Davina Michelle is the headline name here, but the real booking change is Navenant's move into F1 in Zandvoort. Coen says the twenty-member brass ensemble will play one of its biggest shows to date there.
Coen's Thursday pitch
Thursday in Afslag Zuid brought the detail that matters most: Navenant had already reached out last year, but the music program for that edition was already set. Coen said, "Dit jaar hebben we weer de stoute schoenen aangetrokken, weer alles gemaild en gebeld."
When the group came back this year, it did so with a stronger case. Navenant had just won Te Land, Ter Zee en In De Lucht last year and became Nederlands kampioen this year, and Coen said the organization responded once that package was on the table.
Zandvoort circuit sets
Navenant will not be parked in one corner of the event. The brass ensemble will move across several places along the Zandvoort circuit, with sets during pauses, during the race, and while people eat in the food area.
Coen said, "We gaan het publiek zoveel mogelijk meenemen in in de muziek" and added, "Er zal geklappen worden, er zal gezongen worden en dan gaan we eigenlijk maar één ding doen en dat is één groot feestje bouwen." The plan turns the booking into a working show, not background music, and that gives the group a larger footprint than a standard stage slot.
Dries Roelvink and René Froger
The setlist is built to travel fast across a crowd. It includes time-honored classics, Nederpop, songs by Dries Roelvink and René Froger, and the F1 themesong, which Coen said could even be played as part of the rotation.
That mix tells you how the performance is being pitched: broad enough for a race-weekend crowd, but specific enough to mark Navenant as a brass act trying to turn a one-off booking into a repeatable calling card. Coen said the Zandvoort date will be one of the group's biggest performances to date, and he has already joked about following Red Bull, the team of Max Verstappen, to more races.
For now, the only hard edge left is timing. Navenant has the slot at F1 in Zandvoort, the show is set to stretch across the circuit, and Coen is already thinking beyond that first outing — even saying, "Sluit ook Abu Dhabi en Monaco niet uit."
