The 2017 Strand Festival was a huge success

Strand Festival came to end last weekend, which also marks the end of this summer’s festival season. It was a lovely few days filled with joy, sunshine, water fun, incredible performers, exciting programmes and the rhythm of Lake Balaton 🙂

It was the fifth year that Strand Festival (along with B.my.Lake) was held as part of the MOL Nagyon Balaton (Much Balaton) programme series. The event series aims to present the most prestigious and exciting programmes at Lake Balaton to international and inland tourists, and to encourage the leaders of cultural enterprises to come up with new events, festivals.

The main events of the programme series are the Strand and B.my.Lake festivals, which attracted a record amount of visitors this year. “We feel that it is our task to increase the different touristic indices of the region even outside of the main season. The MOL Nagyon Balaton events attracted more than one million people altogether, while the two festivals had 125 thousand visitors” said Norbert Lobenwein, the head of the company.

The biggest interest was shown towards the performances of Parov Stelar and John Newman, two of Strand Festival’s headliners. John Newman put on an amazing full-house concert and even ensured us that he believes that Strand Festival has the best atmosphere and is of the highest standard. Besides the concerts, the most popular programmes were the open-air cinema, the campfire and the daily quizzes.