Reeperbahn Festival is a music festival and industry conference in Hamburg’s St. Pauli district. The 2026 edition ran from 16 to 19 September 2026 with about 800 program items.
The conference hosts The Sound of Solutions, a startup contest organized with MusicTech Germany, Wavelab and Music WorX (Hamburg Kreativ Gesellschaft). Eight startups pitch for five minutes each to a jury and the audience, for prizes worth more than €15,000 in kind. MusicTech Germany’s Music Frontiers conference ran inside the festival in 2026.
For 2025 the organizer projected about 45,000 visitors and up to 6,000 trade visitors from more than 40 countries. The next edition runs 15 to 18 September 2027. Reeperbahn Festival is a founding member of the Federation of Music Conferences.
Sources: Reeperbahn Festival 2026 press text, call for startups.