Redhead Days festival draws thousands to Tilburg for 2025 edition

Thousands of redheads from around the world converged on Tilburg in the southern Netherlands from August 29 to 31 for the 2025 edition of Redhead Days, a three-day festival that drew several thousand participants from about 80 countries to celebrate shared hair color, community and related health issues. The event featured live music, food trucks and workshops aimed at needs specific to people with natural red hair, including makeup tutorials and sessions on skin cancer prevention.

Organizers said the festival is largely free and designed to be accessible, with only a few ticketed events such as pub crawls and kickoff parties. The weekend culminated Sunday with the signature group photograph, restricted to people with natural red hair, in which hundreds of participants posed in this year’s theme color of blue. Festival materials noted that the gathering continues a tradition that in 2013 set a Guinness World Record when 1,672 natural redheads posed for a single photo.

Attendees described the event as a mix of reunion, relief and celebration. Elounda Bakker, 29, a 15-year festival veteran, said she initially attended out of curiosity and returned because she "met some really nice...