VoxTechnik brings a live experience like never before to The Hague. During this 2.5-hour live show, the 1980s are reborn in a unique way. The four-piece live band plays exclusively 80s synth-pop, supported by compelling visuals projected onto a large circular screen. You will not only hear the original vocalists, but also see them!
This spectacle is accompanied by the fifth band member, the frontman: VoxTechnik, a robot created for one purpose only: to recreate “The Future of the Past.” The Hague is inextricably linked to Italo disco, making it the perfect place to premiere this unique show!
Internationally acclaimed solo performance combines Bach’s First Cello Suite with comedy, storytelling, and an existential crisis
What happens when an accomplished classical cellist abandons the expected formality of the recital stage and lets her inner clown take over?
On Saturday, September 19, Los Angeles-based cellist, actor, and clown Karen Hall brings her award-winning solo show, Delusions and Grandeur, to SoundHouse Den Haag for one performance only.
Part classical recital and part theatrical investigation, Delusions and Grandeur combines J.S. Bach’s Suite No. 1 in G Major for Solo Cello with physical comedy and deeply personal storytelling. Hall gradually peels away the conventions surrounding classical performance to examine ambition, artistic identity, self-doubt, success, and the sacrifices demanded by mastery.
The result is a performance that moves freely between virtuosity and absurdity, asking what remains when an artist is separated from the instrument, expectations, and professional identity that have shaped her life.
Described by Australian Arts Review as “as irreverent as it is poignant,” the production has toured internationally and received the Outstanding Theatre Award at the 2025 Edinburgh Festival Fringe, the Adelaide Fringe Judges’ Weekly Award for Best in Music, and Stage Raw’s award for Best Solo Performance in Los Angeles Theatre.
“Karen Hall’s work is exactly the kind of performance we want to bring to SoundHouse,” says Elizabeth Huston of Synchromie Muziek. “It is technically excellent, deeply human, and impossible to fit neatly into a single category. Classical musicians will recognize the world she is questioning, but the show is equally accessible to people who have never attended a cello recital.”
Event Information
Event:Delusions and Grandeur Artist: Karen Hall Presented by: SoundHouse Date: Saturday, September 19, 2026 Time: 14:00-15:00 Venue: SoundHouse Den Haag Address:De Constant Rebecqueplein 20B, 2518 RA Den Haag Tickets: €20 general admission; €10 for students and SoundHouse members Tickets and information:Eventbrite Venue information:SoundHouse Den Haag
About Karen Hall
Karen Hall is a professional cellist, educator, actor, and clown based in Los Angeles. Her career has taken her from Carnegie Hall and the Hollywood Bowl to television and recording studios. She appeared on camera as the cellist on the television series Glee for four seasons and has contributed to recordings ranging from independent albums to soundtracks for Emmy-nominated productions.
Hall has performed with symphony orchestras throughout greater Los Angeles and worked with artists including Shawn Mendes, Geoff Emerick, and Yoshiki. Her solo production, Delusions and Grandeur, brings together her classical training and work in clowning, improvisation, and physical theatre. The show has toured internationally to critical acclaim, including performances at the Edinburgh, Adelaide, Sydney, Melbourne, Vancouver, Hollywood, and San Diego fringe festivals.
About SoundHouse Den Haag
SoundHouse is a musician-run venue in The Hague’s Energiekwartier. Located within the DCR creative complex, it provides a home for independent artists whose work crosses genres and disciplines. SoundHouse presents concerts, workshops, research, residencies, and experimental performances in an intimate setting designed to encourage meaningful exchange between artists and audiences.
More than three decades after performing at PAARD in 1992, The Lemonheads return to The Hague on Sunday 18 October 2026.
The Lemonheads are one of the most loved and influential bands of 1990s alternative rock, known for Evan Dando’s warm vocals, melodic songwriting and laidback style. Songs including Into Your Arms and If I Could Talk I’d Tell You, together with their famous cover of Mrs. Robinson, helped establish their distinctive mix of power pop, melancholy and slacker rock.
The band return this autumn with Love Chant, their first album of new, original material in almost twenty years. Much of the album was recorded in Brazil and combines the melodic sound associated with The Lemonheads with new collaborations and influences.
For their PAARD show, the band will mix classic tracks with songs from the new album. Support comes from Dutch psychedelic rock quartet Anemone.
Internationally acclaimed pianist Anna Fedorova returns to Sinfonia after two years. On Friday, September 18, she will perform as soloist in Grieg’s beloved Piano Concerto during the orchestra’s season opening at the Kloosterkerk in The Hague. The concert is also one of Sinfonia’s first concerts in the renovated church. In collaboration with established The Hague wine specialist Marius Wijn, the evening will conclude with a special free Portuguese wine tasting for all concertgoers.
Fedorova is one of the most sought-after pianists of her generation. The Ukrainian pianist has performed at venues including Carnegie Hall in New York, the Royal Albert Hall in London, and the Concertgebouw in Amsterdam, where she has been a guest more than 45 times. Her performance of Rachmaninoff’s Second Piano Concerto became an international audience favorite online and has been viewed more than 46 million times.
After two years, Fedorova stands alongside Sinfonia and chief conductor Conrad van Alphen once again. In The Hague, she performs Grieg’s only Piano Concerto, one of the most famous works in the Romantic piano repertoire. Virtuoso passages alternate with lyrical melodies and influences from Norwegian folk music.
“It is very special to be back on stage with Anna Fedorova after two years. Anna is not only a fantastic pianist, but also a musician with whom the interplay feels very natural. She can be overwhelmingly virtuosic one moment and play incredibly subtle and refined the next. As far as I am concerned, Grieg’s Piano Concerto suits her perfectly,” says Conrad van Alphen, Artistic Director and Conductor of Sinfonia.
From Debussy to the young Bizet
In addition to Grieg’s Piano Concerto, Sinfonia performs Debussy’s Clair de lune in the orchestration by André Caplet. The concert concludes with Georges Bizet’s First Symphony. Bizet wrote this remarkably mature work when he was only seventeen years old. The symphony was never performed during his lifetime and was only rediscovered much later.
In doing so, the orchestra under the direction of Conrad van Alphen brings together three different musical worlds: the refined French timbres of Debussy, the Scandinavian romanticism of Grieg, and the youthful energy of Bizet.
Concert in the renovated Kloosterkerk
The venue is also starting a new chapter this season. The more than six-hundred-year-old Kloosterkerk on the Lange Voorhout was renovated in 2026. The entrance and walking area, among other things, have been upgraded to make the monumental building more accessible and welcoming, and to create more space for socializing around activities and concerts.
For Sinfonia, the Kloosterkerk has long been a familiar concert venue in The Hague. On September 18, the orchestra returns there for its first concert in The Hague of the new season.
Portuguese wine tasting afterwards
This year, the concert evening will have an extra Hague touch thanks to a collaboration with Marius Wijn. During the intermission, the Hague wine merchant will provide the wines for the audience. After the concert, visitors are invited to a free wine tasting.
Marius Wijn presents six different Portuguese wines during the tasting. Among them are two new wines that have just been added to the assortment. Concert attendees are therefore among the first to taste these wines.
ON THE EVE OF PRINSJESDAG, MUSIC TAKES OVER THE HAGUE CITY CENTRE
On the evening before Prinsjesdag, the political capital transforms into a free music festival that ends with a late-night ode to democracy. On Monday evening, 14 September, The Hague will once again be all about PrinsjesNach for the fourth year in a row, a free musical pub crawl. With more than 35 acts across 30 locations, the full line-up has now been announced.
Indie pop in a traditional brown café, classical music in a bicycle parking facility and jazz from under an awning: during PrinsjesNach, musical The Hague comes to life. In addition to intimate concerts at some of the city’s best hospitality venues, this year there will also be talent workshops, themed routes, a NachMis and an extensive children’s programme one day later.
Sarah de Bruijn, co-organiser of PrinsjesNach, says: “With more acts than ever, PrinsjesNach remains an intimate and surprising festival with an overwhelmingly broad programme. On dozens of small stages from Noordeinde to Bierkade, both established names and emerging talent will make their music heard.”
New this year
For the first time this year, PrinsjesNach will end with a late-night ‘ode to democracy’: the NachMis.
Henk & Melle, normally a duo and known from Hallo Venray and Smutfish, will perform with a full band especially for the occasion, accompanied by spoken word from Scott Beekhuizen (Prins S en de Geit) and Laurin Nargy (Poezieboys).
Also new are talent workshops for young brass musicians and singer-songwriters. The young brass band The Legendairs and seasoned musician Arno Bakker, percussion specialist Miguel Varela (La Máquina) and renowned trumpeter Michael Varekamp will work together on a presentation in which jazz, brass band and Caribbean music spectacularly come together.
In addition, in collaboration with Songwriter Sunday, a special open mic programme will take place for emerging singer-songwriters. Guus van der Steen (Kern Koppen) and Ferdinand van Duuren (French Kiss) will prepare eight new singer-songwriters from The Hague for their debut performances at Kunstbar during PrinsjesNach.
Bicycle parking concert
PrinsjesNach starts as soon as you park your bicycle. For one evening, the bicycle parking facility in Nobelstraat will become an unexpected stage, with several performances taking place at the beginning and end of the evening.
If you are already in the city earlier, join the Haagse Beat Tour at 16:00 and discover The Hague as the city where legendary bands such as Golden Earring and Goldband have their musical roots. Or get into the mood at Den Haag Centraal station, where the first sounds of PrinsjesNach will already be heard from 17:00.
Themed routes
Also new this year are several themed routes, allowing visitors to explore their favourite styles of music.
Sarah de Bruijn: “With such a full line-up, it is of course difficult to choose between all the acts. That is why we have created themed routes such as Female Voices, World Sounds, Jazz and New Talent. This makes it easy to go on a musical journey of discovery throughout the evening.”
Children’s programme
PrinsjesNach continues for the youngest visitors one day later at Zuiderparktheater, in collaboration with PrinsjesNach, Zuiderparktheater and De Betovering.
From 10:00 on Prinsjesdag, a special children’s programme will take place there. The programme includes Kleine Louis, a swinging musical story about the origins of jazz, jazz legend Louis Armstrong and, above all, finding the inspiration to choose your own path.
The Hague band Meyendel will also perform their tender songs for the youngest audience, interspersed with some of the most beautiful stories by Toon Tellegen.
Practical information
PrinsjesNach takes place on Monday 14 September from 19:00 and is free to attend at 30 locations across The Hague city centre. The festival concludes at 23:30 with the NachMis.
Anyone who wants to get into the mood in advance can listen to the PrinsjesNach playlist on Spotify, featuring music from part of this year’s line-up. Or install the Jamr app, where the full line-up and timetable will appear in the coming days.
Full line-up
Amber Rosa Lynn, Benito, De Kraaien, Duo Durville, French Kiss, Gerardo Rosales, Gillespiana, Goodnight Irene, Haagse Beat Tour, Hero’s Journey: Oudyssey, Isabella Lavanga, Jabuticaba, Jam de La Creme PrinsjesNach Jamsessie, Lidy Blijdorp & Ketevan Roinishvili, Lily Clarissa, LUYI & Imanol Emede, Mamey, Mandalamarra, Manja, Miles O’Brien, Mulatu Listening Bar, NachMis, NANO, Notes, Beats & Bars met BF, Open mic-programma Songwriter Sunday, Roos van Herrewegen, Satyakam Mokhamsing, Sealovers, Tante Koor, The COOPER & FOREST POOKY Experience, The Kiffs, Brassband The Legendairs, The Velcro, Tobias, Tripkip, VOS, Writers Unlimited, Yaëll Campbell, Zippora.
Themed routes
Female Voices: Discover Amber Rosa Lynn, Zippora, Isabella Lavanga, Tante Koor and Lily Clarissa, and attend the Writers Unlimited talk Women (Re)write History, with musical accompaniment.
World Sounds: Travel around the world with the Eastern sounds of Satyakam Mohkamsing, be carried away by Hero’s Journey: Oudyssey by Iranian multi-instrumentalist Sepand Dadbeh, the distinctive Italian folk rock of Mandalamarra and Brazilian sounds from Gerardo Rosales and Jabuticaba.
Jazz: For true jazz lovers, the programme features LUYI & Imanol Emede, Isabella Lavanga and Gillespiana by The Hague jazz icons Michael Varekamp and Ben van den Dungen.
New Talent: Want to discover new talent from The Hague? Listen to The Kiffs, The Velcro, Yaëll Campbell, Mamey and NANO. Or immerse yourself in Dutch-language songs by VOS, Manja, Benito and others.
Late summer Sunday afternoon – blues and roots with a great view
The Hague blues-roots trio Jimding plays Café Caipi (the former “Zeemanshuis”) at the entry to the Scheveningen harbor on Sunday afternoon, September 13
Jimding brings together three old souls who’ve paid their dues — blues growler Jim Wake on lead vocals, guitar and blues harp, with Nico Hart on bass, and John den Exter on percussion. In an extensive repertoire of originals that somehow seem familiar, Jimding ponders love and loss, trial and error, betrayal and abandonment, the sublime and the ridiculous, and good times and bad with a mix of irony, exasperation, and an appreciation for the absurdities of life. To complement the original material, Jimding puts its own spin on blues, rock and roots classics from iconic artists like Muddy Waters, T-Bone Walker, The Rolling Stones and The Beatles, among others.
Jimding
Sunday, September 13 – 2:00 PM – 4:00 PM
Caipi Cafe, Visafslagweg 1, The Hague (Scheveningen ) www.jimwake.com
