(The Netherlands, 1970) is a presenter, producer, actor and voice-over artist specializing in music, literature, arts and culture. After graduating as actor from the Toneelschool Amsterdam he was a member, among others, of the ensemble of the Nationale Toneel. He was a presenter at Amsterdam-based broadcaster AT5 and a radio producer with the KRO on national network NPO Radio 1. He narrates audio books, and was shortlisted for the Storytel Award 2019 for Best Audio Book with his reading of Ilja Leonard Pfeijffer's novel Grand Hotel Europa. Until last year, he presented on radio station Sublime the daily morning show Sublime Sunrise, the Instagram poetry programme Sublime Smooth and evening show The Sublime Experience. In 2025 he wrote and hosted the tv-series Kringlopen met Francis on regional Dutch broadcaster NH. Broekhuijsen works for Writers Unlimited as festival curator and presenter.

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is a young Cape Verdean group from Rotterdam, whose music is inspired by Cape Verdean artists from an older generation, such as Code di Dona, Bulimundo, Américo Brito and, of course, Bitori. The group has a fresh and contemporary take on funaná, the upbeat, energetic and festive music and dance style once forbidden by Portuguese colonial rulers, which became part of post-independence Cape Verdean identity in the eighties. Funaná was derived from the music played by the descendants of slaves, mixed with contemporary pop and jazz. The foundation is formed by the diatonic accordion (gaita) and the rasping sound of the ferrinho, a notched metal bar played like a Caribbean guiro. Tabanka knows how to put on an exuberant live show that makes it impossible to stand still.