PATRICK DE GROOTE

Patrick is an experienced artistic director and festival organiser, with a large international professional network.
He’s head of ‘Sfinks Mixed’, an open air global music festival attracting over 100.000 people annually. This year’s edition featured Yemi Alade, Salif Keita, and lots of new talent worldwide.
He also directs the multi-disciplinary summer festival ‘zomer van antwerpen’ in Belgium programming over 800 events per year for an audience of +300.000 people.
Patrick is also consulting and co-organising various international events, and is running the international festival network FWMF.