CrowdMateFor Thursday through Saturday, September 3–5, the most coherent small-room itinerary in Brussels sits at Art Base, 29 rue des Sables. The venue’s coming programme places three sharply different bills on consecutive evenings, each beginning at 20:00: Guillaume Lepoutre & Cie’s ABYSSES on Thursday, SITARDUST & Uma Ramakrishnan on Friday, and the Paola Marquez Trio on Saturday. The sequence has the useful shape of a miniature festival, with a different musical geography each night and a consistent setting for listeners who prefer to follow a thread across a weekend.[1]
Art Base describes itself as an art centre in the heart of Brussels that presents both exhibitions and concerts. Its September calendar gives these three dates an especially clear arc: the Thursday listing is tagged “Swing, Jazz Manouche & more”; Friday is framed as “India & Belgium”; Saturday carries the concise invitation “Bossa Nova.” Those descriptions leave room for contrast while keeping the weekend anchored in acoustic-minded, musician-led performance.[1]
Thursday: Guillaume Lepoutre & Cie and the manouche starting point
The run begins Thursday, September 3, with ABYSSES — Swing Jazz Manouche & More: Guillaume Lepoutre & Cie. It is the most immediately legible entry point for a listener building a three-night plan: its billing names the swing and jazz-manouche language directly, while Lepoutre’s own site locates that tradition in the meeting of jazz swing, French chanson, musette and classical music. He presents his work as a Brussels-based professional jazz guitarist’s project, shaped around flexible small-group formats.[1][2]
That framework offers a practical way into the evening. Jazz manouche carries a rhythmic lift, yet its vocabulary also accommodates ballads, chanson and bossa-nova-adjacent colours in Lepoutre’s description of his group’s repertoire. “& More” in the Art Base title therefore feels like an invitation to hear the genre as a working band language, with the Brussels setting close at hand. Start here if the weekend calls for strings, swing momentum and an open-eared first chapter.[1][2]
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Friday: an India–Belgium encounter
Friday, September 4, shifts the frame with SITARDUST & Uma Ramakrishnan. Art Base bills the concert simply as “India & Belgium,” a useful cue to approach the night on its own terms instead of treating it as an extension of Thursday’s manouche set. The contrast is the point: across two consecutive 20:00 starts, the programme moves from a named European jazz tradition toward a cross-cultural meeting centred on SITARDUST and Ramakrishnan.[1]
This is the evening for listeners who enjoy a weekend guide with space between familiar reference points. Art Base’s wider September schedule continues to identify programmes through regions, traditions and instrumental lineages, including Balkan classical music, oriental jazz, Brazilian music and Indian classical music. Within that context, Friday’s India–Belgium billing reads as part of a house style that lets individual musical identities lead the room.[1]
Saturday: Paola Marquez Trio brings Latin roots and jazz
Saturday, September 5, closes the three-night stretch with PAOLA MARQUEZ TRIO: Latin Roots & Jazz. Art Base’s listing foregrounds bossa nova, while Márquez’s biography supplies the broader context: the Colombian singer is based in Belgium, studied jazz at the Ghent Conservatory, and describes a musical path connecting jazz with cumbia, bossa nova, tango, zamba and chacarera. That makes the final night a fitting conclusion to a programme built around movement between traditions.[1][3]
Márquez’s site also documents work with projects including Maguaré, Tengo el Tango and Anima Amici, alongside collaborations with local artists and guitarist Roni Ben-Hur. For this Art Base trio date, the useful expectation is breadth within the advertised Latin-roots-and-jazz frame, shaped by a vocalist whose stated musical background reaches across Colombian forms, Brazilian song and jazz practice in Belgium.[1][3]
Plan the three nights
All three concerts at Art Base are scheduled for 20:00: ABYSSES — Swing Jazz Manouche & More: Guillaume Lepoutre & Cie on Thursday, September 3; SITARDUST & Uma Ramakrishnan on Friday, September 4; and Paola Marquez Trio: Latin Roots & Jazz on Saturday, September 5. The venue is at 29 rue des Sables, 1000 Brussels. Check Art Base’s official page before leaving for current ticket, door and programme information, since live-event details can change.[1]
Sources
- Art Base — Coming Soon — Art Base
- Groupe de Jazz manouche — Guillaume Lepoutre
- Mi Historia — Paola Marquez