NL

PopCollegeTour 2023

6 Bands, 6 Conservatories, 6 Pop stages, 6 Cities, 1 Week!

A unique collaboration between 6 Dutch conservatories with a Pop department to give their selected bands the opportunity to present themselves live on stage throughout the Netherlands.
  • 26 Mar 2023
  • EKKO
  • Bemuurde Weerd Westzijde 3, Utrecht
The tour includes 6 shows and will visit the 6 Pop stages in Tilburg, Rotterdam, Enschede, Haarlem, Amsterdam and Utrecht during 1 week ( Mon 20 - Sun 26 March 2023)​.

Every Conservatory selects 1 band/act to participate in the tour, so every show will present these 6 bands.

HKU Utrechts Conservatorium presents Citrus Blossom:
Feeding off the endless need to share their music, Citrus Blossom proposes an amalgam of genres with a rock base since 2017. Deeply committed against social inequalities and the horrors of war, the sociopolitical lyrics of their original songs travel between grit and tenderness. Cruising through high density, improvised songs and keeping the raw essence a quintet always pulls off, they have managed to create songs tailor-made to be played in front of a crowd. Initially established in Greece, the band is now made up of eclectic international musicians that live in Utrecht. From Rock, Jazz, Folklore and Pop, the variety of musical influences contributed to compose the unique timbre by the dialogue between saxophone and violin which are coloring the eastern traditional voice lines.