World Heritage Festival Bad Ems
5 years of UNESCO World Heritage – with an international headliner. Right in the heart of Bad Ems.
- Client
- City of Bad Ems · World Heritage Office
- Date
- 24 July 2026
- Project
- Artist booking, organisation, promotion & PR
- Headliner
- Benedict Cork (London)
World Heritage Festival at the Quellenturm · Photo: © Helge Articusof UNESCO World Heritage – celebrated to the day
acts and hands-on activities on and off stage
World premiere of “Rest of our Lives” – played live for the first time
a festival for the whole town
On 24 July 2026, Bad Ems celebrated exactly five years as part of the UNESCO World Heritage site “Great Spa Towns of Europe” – with a summer festival at the newly restored Quellenturm. We supported the City of Bad Ems with organisation, artist booking, promotion and PR. And we brought the headliner to Bad Ems ourselves: London singer-songwriter Benedict Cork.
Cork, whom Sir Elton John called “sensational” and who has opened for Stevie Wonder and Lionel Richie, among others, came to the river Lahn in the middle of his album preview tour between New York, Los Angeles, Berlin and Amsterdam – and played the world premiere of “Rest of our Lives”, the support song for Superhelden fliegen vor written by Mirko Klos. Proof that international artists do come to small towns and rural regions when you approach them the right way.
What we did
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Idea, first contact and booking of headliner Benedict Cork
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Organisation around Benedict Cork’s performance
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Support with the programme and artist booking for the festival night
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Social media graphics
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Instagram campaign with countdown and line-up carousel
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Press work and hosting the anniversary press conference
What it achieved
A festival that showed Bad Ems as a living World Heritage site – and as a stage for international artists.
- A packed festival on the banks of the Lahn between the Quellenturm and the spa quarter
- A celebrated stage programme – from French Cajun and hot jazz to light art on the tower
- An international headliner in a small town in a rural region
Impact
- The “5 years of UNESCO World Heritage” anniversary as a festival for the whole town
- Bad Ems made visible as a place for international culture
- World premiere of a song by Mirko Klos for Superhelden fliegen vor