Rock festival
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-->A rock festival, or rock fest, is a large-scale outdoor rock music concert, featuring multiple acts, often spread out over several days. The first rock festivals were put on in the late 1960s and were important socio-cultural milestones. In the 1980s a minor resurgence of festivals occurred with charity as the goal.
Today, many rock festivals are annual events sponsored by major corporations. Besides rock, many feature multiple genres of music such as pop, dance, and electronic. Some owners of radio stations produce radio festivals that only include bands of a specific style of rock (according to what the station wants to promote).
See also music festivals.
Historic festivals
The following is a sample of one-time rock festivals of historical significance.
- Monterey Pop Festival (1967)
- Woodstock festival (1969), Woodstock 1994, and Woodstock 1999
- Altamont Speedway concert (1969)
- Isle of Wight Festival (1970)
- Erie Canal Soda Pop Festival (1972)
- Summer Jam at Watkins Glen (1973)
- California Jam (1974)
- Ozark Music Festival 1974
- Nambassa festival series New Zealand 1976-1981
- US Festival (1983 & 1984)
- Live Aid (1985)
- Molson Canadian Rocks for Toronto (2003)
- Live 8 (2005)
Travelling festivals
A recent innovation is the travelling rock festival where many musical acts perform at multiple locations during a tour. Successful festivals are often held in subsequent years.
- Anger Management Tour
- Area Festival
- Big Day Out
- Curiosa
- Family Values Tour
- Gigantour
- Lilith Fair
- Lollapalooza
- Ozzfest
- Rock Never Stops Tour
- Sounds Of The Underground
- Summer Sanitarium
- Warped Tour
Current festivals
The following is a list of some (not necessarily the most important) rock festivals that take place on a regular basis. Most are held at the same location on an annual basis. Some, like Farm Aid are held at different venues with each incarnation. For a full list of festivals, see List of music festivals.
North America
- All Tomorrow's Parties (California)
- Bonnaroo Music Festival (Manchester, Tennessee)
- Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival (Indio, California)
- Cornerstone Festival Bushnell Illinois
- Edgefest (Canada)
- HFStival (Washington D.C.)
- Farm Aid (USA)
- Moondance Jam (Walker, MN)
- V Festival (North America) (Canada, USA)
- Volunteer Jam, Tennessee
- Rock in Rio, (Rio de Janeiro, Brazil)
- Rock al Parque, (Bogotá, Colombia)
United Kingdom
- All Tomorrow's Parties (Camber Sands, East Sussex, England)
- Glastonbury Festival (Pilton, Somerset, England)
- Download Festival (England)
- Isle of Wight Festival (Isle of Wight, England)
- Reading and Leeds Festivals (Reading, Berkshire and Leeds, Yorkshire, England)
- T in the Park (Kinross Scotland)
- V Festival (Chelmsford and Staffordshire, England)
- Greenbelt Festival (England)
- Aerodrome, (Wiener Neustadt, Austria)
- Eurockéennes (Belfort, France)
- Festival Internacional de Benicàssim (Spain)
- Hultsfred Festival, (Hultsfred, Sweden)
- Independent Days Festival (Bologna, Italy)
- Nova Rock, (Nickelsdorf, Austria)
- Montreux Jazz Festival, (Montreux, Switzerland)
- Oxegen Festival (Kildare, Ireland)
- Pinkpop Festival, (Landgraaf, Netherlands)
- Rock 4 People (Ceský Brod, Czech Republic)
- Rock am Ring (Nürburgring, Germany)
- Rock Werchter, (Werchter, Belgium)
- Roskilde Festival, (Roskilde, Denmark)
- Rock'n Coke, (Istanbul, Turkey)
- Slane Concert (Slane, Ireland)
- Terrastock (historically North America or Britain)
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