The Roskilde Festival is a Danish music festival held annually south of Roskilde. It is one of the largest music festivals in Europe and the largest in the Nordic countries. It was created in 1971 by two high school students and a promoter. In 1972, the festival was taken over by the Roskilde Foundation, which has since run the festival as a non-profit organization for development and support of music, culture and humanism. In 2014, the Roskilde Foundation provided festival participants with the opportunity to nominate and vote upon which organizations should receive funds raised by the festival.
Roskilde Festival
The Orange Stage used by Rolling Stones at Knebworth Fair in 1976, before it was acquired by Roskilde Festival. It has later been significantly upgraded
Crowds during the 1995 festival, the first year with more than 100,000 guests
Bruce Springsteen performing on the Orange Stage in 2012
A music festival is a community event with performances of singing and instrument playing that is often presented with a theme such as musical genre, nationality, locality of musicians, or holiday. Music festivals are generally organized by individuals or organizations within networks of music production, typically music scenes, the music industries, or institutions of music education.
Musikfest, an eleven-day outdoor music festival held annually each August in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, is the largest free music festival in the United States, drawing over 1.3 million attendees.
Music festival in Nickelsdorf, Austria, picturing both the main stage and the camping grounds on the farm behind
Leigo Järvemuusika in 2007
Glastonbury Festival in 2005
