Bathtub regatta on the Meuse
Upcoming Events
ROBBIE WILLIAMS CONCERT
Take The Crown Stadium Tour 2013.
The concert will be recorded live on the night, produced as deluxe triple CD albums and made available to collect instantly after the show.
LIL' WAYNE IN BRUSSELS
Lil Wayne, the artist with multi-platinum and Grammy Award winner, has decided to move their European tour along with Mac Miller to enable it to finalize the release of his tenth album in the best possible conditions. Forest National concert originally scheduled on March 25, the date was postponed to Thursday, October 17.
The American star said: "I reject my European tour in order to better prepare for the worldwide release of my new album" I Am Not A Human Being II "scheduled for March 26. I prefer not to upset both the release of my album, my tour. It is therefore against heart that I decided to reschedule my tour in October 2013. I can not thank my European fans enough for their patience and understanding. I very much look forward to coming to play in Europe with Mac Miller in the fall. I refuse to do things by halves and promise to all my fans for their book an unforgettable sight. '
Tickets purchased for March 25 remain valid for 17 October!
Bruno Mars concert in Antwerp
Peter Gene Hernandez, or on his artist name Bruno Mars is only 27 years old, but he already have a Grammy Award in the Best man pop singer category and he sold 6 million albums and 40 million EPs in the whole world. His newest album released in December 2012 and it has already sold out half million pieces, and this number is just growing. The singer’s popularity’s secret is his versatile music style. Jon Caramanica wrote in The New York Times about Mars ‘one of the most versatile and accessible singers in pop, with a light, soul-influenced voice that’s an easy fit in a range of styles, a universal donor.’ This makes him one of the most popular singers of our time, because everybody from the youngsters to elderlies trolls his songs, or at least they surely know them.
Come and spend a wonderful day in Antwerpen, visit the famous Notre Dame Abby and the end of the day have a great party at Bruno Mars’ concert. You won’t be disappointed!
The Régate de Baignoires was born in 1982 when a Belgian man acquired a bathtub a decided to race it on the Meuse River in Dinant, 100km south of Brussels. 30 years later it is now a major summer event.
The founder of the race, Alberto Serpagli, was inspired by a story about a Frenchman sailing down the river in tub. As part of his grand idea he acquired a batch of abandoned bathtubs and put them on sale. The first Régate de Baignoires was born on 15 August 1982 and has continued every year on the same day.
The regatta, held on the same day every year, has only grown since, as participants vie to create the most impressive bathtub-based craft to compete in the 1km race down Meuse.
This year, some 50 makeshift-boats will be celebrating “Films, past and present”. All crafts must be self-propelled (no motors allowed) to qualify for the event.
While a traditional bathtub must be incorporated somewhere in the flotation part of the craft, racers are at liberty to accessorise in creative ways around each year’s theme.
In honour of this year’s 30th anniversary, all bathtub boats will parade through the streets before they hit the water. During the parade, each creation will be judged on creativity, originality, relation to the year’s theme and relation to the city of Dinant, known for its still-standing Medieval architecture and being home to the inventor of the saxophone. Those results, in combination with the results of the race itself, will be used to award the prize to the winning team: a new car.
Participation and attendance for the event is free, and is expected to draw more than 25,000 visitors, with an antique car show, an arts and crafts fair and flamiche tasting, the local take on quiche, to round out the weekend’s celebrations.
