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One of the Top 5 Best Rock Concerts That You Can Attend In Europe: The Sziget Festival

Top 5 Best Rock Concerts In Europe: The Sziget Festival

Entertainment April 22, 2015 by Jack Dawson

The assortment of rock concerts that are world events these days is quite widespread. Every continent in the world has a rock festival that it can be proud of. If you love music and you love to travel as well, you need to check out the event traveler’s rock festival guide before planning for a holiday in rock.

Below are the highlights of one of the largest and most famous rock festivals in Europe.

Background

The Sziget Festival (Sziget is a Hungarian word meaning Island) is one of the top five major cultural and music festivals in Europe. The festival takes place in Budapest, the capital of Hungary. The interesting thing about the location is that the event happens on a very green, two hundred, and sixty-six-acre island on the Danube River.

The island also hosts over a thousand performances every year. The festival takes place over a period of about seven days in August. The Sziget Festival has its origins as a low-key student event that began in 1993. The festival is currently one of the five most prominent music festivals on the European continent, attracting a large international audience.

Apart from music, the festival has become synonymous with dance, cinema, theatre, tennis, tattooing, football, indoor rowing, bungee jumping, rock climbing, and foosball. This makes the event a must-go for people with different interests to sustain their curiosity and interest throughout the 7 days of entertainment.

Attendance

The first event was mainly headlined by Hungarian artists and had an attendance of about 43,000 revelers. The second event in 1994 got notoriety by getting the label the European Woodstock and had artists from the Original Woodstock based in New York performing at the event. The 1994 festival was attended by 143,000 visitors, a leap of about 100,000 more attendants than the first year’s event.

By 2001, after steady growth in attendance each year, the festival had over 365,000 people attending the events over the period of the festival. The average attendance throughout the years has been between 365,000 and 385,000, with more years experiencing the upper limit of this average.

By 2011, this festival had ranked as one of the five best festivals in Europe. Last year, 2014, the Sziget Festival experienced the highest attendance yet, with about 415,000 attendants attending the festival over the 7 day August period. The main artists in 2014 even included;

Korn

Outkast

Blink-182

Jimmy Eat World and

Prodigy amongst many other artists. 

Stages and the music

the main stages at the Sziget Festival have different attractions and the main ones include.

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Jack Dawson is a web developer and UI/UX specialist at BigDropInc.com. He works at a design, branding, and marketing firm, having founded the same firm 9 years ago. He likes to share knowledge and points of view with other developers and consumers on platforms.

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