Grolloo remembered blues singer Harry Muskee on Friday 25 September with a concert in the church, which had sold out long in advance. On Saturday and Sunday, an exhibition of seventeen works of art about him was on show there.

Muskee, the singer of Cuby & The Blizzards, died on 26 September 2011 in Rolde, where he lived, exactly fifteen years before the Saturday of the commemorative weekend. The Stichting Kerk19 Grolloo organised the weekend together with the C+B Museum and café Hofsteenge.

On Friday evening, Egbert Meijers opened the exhibition and spoke about the Grolloo of the 1960s, when Muskee came to live close to his parents' house, and about his last conversation with the singer, shortly before his death.

Then Robbert Fossen and, after the interval, the Cat Fever Band played an acoustic blues concert with songs by Cuby & The Blizzards and by musicians who inspired Muskee. When they played together at the end, the whole audience was dancing and clapping along between the pews.

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N376 near Rolde to close for maintenance and safer bends

September 17, 2026 2 min read

The province of Drenthe is closing the N376 between the roundabout at the N33 and the one at Marwijksoord from Monday 21 September to Friday 9 October inclusive. During those weeks the asphalt will be maintained and the bends made safer.

The N33 slip roads at that roundabout will also close. Anyone driving to Nooitgedacht will only be able to enter the village via Borgerderstraat until 9 October, writes the Rolderpost, Rolde's village paper.

Through traffic will be diverted along other provincial roads via Gieten, with yellow signs along the route, and the province warns of longer journey times. According to the paper, local traffic can also take the back roads, via Nijlande and Klaassteenweg or via Hoornse Bulten; work on those two roads that the municipality of Aa en Hunze had already announced has been postponed.

Cyclists can still use the cycle path on the west side of the road, while the one on the east side will close for a new top layer. Traffic signs will also be changed.

People who live along the road will still be able to reach their homes, although this may at times be difficult while the asphalt is being laid; the contractor will then let residents know in advance. The province has made arrangements with the emergency services beforehand, so that they can reach the scene in time in an emergency.

The weather may still change the schedule. Residents with questions can contact the province's customer contact centre, the Klant Contact Centrum, on 0592 365 555.

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Roldermarkt Sunday starts with some 650 people at breakfast

September 6, 2026 · 2 min read

The free breakfast of the Roldermarkt, Rolde's annual village fair, drew some 650 people to the marquee on the Grote Brink on Sunday 6 September, considerably more than last year, the village paper Rolderpost reports. Anno Wietze Hiemstra, mayor of Aa en Hunze, opened the breakfast.

In his opening words, Hiemstra praised what local businesses do and pointed out how much food is produced in the area itself; in his view, residents could enjoy it and benefit from it more often. Several products on the tables had cards next to them reading ‘Local tastes better’.

The breakfast is a tradition of the Ondernemersvereniging Rolde en omstreken, the local business association; baker Ko Pots wrote the first running order for it more than fifteen years ago. The tables held rolls with all kinds of fillings, eggs, fruit and drinks, among other things, and most of it came from businesses in and around Rolde.

Later in the morning came the horse fair, from 11am to 5pm in the centre of Rolde and for the first time on a Sunday. Until last year it was part of the market Tuesday, but the OVVR, the association that organises the Roldermarkt, moved it because it was getting harder and harder to bring horse traders to Rolde. The association expects more people to have time on a Sunday to bring or buy horses, ponies and donkeys.

The sunken N33 at the Gieten interchange in 2024

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Work at the Gieten junction closes the N33 and N34 in the evenings and at night

Roldermarkt Sunday starts with some 650 people at breakfast

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