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| • | Roskilde Festival is one of the two biggest annual pop music festivals in Europe (the other being the Glastonbury festival). It was created in 1971 by two high school students, Mogens Sandfær and Jesper Switzer Møller, and promoter Carl Fischer. In 1973, the festival was taken over by the Roskilde Foundation, who has since run the festival as a non-profit organisation for development and support of music, culture, and humanism. The festival is held annually for four days in late June at the Animal Showgrounds (in recent years simply known as the "Festival Site") south of Roskilde, Denmark (a former capital of Denmark). It is Denmark's first real music oriented festival, originally for hippies but today covering more of the mainstream youth from Scandinavia and the rest of Europe. Roskilde Festival 2003 gathered more than 65,000 paying people for the concerts, along with 20,000 workers, most of them volunteers. The stages were until 2003 named after their colour, but as the names had not matched the actual colour of the tents for a period, it was decided to rename all stages except the Orange Stage, the central and main stage. The Orange Stage is open in front of a huge field, whereas the other tents cover the whole audience, the largest of which is the Arena stage (formerly known as Green Stage), the largest tent in Europe with an official capacity of 18.000 people. The music covers such styles as Heavy metal, HipHop, Electronic and Rock, but the festival wants to promote new artists and has setup a special stage for alternative music. It has also become a tradition to let an up and coming Danish band open the Orange Stage on the first day of the festival. There's always a stage for world music, not too big, but strategically located, so that people passing by will stop and learn something new. And there's usually at least one performance of classical music, often a full orchestra playing (parts of) well-known compositions. The 2005 edition featured artists such as Audioslave, Autechre, Black Sabbath, D-A-D, Duran Duran, Foo Fighters, Green Day, Brian Wilson, Fantômas and more than 160 other bands and DJs. Apart from music there is always some theatre and 'lone acts' wandering aro Source: [wikipedia: roskilde festival] |
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| Roskilde Festival | ||
| official site of one of the largest festivals in europe, held in denmark. profits are donated to initiatives for children and young people, and other humanitarian, public utility or cultural work world-wide. | ||
| The Roskilde Festival Ring | ||
| a webring for sites about the event. | ||
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