This year Assen is celebrating 100 years of the TT and 50 years of the TT Festival. For the anniversary edition of the TT Festival, the TT Week Assen Foundation is using a previously tried and tested recipe. There will be another music stage on the water of the Vaart, built on floating pontoons.
Well-known artists then perform. They are musically accompanied by the Royal Military Band Johan Willem Friso from Assen. The concert on the floating music stage is seen as ‘the golden edge of the Festival, which attracts more than a quarter of a million visitors to Assen every year’.
It is not yet known which artists will be featured on the floating music stage. Tonight, the special program around the celebration of 100 years of the TT and 50 years of the TT Festival will be announced by the Circuit van Drenthe Foundation and the TT Week Assen Foundation at the New Year’s meeting, the Asser Kick-off.
It has already been proven that the Vaart in Assen is a rewarding place for music performances or other events. In 2016, the TT Festival also used the water as an extra place for a music stage. Artists and audience then stood on the floating pontoons, including Roel van Velzen on stage. The organization wanted to create more space in the city for all the public.
The Vuelta started in Assen at the end of August 2009. A floating stage was also placed on the water for the well-attended team presentation of this Spanish cycling round.
Various special activities have already been initiated around the 100th anniversary of TT. For example, filmmaker Roy Ferwerda is working on a hundred-minute film about the magic of the TT. It will premiere on May 22 in De Nieuwe Kolk in Assen. Uitgeverij Noordboek-Van Gorcum is launching a special anniversary book with photos from a century of TT.