"One Love" on the banks of the Rhine: Sunshine Reggae Festival, the Alsace reggae festival to watch very closely

The visual produced by Sunshine Reggae Festival to celebrate being featured on Festival TV, over a photo of its crowd. © Sunshine Reggae Festival

There are festivals you cover, and festivals you adopt. On the morning of Saturday, November 14, Sunshine Reggae Festival published a thank-you message to Festival TV in three languages, with a visual in both houses' colours produced by the festival itself. The day before, it was already displaying Festival TV on the partners page of its official website. That is exactly what the festive spirit is: the celebration flows in both directions. So today, the light shines back on Rœschwoog — and it is well deserved: Sunshine is one of the festivals to watch very closely in France, and its next edition promises to be nothing short of explosive.

A story born on both banks of the Rhine

The story begins in 2011, in Rœschwoog, a small village in northern Alsace a few kilometres from the Rhine. The Franco-German association Multi Culturelle planted an open-air reggae festival there, on a human scale. Fifteen years later, the gathering has become a beacon: an audience from both banks of the river — from France, Germany and all over Europe — every generation together under the same sky, for the deep bass, the smiles and the encounters. Few festivals embody Franco-German friendship so concretely: here, it is not decreed — it is danced.

The 13th edition: June 25 and 26, 2027

The next edition — the 13th — will be held on Friday, June 25 and Saturday, June 26, 2027, on the fitness trail of Camping Staedly (30 rue de l'Étang, 67480 Rœschwoog), by the lake. The party starts on Friday at 6 p.m. and runs to the end of Saturday night: two days of reggae, roots & dub in the open air.

The 2027 line-up has not been unveiled yet — the festival will announce its first headliners from mid-November 2026, step by step, and this page will follow every announcement. But the memory of past editions sets the tone: Omar Perry and Anthony B & House of Riddim made the Staedly vibrate, and so did Sebastian Sturm — artists close to their audience, in the sound system and roots spirit that is Sunshine's DNA.

The Sunshine crowd at night, by the Staedly lake. © Sunshine Reggae Festival

The Sunshine added value: a family party, for real

What sets Sunshine apart is everything around the stage. Admission is free for children up to 12. The percussion workshop is free, open to every generation — the children on djembes, around Max Bousso, have become one of the festival's signature images. You sleep on site: the festival campsite welcomes tents and camper vans a few minutes' walk from the stage, and getting there by train is easy — Rœschwoog station is on the Strasbourg–Lauterbourg line. A festival designed as a whole weekend, not just a night out.

A local impact that radiates across the border

For Rœschwoog and northern Alsace, Sunshine is an engine: Camping Staedly is fully booked during the festival, visitors arrive from across the region and from the other side of the Rhine, and for one weekend the village becomes a small European capital of reggae. Carried by volunteers and a local association since 2011, the festival proves that a locally rooted event can shine far — all the way to Montreal, where Festival TV tells its story to its audience on both sides of the Atlantic.

The values: One Love, all tribes welcome

The 2027 edition's motto says it all: “One Love, One Sun” — all tribes are welcome. Sharing, cultural diversity, friendship between peoples: these are not slogans on a poster, they are fifteen years of practice. That is why Sunshine naturally belongs in the Festival TV family — and why this week's gesture touches us so much: that is exactly what the festive spirit is.

Festivals of the world: do like Sunshine

To every festival in our catalogue — 1,500 pages, and the family grows every week — the message is simple: your Festival TV page tells your story to a worldwide audience. Share it, display it on your pages and your websites, as Sunshine Reggae Festival did. The house will answer: relays, news editions, and the promise that your celebration will be seen far beyond your borders.

Box office: the €29 Early Bird ends tomorrow night

One last word, and it is urgent: the 2-day Early Bird Pass is €29 until Sunday, November 15, 2026 at 11:59 p.m. — after that, it goes up to €39 (the Super Early Bird is already sold out). Official box office: multiculturelle.ditix.shop. See you on June 25 and 26, 2027 in Rœschwoog: the Alsace reggae sun is rising, and Festival TV will be there to tell the story.

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Moïse 1er, the Festival Explorer / Montréal - Québec - Toronto - Canada