The Experience
Music
“Music is life itself” – Louis Armstrong
Thumping bass, driving guitar riffs, or a smoky voice over an acoustic guitar — the music at the Down By The River festival is there to get you dancing, feeling it and celebrating.
Line Up
Who's playing in 2026
We are glad to announce the following bands.
Big G and the Boozeheads
Visit the bandHigh-energy songs from the last seventy years — Little Richard through to Bruce Springsteen. If you want to do yourself and everyone around you a favour, get the dancing shoes back out and spend an evening in a very good mood, this is your band.
Musikaner Agi
“Songs by Marius Müller Westernhagen and Johnny Cash, other covers, and a few of my own in the bag.” — that is Musikaner Agi. With an acoustic guitar and a smoky voice, Uwe Berger delivers 70s and 80s songs as covers and gets the hair on your arms standing up.
Irgendwo
Visit the bandIndie from Wetzlar, on the same river as the festival. Of their single the four of them write that it came about somewhere between despair and happiness.
Music takes you somewhere else
Follow our official Down by the River playlist on Spotify. It is the sound we celebrate, and it will get you in the mood well before you arrive.