The Music Weekend Pesse has been in existence for 25 years. What started as a small festival in the year 2000 is now a concept that transcends the region. A look back at the origin of festival, which quickly grew out of his jacket.
The fact that the Pesse Muziekweekend has been around for 25 years does not automatically mean that the 25th edition is on the program today and tomorrow. No fewer than three editions went. That happened twice through Corona in the last five years. And in the early years the party could not take place because of the outbreak of mouth and mouth disease. That means that the music weekend is now being held for the 22nd time.
For the very first edition we go back to the year 2000. In Pesse, a party was celebrated in the middle of the village every year. “A kind of festival”, organizer Jack Reinders looks back. “But unfortunately we no longer received a permit for it. There was too much noise, the neighborhood thought. Then we had to think of something else.”
Jack Reinders, Bernard ten Oever and Gerbrand Takens threw it over a different bow and founded the Muziek 2000 Foundation. Reinders has always had the wish to hold a festival. To achieve that, he moved the party to a potato shed on the Ruinerweg with his companions. 1,250 people could go there.
Among other things, the feed beet and the forest rangers performed. In 2003 normally came to the barn and that was a major crowd puller. The success was so great that the festival quickly grew out of its jacket. More and more visitors managed to find the Music Weekend.
The festival then moved to the Pesserveldweg, where thousands of visitors fell more. Farmer rock band Normally played the pasture plenty of times. When the band came from singer Bennie Jolink, it always led to sold -out fields.
Nevertheless, a major problem arose in 2018 with the location on Pesserveldweg. The site was near the Defense storage site. She didn’t think it was a good idea that the festival was being held there, but the municipality of Hoogeveen overruled defense all the time. But that was no longer sustainable when an inspector of Defense started sputtering.
The organization had to look for a new party location and found it at Hendrik Reindersweg 5 in Pesse. The farm of co-organizer Bernard ten Oever is also there. His soil is used. Disadvantage: there is no room for a campsite there.
How is it possible that the music weekend has become a concept far beyond the region? “There is never trammelant here,” says Reinders. “That pulls people from far and wide here. And security guards are called help here. A geuzen name. That is also a thing.”
The music weekend lasts two days. This year Zoë Tauran, Jonna Fraser, Frenna, The Partysquad and the Edwin Evers Band will perform. Farmers rock band Normally comes to Pesse on 31 May. The band has been in existence for fifty years.