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The profile · researched 11 October 2026
Eight Moluccan-Dutch musicians, a fortnight's rehearsal, and the road from SBS6 to AFAS Live
Treasure are the Dutch eight-piece who were assembled in roughly a week and a half to enter a television tribute contest in 2024, won it in March 2025, and have since sold close to 50,000 tickets on their own name. Their largest headline show to date lands at AFAS Live in Amsterdam on 31 October 2026.
Assembled for a format, not for a scene
Treasure did not emerge from a circuit of pub gigs. The band came together in March 2024 for a specific and narrow purpose: to enter the fourth series of The Tribute: Battle of the Bands, the SBS6 competition in which tribute acts play against one another. Lead singer Steven Smits, who is from Eindhoven, put the group together with guitarist Dominggus Pfaff and six other players, and the whole line-up was recruited and rehearsed in about a week and a half. Smits grew up in a musical household — his father worked as a professional guitarist and his mother sings.
The eight are Smits on lead vocals, Daryl Jay Kyle and Jefferson Da Veiga Dias on vocals, Dylano Yamil Blok-Umarella on talkbox, Shaquille Pentury on bass, Denzell Leha on keyboards, Pfaff on guitar and Myron Matitawaer on drums. All of them are of Moluccan-Indonesian descent, and most were born in the Netherlands. Smits has framed that heritage as central rather than incidental: the musicality travelled with their families to the Netherlands, and part of the point of the band is to carry it back. The ambition he described after the series was to tour Asia eventually, and the group took its name from one of Mars's own singles.
That origin matters for how the band sounds. Eight players recruited for their individual chops rather than grown slowly out of a shared rehearsal room produces a particular kind of tribute act — one whose strength is precision and arrangement rather than the looseness of a band that has spent years finding each other.
The win, and three nights at the Ziggo Dome
Treasure won the final of The Tribute: Battle of the Bands on Saturday 9 March 2025. Smits's reaction the following day was flat and delighted in equal measure — he called it a madhouse, said it was incredible, and put the band's rise down to drive and talking to each other properly. He also drew a line about what the project is for: honouring Mars's name rather than chasing his personal attention.
The prize was not a record deal but stage time at scale. As winners the band played The Tribute – Live in Concert at the Ziggo Dome on 17, 18 and 19 April 2025, three nights that Smits said had sold out immediately. For a group barely a year old that was an unusual jump: from a television studio to one of the largest indoor rooms in the Netherlands inside six weeks.
At the time Smits said the plan for the months after was a club tour, a theatre tour, and writing original material in the same R&B, soul, funk and pop territory Mars works in. The touring half of that plan is what has actually happened.
Close to 50,000 tickets on the theatre circuit
What followed the television win was a long, unglamorous run through Dutch and Belgian theatres and clubs rather than a one-off victory lap. By late November 2025 Mojo, which handles the band's booking, was describing that run as a nearly sold-out club and theatre tour totalling close to 50,000 tickets, alongside the three Ziggo Dome appearances.
The 2026 leg has taken in Stadsschouwburg Antwerpen on 30 January, Theater Heerlen on 18 February and Schouwburg Het Park in Hoorn on 2 March, with Theater De Lievekamp in Oss on 17 September. These are seated theatre rooms in the several-hundred to low-thousands range, not arenas, and the show has been built for them: a two-act structure with an interval, which is how Dutch theatre programming works and which has shaped the band's running order more than any arena logic would.
Ticket pricing sits where mid-tier Dutch theatre sits. The Maaspoort in Venlo lists standard seats at €37.50 to €44.50 for the band's date there, with a €15 youth price released 48 hours before the show.
The catalogue, and the bits that are not Bruno Mars
The repertoire is drawn from across Mars's run rather than weighted to one album. Theatre listings and reviews name 'Locked Out of Heaven', 'Just the Way You Are', 'That's What I Like', 'Grenade', 'Marry You', '24K Magic', 'Uptown Funk', 'Runaway Baby', 'Versace on the Floor', 'When I Was Your Man', 'Die With a Smile' and the title song, plus material from the Silk Sonic project. The talkbox in the line-up is a tell: Blok-Umarella's part exists because the 24K Magic-era records need it, and most tribute acts simply leave it out.
Two things in the set are not Mars at all, and they are the parts reviewers keep writing about. One is 'Hio Hio', a Moluccan-Indonesian song sung by Daryl Jay Kyle, performed in Hoorn on 2 March 2026 with the Moluccan flag lit behind the band. The other is a stretch in the second half where the whole group sits together on a sofa for acoustic and a cappella arrangements, trading anecdotes between songs — in Hoorn that section was built around 'The Lazy Song'.
That pairing is what separates the act from the several other Bruno Mars tributes working the same territory. The choreographed, full-band half does the job a tribute is hired to do; the sofa half and the Moluccan song are the band appearing as itself.
What the reviews say
Sascha Siereveld gave the Antwerp show of 30 January 2026 four stars for concertnews.be. The argument was straightforwardly practical: Mars does not tour Belgium, which makes Treasure the next best thing for anyone who wants those songs in a room. The review credited the eight-piece with recreating both the sound and the look, singled out the a cappella passages and the acoustic sofa stretch in the second half, and noted that the band got a notoriously reserved Flemish audience singing along. Kyle's 'Hio Hio' drew specific praise.
Maxazine's notice of the Hoorn show on 2 March 2026 went further on the musicianship, calling the group not merely a good tribute band but a capable band in its own right, and picking out the attention to detail and the family-like chemistry between the eight. More than 25 songs were played, closing on 'Just the Way You Are'. The reviewer recorded audiences leaving the theatre describing the band as enormously talented and the characters on stage as funny, and going straight to buy tickets for the Amsterdam date in October.
Ticketmaster's own listing for the act carries a five-star rating from a small number of reviews, which is too thin a sample to mean much on its own but points the same way as the press.
Where things stand in October 2026
The date everything has been pointing at is AFAS Live in Amsterdam on Saturday 31 October 2026, doors at 18:30 and on stage at 20:00. It went on sale at 10:00 on Friday 20 June 2025 from €43.68 including fees, and Mojo has billed it from the start as the band's biggest concert so far — their first headline show at that scale rather than a slot on someone else's bill. Mojo's own page for the night now reads uitverkocht, while the AFAS Live listing still points at Ticketmaster, so anyone still looking should expect resale rather than primary stock.
Beyond that the diary is short. Three dates are currently on sale: SPOT De Oosterpoort in Groningen on 22 October 2026 at 20:30, the AFAS Live show nine days later, and the Maaspoort in Venlo on 4 March 2027 at 20:15. A thin forward schedule is normal for a band that routes theatre blocks and announces them late, and the Venlo date confirms the theatre circuit continues into 2027 after the Amsterdam show.
The open question is the original material. Smits talked in March 2025 about writing the band's own songs in Mars's idiom, and about taking the group's Moluccan-Indonesian musicality to Asia. Eighteen months on, the touring has plainly come first.
The show, now
A Treasure show in 2026 and 2027 is a seated theatre night in two acts with an interval, running roughly an hour and three quarters — the Maaspoort in Venlo lists the 4 March 2027 performance as 20:15 to 22:05 — with no support act on any listing. The first half is the choreographed, full-band treatment of the hits: Antwerp on 30 January 2026 ran 13 songs before the break and 13 after, taking in 'Uptown Funk', 'Grenade', 'Versace on the Floor', '24K Magic', 'That's What I Like' and Silk Sonic material, and the Hoorn show on 2 March 2026 passed 25 songs in total, closing on 'Just the Way You Are'. The second half opens out: a cappella passages, and a stretch where all eight sit together on a sofa for acoustic arrangements and anecdotes, built in Hoorn around 'The Lazy Song'. The band also plays 'Hio Hio', a Moluccan-Indonesian song sung by Daryl Jay Kyle, with the Moluccan flag lit behind them. Staging is lighting-led rather than video-heavy, and the eight-piece carries a talkbox, which most Mars tributes omit. Reviews are warm and specific: four stars in Antwerp from concertnews.be, which called the band the next best thing for Belgian fans given Mars does not tour there and noted they got a reserved crowd singing; Maxazine in Hoorn judged them a capable band in their own right rather than only a good tribute, praising the detail and the chemistry between the players. Theatre tickets run about €37.50 to €44.50, with €15 youth seats released 48 hours ahead at Venlo; the AFAS Live headline on 31 October 2026 opens doors at 18:30 for a 20:00 start and was priced from €43.68, though the promoter's page for that night now shows it as sold out.
Researched from concertnews.be · omroepbrabant.nl · maxazine.nl · frontview-magazine.be · zubb.nl · mojo.nl · afaslive.nl · maaspoort.nl