinson
Horse Lords & Arnold Dreyblatt
John McCowen & Madison Greenstone
Lechuga Zafiro
Lukas De Clerck
Oùat
Placebo Domingo& Ignaz Schick
Sarah San
Silvia Tarozzi & Deborah Walker
Slikback
Stian Westerhus & Frieder Weiss
Thuluth (Magda Mayas / Ute Wassermann / Raed Yassin)
Ziúr
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