Sfinks Festival in Boechout
The principle reason Tourism Flanders invited me to Antwerp was to cover the Sfinks Mixed music festival in Boechout. Sfinks bills itself as a festival “for young and old, families with children and adventurous music lovers… an exploratory excursion into enriching cultures.”
Starting in 1975, Sfinks Mixed began as a small folk festival in a local school park. Since then, it has grown into a three-day multicultural smorgasbord of musicians with a few circus performers and cultural acts thrown in to spice things up in the open areas.
Even approaching Sfinks, the world culture atmosphere is obvious. A small market for visitors has formed outside the gates with a funky Bohemian multi-culti vibe which hints at what’s to come. A man dressed in Touareg garb hawks silver jewelry to tribal teens and grannies with bongos Continue…