• MADEIRADiG Festival 2024 — 28th November — 3rd December

    • We had a adventurous and beautiful final MADEIRADiG. Thanks to everyone who was there and the many years of loyalty. Stay safe, healthy and happy in the new year 2025.

    While the rest of Europe is cold and dreary, experience some of the most formidable avant garde musicians in the world and stay in a gorgeous design hotel located on a clifftop in the middle of the Atlantic Ocean.

    This intimate festival on the mountainous volcanic island of Madeira features a challenging line-up, a landscape to match and wonderful spring temperatures. We have 4 days of concerts on the main stage of Casa das Mudas. There are additional concerts and activities at the John Dos Passos Cultural Centre in Ponta do Sol, including, hangouts on the clifftop at the Estalagem da Ponta do Sol.

    For the best festival experience, we recommend that you stay with us, your fellow guests, and our artists in the most beautiful village in whole Madeira, Ponta do Sol.

    MADEIRADiG is organized by APCA-Madeira in collaboration w/ Digital in Berlin, Estalagem da Ponta do Sol and MUDAS — Museu de Arte Contemporânea da Madeira. The 2024 edition is funded by República Portuguesa – Cultura / Direção-Geral das Artes.

    The festival kicks off on Thursday 28, November, with Polish guitar mastermind Raphael Rogiński at the John Dos Passos Cultural Centre.

    We continue at Casa Da Mudas, on Friday and Saturday presenting Ukrainian sound artist Oleh Shpudeiko aka Heinali, Norwegian saxophonist Bendik Giske, Berlin-based experimental trio Contagious (Andrea Neumann, Sabine Ercklentz and Mieko Suzuki) and American guitarist David Grubbs.

    Continuing on Sunday and Monday with British electronic musician Nik Cold Void together with digital artist MAOTIK, Portuguese pianist Simão Costa, San Francisco-based noise experimentalist evicshen and multi-talented turntablist NikNak.

    Back in Ponta do Sol, we finish off on Tuesday, December 3 with Scottish bagpiper Brìghde Chaimbeul, playing the traditional Great Highland bagpipe. Afterwards, we usually head to the vivid village lane for final drinks and to say goodbye.