Brouwerij Van Steenberge

Rockabilly Day originated in 2001, when James Laureyns decided to organize a small meeting featuring Rockabilly music, classic cars and bikes, together with Oemtata vzw.
The basic and only idea was some kind of ‘lazy sunday afternoon’, where people could come and enjoy the sun, a beer, the bands and the cars…

First year started off with ‘the Wildcats’ (local Belgian band) and ‘the Seatsniffers’ (Belgium’s best rockabillyband ever) + a reasonable number of visitors, hence the decision to continue the event into 2002…

Over the last 8 years, Rockabilly Day has been growing steadily (nearly 5000 visitors last year), now featuring 8 bands (some of them international), a larger number of cars & bikes (some even from Holland, Germany, France and the U.K.!), trophies, rockabilly DJ, a small, but cosy marketplace with retro clothing and articles, vinyl & CD’s…

Gradually, Rockabilly Day has been growing from its humble beginnings to a small, but very enjoyable one-day festival, open to all kinds of visitors (even complete families) willing to take the time-machine back to the fifties for one single afternoon (although some of the die-hard fans never seem to have quit living in this particular time).

Especially over the last 3 years, the new concept of ‘Rockabilly Day’ was established: a roots-Rockabilly event, showing special interest in 50’ lifestyle, clothing, hotrods & kustoms. The only intention of this being to provide an ‘overdose’ of Rockabilly lifestyle to the general public, featuring quiffs, black leather and roll-up jeans ‘cats’ and pony-tailed ‘chicks’… Don’t forget to throw in some leopard skin and flames and you should be able to get the general picture we aim at…

Our philosophy is to stay true to the ‘Rockabilly spirit’, after all, this is currently the only festival of its kind in Belgium dedicated to the combination of Rockabilly music and classic cars, hotrods, kustoms, bikes… We never intend to become as big as other festivals like ‘Hemsby’ or ‘Rockabilly Rave’ (UK) or ‘Viva Las Vegas’ (USA), instead we will do everything to keep this festival plain, simple and enjoyable for everyone.

If only we could bring the athmosphere of these bigger festivals at affordable prices to you for just one single afternoon each year, we would be more than happy…

So keep on ROCKIN’!
www.rockabillyday.be