Koningsnacht minifestival met MEROL, Elmer, Vera Siemons

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Celebrate King's Night 2025 with a double concert by the queens of current Dutch pop music: singer MEROL and rapper Elmer! The chairs will be removed from the hall for these two Merels, who have both previously packed Lowlands and turned Paradiso upside down. In their own unique way, they each bring humorous and critical lyrics full of self-mockery in your native language, playful melodies, catchy beats and a performance with room for Dutch coziness. To complete the party, Vera Siemons will be DJing after the performances.

Koningsnacht minifestival met MEROL, Elmer, Vera Siemons

Dates

Fri 25 Apr20:30 - 01:15

Location

Het Concertgebouw Amsterdam

Concertgebouwplein 10

1071 LN Amsterdam

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MEROL

MEROL, or Merel Baldé, has become an indispensable part of the Dutch music landscape, although she started out in the theatre world. With a sharp eye, glamour and a good dose of self-mockery, she has been flawlessly exposing the zeitgeist since her breakthrough single Lekker Met De Meiden (2018). On her latest album Naar De Haaien & Weer Terug she manages to combine her playfulness with a raw, idiosyncratic energy. Capricious as life itself, MEROL shoots off in all directions, takes you from her rave basement to her attic room with club bangers, fun, fantasy and vulnerability. 'With Merol I wanted to create a character: this is the ultimate version of myself that I didn't dare to be before.'

Elmer

Elmer is the pseudonym of Merel Pauw, a bouncing rapper and producer with a big mouth and a small heart. She graduated in theater and now combines her love for hip hop with disarming honesty and provocative rawness as an artist. Her music sounds like a combination of electronic, funky beats, lyrics with a good dose of humor and self-mockery, and songs in which Elmer dares to be honest and raps about fear of commitment, panic attacks and self-hatred. Elmer is consciously an alter ego: this gives Merel the artistic freedom to magnify sides of herself. Because there is a chronic shortage of female (and gender nonconforming) hip hop artists in such a seemingly progressive country as the Netherlands, Elmer goes for change and a very unique approach within hip hop.

Afterparty with Vera Siemons

To complete the party, Vera Siemons will be DJing after the performances. Vera Siemons is a 3FM DJ, podcast maker (De Lesbische Liga) and DJ at festivals such as Lowlands, Best Kept Secret and Into the Great Wide Open.

Entrance

This evening is co-presented by Entrée , the club of Het Concertgebouw & Koninklijk Concertgebouworkest for everyone up to and including 35 years old. You will discover classical and related music and meet each other at the events of Entrée. In addition, members benefit from special discounts.

For this concert, the seats will be removed from the auditorium. A limited number of seats will remain available on the balcony.