Sziget Festival

Sziget passes sold-out

Sziget Festival has reached a new milestone by selling out all of the 7 Days Passes before July. The Island of Freedom will also set a new record in the number of nationalities represented at the event, as presales ticket buyers come from a total of 102 countries.

Important hint for late-buyers: day tickets are still available, but make sure you decide quickly!

The Budapest-based major festival has attracted a growing number of visitors for the last years and – in spite of an increased capacity – has already sold all 5 Days and 7 Days Passes for the 2016 edition. All Sziget passes include camping possibility, so the organizers also wanted to make sure Szitizens staying onsite can find enough places for their tents.

‘2016 is clearly a record-breaking year for us. We’ve never sold so many tickets so quickly, which is good for the company as well. Besides working as hard as we can, we’re also very proud of the fact that fans from all over the world trust us and join us for this magic week!’ – said Tamas Kadar, CEO of Sziget Cultural Management. ‘Of course we’re also happy to welcome visitors with day tickets, but I would like to urge everybody not to leave buying these at the last moment, because the quantity is limited’.

More information and day tickets available at szigetfestival.com.

Photo: Hölvényi Kristóf – Rockstar Photographers 

Sziget 2016 program is now ready

Sziget, the week-long festival in the middle of Budapest, has a colorful and exciting program variety that is now considered ready. The more than 1500 programs taking place non-stop on the island can now be checked on the festival website. Less than 5% of the Sziget passes are available at the moment and with the current sales dynamic they will most probably sell out by the end of June.

A beautiful green island on the Danube, is the location of the non-stop music and arts festival, Sziget, in the middle of August. The program is now complete and there will be around 1500 things to do during the 168 hours. The multicultural gathering where Szitizens are already coming from 98 countries will be a massive celebration. The Main Stage will host The Chemical Brothers, Rihanna, Manu Chao La Ventura, Muse, David Guetta, SIA, Hardwell, Die Antwoord, Jake Bugg, Bastille, John Newman, Sigur Rós, Tinie Tempah, Years & Years, Kaiser Chiefs, Noel Gallagher’s High Flying Birds, The Lumineers, The Last Shadow Puppets and more! The OTP Bank A38 stage will bring its well-known vibrant atmosphere this year with: MØ, Travis Scott, Kovacs, Editors, Unkle, Kodaline, Róisín Murphy, Boy, Bloc Party, Tourist, The Neighborhood, CHVRCHES, M83, Fidlar, Jess Gylnne, Crystal Castles and many many more! The electronic party scene will shift this time as well to the Telekom Arena where Afrojack, Vinai, Dyro, Fedde Le Grand, DVBBS, Zedd, Nicky Romero, Laidback Luke and many more will entertain Szitizens. Moreover more than 10 other stages will wait the music lovers with different genres as well as more than 40 other program venues, where art, fun and many activities will be in the focus!

Károly Gerendai, founder of Sziget Festival, said:

“If tickets will sell with this dynamic, they will be sold by the end of June. After this point only day tickets will be available that are also selling out with record-speed. Our previous experience was that day tickets were bought on-the-spot, but now more than 40% of day tickets are sold in advance.”

Those who wish to get their Sziget tickets in time can do it HERE!
Complete program is available HERE!

Sziget 2016 – The Chemical Brothers, Tinie Tempah and more

The line-up of Sziget Festival is getting more and more diverse, representing all genres. This time The Chemical Brothers, Tinie Tempah, Editors, BOY, BØRNS, Fedde Le Grand, Laidback Luke and many more were added to the line-up. This one is the last major music announcement of the 7 day festival, as the program is almost ready. Tickets are selling out with record speed, so those who would like to party non-stop for 7 days and enjoy the Sziget vibe, should definitely act now.

The program of more the more than 50 program venues are continuously being added to the seven days of fun of the Island of Freedom. At Sziget visitors cannot only enjoy the biggest acts playing on the Main Stage and other popular venues, but also discover exciting installations, programs and many art forms as contemporary circus, theatre, dance, street theatres and many more! The non-stop program variety of the seven days is almost ready, the detailed schedule is coming up next week.

On the Main Stage The Chemical Brothers will be performing on 10 August and Tinie Tempah on 14 August. For the past twenty years, The Chemical Brothers have redefined the idea of live electronic music. All the while, it has adhered to the same basic idea: that the gig should create its own transcendent audio/visual space where the audience can lose themselves for the duration of the set. Tinie Tempah, the British rapper will definitely bring some great vibes to the Main Stage. He remains one of the most likeable pop stars today.

The OTP Bank A38 Stage is happy to host Editors, who are now officially back, the charismatic duo of Valeska Steiner and Sonja Glass aka BOY, American musician and singer BØRNS as well as Wiwek, Snails, Maduk ft. MC Mota, Noisia ‘Outer Edges’ and Kasra.

The gigantic tent of electronic music has also a pretty good number of names, where next to the already announced acts of Afrojack, Vinai, Dyro, DVBBS, Zedd, Nicky Romero now Jay Hardway, Volt&State, Fedde Le Grand, D-Wayne, Tujamo and Laidback Luke have been added. The Telekom Arena will also host Apster, StadiumX, Breathe Carolina, Nick Talos, Blinders, 2empress, Ravitez, Las Salinas and Yves V.

Tickets are selling out this year with record-speed. The 5 days passes are no longer available and more than 90% of the 7 days passes are already sold. So, those who would like to enjoy the 7 days of the Island of Freedom should hurry up.

Tickets and information: www.szigetfestival.com 

Photo: László Mudra – Rockstar Photographers – http://www.facebook.com/festivalphotographers

Sziget Festival 2016: record turnout expected

Sziget Festival is once again expecting a record turnout as already 90% of the passes are sold. Szitizens come already from 95 countries, so Sziget will once again become a giant multi-cultural gathering with 7 days of great music, arts and many more. Sziget is held on a beautiful green island in the middle of Budapest between 10-17 August.

The Island of Freedom is one of the best-known and most international festivals, taking its own path and highlighting the fact that it’s a lot more than just a sequence of concerts. Sziget has been elected the ‘Best Major European Festival’ several times and last year’s Island of Freedom was awarded as the festival with the ‘Best Line-Up’ in Europe. The 7 days non-stop festival does not only host well-known acts from all genres, but non-musical programs are at least as important as the main stage acts. Sziget traditionally presents a huge variety of artistic projects, also showcasing non-musical programs, like circus, theatre, dance, exhibitions and so on. Besides, it’s also an important Sziget-mission to give space to the colourful world of music, so opera, folk music, world music, or classical tunes are all strongly represented at the festival.

The 2016 festival already welcomes Szitizens from 95 countries, so it is guaranteed that it will once again be a huge international, multi-cultural gathering with a lot of fun. 5 Days Passes are already sold out for more than a month now, but 10% of the 7 days passes are still available, so those who want to be part of this experience should get their tickets as soon as possible. Those coming for couple of days can put together their Sziget time with day tickets, available also in a limited number. Although the upgrade campsites are no longer available, camping spots are available on the festival area with services in the Sziget City Center.

Tickets and information: www.szigetfestival.com

Sziget reveals names for Colosseum venue

Sziget Festival is known for 7 days of non-stop programs at more than 50 venues. Here visitors can encounter all music genres and probably all art forms as well. The Colosseum venue built entirely by pallets will once again host numerous electro DJs, who will definitely bring the beats to this artsy location. Tickets for Sziget are selling out real quick and advanced round tickets for a discounted price are available until 5th May.

Colosseum is one of the most beloved electro venues at Sziget Festival. The open-air round-shape installation opens every day at noon and does not stop till sunrise. This year the built-up itself will come to a new life, but the much awaited acts of the genre will not change. This year the main acts of the venue operating for 7 days will feature Tale Of Us, The Martinez Brothers, Mind Against, Sasha, Sharam, Sam Paganini, Butch, John Digweed, Max Cooper, Woo York (live), Pulsinger & IRL, Kevin Luke, &Me, Boddika, Behrouz, Mendo, Johannes Heil, Dorisburg (live), Nastia and Demi.

Tickets are selling out real quick for this year’s Sziget Festival and passes for a discounted price are available until 5th May. So those who would like to feel the real Sziget vibe, should definitely get their tickets in time.

More names, venues, programs will arrive in the upcoming weeks!

Tickets and information: http://pressemail.szigetfestival.com/i/8Fqo6zrnHXKBpdZL2nKclrg8WID3App4

Security to be tightened at 2016 Sziget Festival

Budapest, April 19 (MTI) – Security measures will be tightened at this year’s Sziget Festival in the interest of the safety of visitors, the chief organiser said on Tuesday.

The identity of every ticket holder will be checked at the entry points which will be surveilled by cameras, Péter Gerendai told a press conference, adding that security services will be present at the venue with an increased staff.

Migration will be one of the main themes addressed at several programmes at this year’s festival which will be held between August 10 and 17, said Jozsef Kardos, a programme organiser.

Related programmes will include a performance by the Maxim Gorki Theatre from Berlin, a travelling exhibition of the National museum for the history of immigration from Paris, as well as several roundtable discussions and film screenings, he said.

Antonio Guterres, the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees between 2005-2015, will also pay a visit, he added.

The line-up on the Main Stage this year includes Rihanna, the Muse, David Guetta, Manu Chao, Sigur Ros, Noel Gallagher, Jake Bugg, the Last Shadow Puppets and Kaiser Chiefs, said Gerendai.

The World Music stage will present Goran Bregovic with his band, Buika, Varttina, Leningrad, Rachid Taha and Les Hurlements d’Leo. The A38 Stage will offer acts by MO, Naughty Boy, the Movits!, Block Party and the Bullet for My Valentine, he said.

Programmes in the Theatre and Dance Tent will present performances by the Maas theatre from Rotterdam, the National Dance Company of Wales, as well as acts by choreographers Hioraki Umeda from Japan and Cortez-Fontan from Argentina.

The guest star at the Classical and Opera Stage will be Gabriel Prokofiev, the grandson of the famous Russian composer, who lives in London and performs as a classical music DJ, said Gerendai.

Last year, the Sziget Festival attracted visitors from 95 countries, most of them from The Netherlands, Britain, France, Germany and Italy, but the number of guests arriving from Turkey, Israel, Russia and Ukraine has also gone up, he said.

The Sziget Festival held on a Danube Island in Budapest last year attracted a record number of more than 430,000 people. It fetched the European Festival Award for Best Major Festival first in 2011 and 2014.

photo: Sándor Csudai – www.facebook.com/csudaisandor

New names for Sziget Festival revealed

Sziget Festival is a non-stop music and arts festival with hundreds of program offered every day for its 7 days. This time some new names have been added to the line-up such as Afrojack, Die Antwoord, Skunk Anansie, Troyboi and many more. Sziget is held on a lovely green island in the middle of Budapest between 10-17 August. Advance round 1 tickets are available until 5th May.

Sziget aims to represent as many genres and art forms as possible. This is the place where contemporary circus and EDM are neighbors and where the to-do list of visitors is just endless. The list of program venues are expanding continuously as the programs themselves. You can find the map of program venues HERE.

New names

Grammy Award winning Dutch DJ and producer Afrojack, will definitely make a great party at Sziget, as well as the South African rap-rave group of Die Antwoord. The Canadian-born, LA based duo of DVBBS will definitely bring their high-energy presence behind (and on top of) the deck at Sziget. Szitizens can celebrate the anniversary of the birth of Punk; 40th anniversary with Marky Ramone’s Blitzkrieg, while Skunk Anansie will return to Sziget with a great live show. TroyBoi, one of South East London’s most closely guarded secrets has recently emerged from the shadows and is set to take the music industry by storm, now coming to the Island of Freedom. Moreover ZEDD, Russian-German Grammy Award winning musician and DJ is also coming as well as Carnage.

Already announced names in alphabetical order:

Afrojack
Aurora
Bastille
Bloc Party
Boys Noize
Bring Me The Horizon
Bullet For My Valentine
Carnage
CHVRCHES
Crystal Castles
Datsik
David Guetta
Die Antwoord
Dillon Francis
DJ Sliink
DVBBS
Dyro
Excision
FIDLAR
Hardwell
JAIN
Jake Bugg
Jess Glynne
John Newman
K.I.Z.
Kaiser Chiefs
Kodaline
Kovacs
M83
Manu Chao La Ventura
Marky Ramone’s Blitzkrieg
MØ
Molotov
Movits!
Muse
Naughty Boy
Nicky Romero
Noel Gallagher
Oscar and the Wolf
Parkway Drive
Parov Stelar
Rico & Sticks
Rihanna
Róisín Murphy
SIA
Sigur Rós
Skunk Anansie
Sum 41
The Last Shadow Puppets
The Lumineers
The Neighbourhood
Tourist
Travis Scott
TroyBoi
Unkle (live)
Vinai
Wilkinson (live)
Years & Years
Zedd

More names, venues, programs will arrive in the upcoming weeks! Tickets and information: http://szigetfestival.com/

Photo: Sándor Csudai – facebook.com/csudaisandor

Sziget’s World Music Stage program is now revealed

Sziget, the week-long music and arts festival in Budapest, is happy to announce the program of its World Music Stage. This year the venue will start its program on Day 0, 11th August, opening with Buika and following with such names as Goran Bregovic and his Wedding and Funeral Band, Leningrad, Rachid Taha and many more from all over the globe. The Island of Freedom will happen between 10-17 August.

Sziget continuously offers one of the most diverse and progressive music programs, presenting artists from across the globe. This year, music fans can enjoy some first-class music at Sziget’s World Music Stage where concerts will start in the afternoon going till the evening, but the venue will not close afterwards as DJs will bring the beats till sunrise. This year the World Music Stage will already open on Day 0, so 11th August.

The program

Buika combines all manner of styles along with her emotionally charged lyrics and a broken sensuality in her voice. Her numerous awards and honors attest to that. It will be a great start to the program of the venue. A very much awaited act, Leningrad, will definitely spice up the hot August day. The Russian band plays ska with punk, combining their music also with Russian marches, dance and folk songs. Goran Bregovic and his Wedding and Funeral Band will bring superb energies as his music marries sounds of a gypsy brass band with traditional Bulgarian polyphonies. The great atmosphere and dancing is guaranteed. Rachid Taha is an Algerian singer based in France. His music is influenced by many different styles such as rock, electronic, punk and raï. From Hungary, Pannonia Allstars Ska Orchestra, will bring deep rooted traditional ska spiced up with a violin to add some Hungarian flavor to the music, that is fine tuned with reggae riddims and jazzy melodies. Moreover Szitizens can enjoy the ‘power gypsy dance’ of Baro Drom Orkestar, Balkan dances and elektro swing with Django Lassi, traditional Balkan, gypsy, Turkish music merged with swing and jazz by The Džambo Aguševi Orchestra, pop and Afro-American rhythms with Enzo Avitable or the energies of the brass band of Fanfare Ciocarlia or even the Afro-Caribbean and folkloric music of Colombia, with contemporary rhythms and cultural styles such as hip hop, house, techno, breakbeat brought by Systema Solar.

Program of the World Music Stage (in alphabetical order):

Aziza Brahim
Baro Drom Orkestar
Buika
Cimbaliband
Django Lassi
Dudu Tassa & The Kuwaitis
Enzo Avitabile & Bottari & Scorribanda
Fanfare Ciocarlia
Goran Bregovic Wedding and Funeral Band
Hackney Colliery Band
Ilaria Graziano, Francesco Forni
Kultur Shock
La Dame Blanche
La-33
Lajkó Félix feat Óperentzia
Leningrad
Les Hurlements d’Léo
Malasañers
Mau Mau
Pannonia Allstars Ska Orchestra
Psycho Mutants
Rachid Taha
Rupa & The April Fishes
Soviet Suprem
Systema Solar
The Džambo Aguševi Orchestra
Värttinä
Yiddish Twist Orchestra

More names, venues, programs will arrive in the upcoming weeks! Tickets and information: www.szigetfestival.com

Photo: Mozsi Gabor/Rockstar Photographers 

Sziget adds 9 new names to line-up

Press release – Sziget Festival is continuously adding names to their already colorful and exciting line-up. The Island of Freedom was awarded to be the festival with the “Best European Line-up” last year and aims to keep this title. This time Manu Chao La Ventura, Hardwell, Kaiser Chiefs, Fidlar and many more have been added. The festival is held in Budapest between 10-17 August, 2016.

Sziget Festival is again working on a very colorful and exciting line-up, representing all genres. Just recently Rihanna, Sia, Noel Gallagher and many more joined the already prominent program, but there is no stopping this time either. This year’s End Show, on the last day of the week-long festival on 16th August, will be hosted by Hardwell, who will definitely crown the last Main Stage slot of 2016. Manu Chao La Ventura will bring danceable rhythms and a great atmosphere also to the Main Stage. Sziget is also happy to have Kaiser Chiefs, Fidlar, Boys Noize, Dillon Francis, Movits!, Vinai and DJ Sliink.

Already announced acts (in alphabetical order):

Aurora
Bastille
Bloc Party
Boys Noize
Bring Me The Horizon
Bullet For My Valentine
Crystal Castles
CHVRCHES
Datsik
David Guetta
Dillon Francis
Dyro
Excision
FIDLAR
JAIN
Jake Bugg
Jess Glynne
John Newman
Hardwell
Kaiser Chiefs
K.I.Z.
Kodaline
Kovacs
M83
Manu Chao La Ventura
MØ
Molotov
Movits!
Muse
Naughty Boy
Nicky Romero
Noel Gallagher
Oscar and the Wolf
Parkway Drive
Parov Stelar
Rihanna
Rico & Sticks
Róisín Murphy
SIA
Sigur Rós
DJ Sliink
Sum 41
The Last Shadow Puppets
The Lumineers
The Neighbourhood
Tourist
Travis Scott
Unkle (live)
Vinai
Wilkinson (live)
Years & Years

More names, venues, programs will arrive in the upcoming weeks! Tickets and information: www.szigetfestival.com

Photo: [Sándor Csudai], www.facebook.com/csudaisandor

Rihanna is coming to Sziget!

Press release – Sziget is happy to announce Rihanna as the Day 0 headliner of the Island of Freedom. The week-long festival holiday is held between 10-17 August, 2016.

Rihanna is one of the most successful and talented singers of today. The 28-year-old icon is the youngest female artist who has achieved 14 number one singles, won 8 Grammy Awards and 12 Billboard Music Awards. Her very much awaited album ‘Anti’ was released this year and received great reviews already. Rihanna is followed by more than 100 million people and her hits were played 8 billion times on the biggest video player. It is a great pleasure to have her exclusively at Sziget Festival.

The music line-up is shaping up for this year’s Sziget Festival, among the already announced acts we can find Muse, David Guetta, Sia, The Last Shadow Puppets, Noel Gallagher, Bastille and many more! New announcement can be expected shortly as well as more information about the non-musical programs of the island.

The music and arts festival welcomes people from more than 90 countries every year. Those who are interested should hurry up as festival passes are selling quickly and upgrade campsites even quicker (e.g. the VIP Camping is already sold out). Luckily there are still a number accommodation options available here: http://pressemail.szigetfestival.com/i/AZM3Iv4Dz_7JprIiP2Uapul9V1e7aBE7

Already announced acts (in alphabetical order):

Aurora
Bastille
Bloc Party
Bring Me The Horizon
Bullet For My Valentine
Crystal Castles
CHVRCHES
Datsik
David Guetta
Dyro
Excision
JAIN
Jake Bugg
Jess Glynne
John Newman
K.I.Z.
Kodaline
Kovacs
M83
MØ
Molotov
Muse
Naughty Boy
Nicky Romero
Noel Gallagher
Oscar and the Wolf
Parkway Drive
Parov Stelar
Rico & Sticks
Rihanna
Róisín Murphy
SIA
Sigur Rós
Sum 41
The Last Shadow Puppets
The Lumineers
The Neighbourhood
Tourist
Travis Scott
Unkle (live)
Wilkinson (live)
Years & Years

More names, venues, programs will arrive in the upcoming weeks! Tickets and information: http://pressemail.szigetfestival.com/i/281NS7iQgmVt-05EjXgffN-h-uUfmYPs

Photo: https://www.facebook.com/rihanna

Sziget 2016 – 14 new names added

Sziget continues its series of announcements, this time with a total of 14 exciting acts. The Island of Freedom in Budapest announced to host the performances of Sia, Excision, Dyro, Noel Gallagher, Travis Scott and many more. The program is shaping up nicely for the week-long festival holiday, held between 10-17 August, 2016.

In addition to the already announced names (including Muse, David Guetta, The Last Shadow Puppets, Bastille) 14 new names have now been announced for Sziget 2016. The Island of Freedom is proud to present singer-songwriter Sia as well as British music scene icon Noel Gallagher. Jake Bugg will bring his indie folk tunes to Sziget, Molotov will definitely rock the place, while Travis Scott will hit the stage with his hiphop beats. Straight from Canada arrives Crystal Castles with their experimental electronic sounds as well as Excision with some dubstep. The genre mixture of Sziget is further proven by welcoming UNKLE with their live set, French singer-songwriter JAIN, Wilkinson with his live set, Norwegian singer Aurora, top Dutch DJ Dyro, Belgian electropop band Oscar and the Wolf and British electronic artist Tourist.

The music line-up is shaping up for this year’s Sziget Festival, but festival visitors can also expect a huge wave of announcements coming up in the near future connected to the “soul of Sziget”, including hundreds of non-musical programs happening on the island. Sziget is not only a music festival, but a place where the agenda of NGOs or contemporary dance and theatre are as important as any musical event.

The 24/7 festival opens its gates in August awaiting people from more than 90 countries. Those who are interested should hurry up as festival passes are selling quickly and upgrade campsites even quicker (e.g. the VIP Camping is already sold out). Luckily, there are still a number accommodation options available here: http://szigetfestival.com/accommodation

Already announced acts (in alphabetical order):

Aurora
Bastille
Bloc Party
Bring Me The Horizon
Bullet For My Valentine
Crystal Castles
CHVRCHES
Datsik
David Guetta
Dyro
Excision
JAIN
Jake Bugg
Jess Glynne
John Newman
K.I.Z.
Kodaline
Kovacs
M83
MØ
Molotov
Muse
Naughty Boy
Nicky Romero
Noel Gallagher
Oscar and the Wolf
Parkway Drive
Parov Stelar
Rico & Sticks
Róisín Murphy
SIA
Sigur Rós
Sum 41
The Last Shadow Puppets
The Lumineers
The Neighbourhood
Tourist
Travis Scott
Unkle (live)
Wilkinson (live)
Years & Years

More names, venues, programs will arrive in the upcoming weeks! Tickets and information: www.szigetfestival.com

Photo: Sándor Csuhai

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Muse and 13 more added to the Sziget line-up

The program is shaping up for the 7 days celebration of music and arts, also known as Sziget. The proud winner of the best line-up category at the recent European Festival Awards has added 14 new acts to the confirmed list of the 2016 edition, including Muse, The Last Shadow Puppets, David Guetta, The Lumineers and many more. Make sure you don’t miss the Budapest-based event, held between 10-17 August, 2016.

Sziget, the Island of Freedom is always happy to announce the wide range of music and arts performances happening at the 7 days festival. The newly added music acts once again represent the colorful and endless program hosted on the island. Much awaited Muse will definitely please Sziget fanatics, while David Guetta will once again bring an energetic party to the Island of Freedom. The popular superduo of Miles Kane and Alex Turner, The Last Shadow Puppets is very much awaited to Budapest this summer, as well as The Lumineers who will have their new album out in April. The British trio of Years & Years, Irish singer-songwriter Róisín Murphy, Welsh heavy metal band Bullet For My Valentine and the truly fabulous Jess Glynne will also perform among the many programs planned for #sziget2016. In addition, Australian rockers Parkway Drive, Berlin-based hip hop group K.I.Z., alternative rock band The Neighbourhood, Dutch super talent Kovacs, Canadian music producer and DJ, Datsik and Dutch hip hop act Rico & Sticks with their # OPGEZWOLLETOTNU tour will all head to Sziget this year.

All acts confirmed for Sziget so far (in alphabetical order):

BASTILLE
BLOC PARTY
BRING ME THE HORIZON
BULLET FOR MY VALENTINE
CHVRCHES
DATSIK
DAVID GUETTA
JESS GLYNNE
JOHN NEWMAN
K.I.Z
KODALINE
KOVACS
M83
MO
MUSE
NAUGHTY BOY
NICKY ROMERO
PARKWAY DRIVE
PAROV STELAR BAND
RICO & STICKS # OPGEZWOLLETOTNU
ROISIN MURPHY
SIGUR RÓS
SUM 41
THE LAST SHADOW PUPPETS
THE LUMINEERS
THE NEIGHBOURHOOD
YEARS & YEARS

More names, venues, programs will arrive in the upcoming weeks! Tickets and information: www.szigetfestival.com

Sziget Festival – Aftermovies by Szitizens

The Island of Freedom is a place where it is great to get lost! So many programs, venues and adventures are present that everyone takes home a completely different experience! Here we have collected the stories of Szitizens, so take a sneak peak of their 7 days and see what Sziget is all about! See you there again?

Aftermovie by vincent caudron

Aftermovie by Lisannen11

More videos HERE.

Photo: Sándor Csudai

Sziget, VOLT win two European Festival Awards

Budapest, January 14 (MTI) – Hungary’s Sziget and VOLT music festivals have won two of the European Festival Awards for 2015.

Sziget, the week-long festival held on a Danube Island in Budapest, has won an award for Best Festival Line-Up and VOLT, a major music event hosted by Sopron, in north-western Hungary, won the prize for Best Medium-Sized Festival, the press chief for Sziget told MTI on Thursday.

The awards were presented at a formal gala in Groningen in The Netherlands on Wednesday evening, Viktoria Veto said in a statement.

Sziget fetched the European Festival Award for Best Major Festival first in 2011 and again in 2014, the statement said.

The Sziget festival last August attracted a record number of over 430,000 people. Its line-up included on the main stage Robbie Williams, Ellie Goulding, Avicii, Kasabian, Limp Bizkit, Foals, Marina and the Diamonds, Gogol Bordello, Maccabees and Martin Garrix, among others. The focus on the world music stage were Gypsy music and Roma culture from India. The festival also offered several productions at its classical music stage.

The Volt Festival in mid-summer drew a record crowd of 123,000 people in 2015. It offered 200 acts featuring Motorhead, the Parov Stelar Band, David Guetta, Wellhello, Akos, John Newman and Fatboy Slim, among others.

The European Festival Awards were initiated in 2010 by the European festival association Yourope and the festival website Virtual Festivals Europe and are presented each year.

Photo: szigetfestival.com

Sziget 2016 – The first eight names are now added to the line-up

Sziget Festival invites music and art lovers, open-minded people from all over the world for the 24th time to Budapest next year. More than 25% of the available Sziget 2016 passes have already been sold. The first eight names are already added to the line-up of the festival, and many more will come later. Sziget is held between 10-17 August. Early bird tickets are available till 31st December.

The success of last year’s Best European Major Festival seems to continue, as more than 25% of the 2016 Sziget passes have been sold during the first 24 hours of the ticket sales campaign. In 2015 a total of 441.000 “Szitizens” attended the event, representing more than 95 countries and this probably makes Sziget one of the most multicultural festivals in the world. The series of announcements about the festival has also started. Hundreds of acts and programs will be announced in the forthcoming months, now starting with eight names, representing different genres and keeping the music line-up as colorful as always.

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First names announced (in alphabetical order):
Bring Me The Horizon
John Newman
Kodaline
M83
MO
Naughty Boy
Parov Stelar
Sigúr Ros

Vote for Sziget @ European Festival Awards

The annual voting season of the European festivals is now ON! You can vote for the Island of Freedom in 2 categories: Best Major Festival and Best European Line-Up. Sziget is reigning the Best Major Festival Award for last year, so vote for it to make it the best of the bests this year as well!

Sziget is not just a festival of the summer, but a lifetime experience that everyone has to live through! We are happy that so many of you had fun and enjoyed the Island of Freedom! Now you can also testify this by voting for Sziget in 2 categories at the European Festival Awards until 12th November at the Festival Awards site! All festivals organized by Sziget Cultural Management are in the race at the European Festival Awards, so besides Sziget Festival you can also leave your votes for MasterCard Balaton Sound and VOLT Festival in the Best Medium-Sized European Festival category. Spread the Sziget love and vote now!
VOTE HERE!
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According to szeretlekmagyarorszag.hu, Sziget, VOLT, Balaton Sound and B.my.Lake have also been included in the nominees of the European Festival Awards.  You can vote for them until November 12.

In addition to the big festival category, Sziget is also in the best European Line-Up group on the list compiled by professional jury. The category winners will be announced at the FestAwards gala in Groningen on January 14th, 2016.

35 countries’ 100 festivals entered for the biggest international festival recognition, the European Festival Awards this year. About forty festivals are included in the big festival category assessing European festivals, where Sziget was the best in 2011 and 2014.

9 festivals are competing in the Best European Line-Up category: in addition to Sziget, for example the Danish Roskilde, the Belgian Rock Werchter and the Spanish Primavera, szeretlekmagyarorszag.hu wrote.

Among the festivals of Sziget Kft., VOLT and Balaton Sound are in the Best Medium-Sized Festival, and B.my.Lake is in the Best Small Festival category. You can vote by clicking on this link.

Since 2011, a Sziget-background festival has won every year. Besides the two victories of Sziget, Balaton Sound won the Best Medium-Sized Festival in 2012, and B.my.Lake, which debuted in 2013, immediately won among the best new festivals in 2013.

based on the article of szeretlekmagyarorszag.hu
translated by BA

Photo: MTI