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TakeRoot Festival
The annual festival for Past, Present and Upcoming American Music at De Oosterpoort!

TakeRoot is organized by SPOT Groningen and the festivals home port is De Oosterpoort, Groningen.

Festival information
TakeRoot will take place on Saturday, November 1, 2025.
Location: De Oosterpoort Groningen
Tickets can be purchased at www.takeroot.nl. Tickets are now available.
In De Oosterpoort, payment is only possible with pin.

TakeFood
The chefs of SPOT Groningen will ensure that TakeRoot also becomes an (American) culinary party.

Accessibility
For information about the accessibility of and parking near De Oosterpoort, look here.
Note: The Q-Park parking garage next to De Oosterpoort is temporarily closed due to maintenance . Other parking garages within walking distance are P-Damsterdiep and P-Rademarkt. Payment can only be made at the parking garages themselves.

Stay overnight
Groningen is a fantastic city. If you are in Groningen for TakeRoot, take a moment to get to know the city even better. Below you will find options to turn a festival visit into a weekend away.
www.toerisme.groningen.nl/overnachten
www.hotels.nl/nl/groningen

Press
Press accreditation is intended for professional journalists and/or photographers who will be reporting on the TakeRoot festival. For high-res. images, requests for interviews with programmers and press accreditation, please contact:

PR & marketing TakeRoot:
marketing@spotgroningen.nl

Music with a soul, made by musicians with a story
The music festival TakeRoot offers a surprising music tour through America. One moment you’re in a Blue Motel, where a lonely singer-songwriter pours all his sorrow into song and through paper-thin walls, the next you’re in a country barn filled with partying country lovers. At the next stop, you’re surrounded by blues musicians, who seem to have arrived fresh off the plantation, or by Americanas, who prefer a campfire in the desert over Bright Lights and Big Cities. TakeRoot is always authentic, with musicians who have one thing in common: they know all about the highs and lows of life. Through song, they share their loneliness, pain and joy. They have no other choice. They live balls out and without brakes, get bruised but not beaten. From intimate singer-songwriters to raging bands: TakeRoot lets their stories be heard. TakeRoot not only offers a music tour through America, but also through time. It’s for good reason the festival carries the tagline ‘Past, Present and Upcoming American Music’. The United States remain a land of extremes, a melting pot filled to the brim with new influences and ideas. It is the birthing place of almost every major trend in pop music: blues, rock, country, folk, Americana, you name it. The music has always been able to innovate, just like its residents: rolling stones & traveling bones.

Keep an eye on www.takeroot.nl and our social media accounts for updates and more information.