10 Awesome Music Festivals around the World

Music Festivals are popping up all over the globe. These vary in size, location and types of music, but they all have one thing in common: they are a great place for music lovers to hang out with each other and enjoy amazing sound. A music festival really is a giant party and revellers come from everywhere to have a blast. The decoration is amazing and makes you feel like you are far away from the world outside! With colossal flagpoles everywhere, streamers, lights, and banners, the effort that goes into music festivals is next to none. Here are ten of the most awesome music festivals on the planet. If these are bit out of your league don’t despair, you can hire some crazy lighting and musical equipment from Modern Party Hire and create your own music festival at home!

Paleo, Switzerland

This festival is mainly run by volunteers and is a low budget festival and yet over 200,000 people flock to attend. It features a massive range of acts, around 200, including up and coming artists and sounds. The festival showcases music and food from a different region each year.

Exit, Serbia

The Exit Festival is all about social change. It began as a statement, a movement to exit out of the madness created by the Serbian regime. This festival attracts over 200,000 people each year and features international acts as well as local ones.

Ultra, Miami

Another massive music festival, Ultra entertains over 300,000 guests. This is an electronic music festival and is so popular that it sells out well ahead of time. The festival was extended by three days so more people could attend, but it sold out anyway.

Sziget, Hungary

Sziget is another festival that blossomed out of political unrest in the 90’s. It attracts almost 400,000 followers and won the UK Festival Award for Best European Festival. This festival has visitors and artists from all over the world and features almost 200 acts. Tomorrowland 2019 is also a really popular festival similar to Sziget.

Rock in Rio, Brazil

This event is huge. It began with a crowd of 1.5 million party goers and regularly attracts around 700,000 attendees. It attracts big name performers and tickets for this amazing festival usually go on sale two years ahead of time.

Przystanek Woodstock, Poland

This festival is a celebration of Woodstock in 1979 and features rock music. More than half a million people turn up to this infamous rock event. The theme for the event is very much like its forerunner, love, friendship and music. The amazing thing about this festival is that entry is free.

Coachella, California

This festival features alternative and indie music and has a hippy feel to it. In 2013, over 600,000 attended, making it a very well-known and well attended world festival despite its fringe beginnings.

Summerfest, Wisconsin

This festival is famous for its size and even featured as the world’s largest festival in the Guinness Book of World Records.

Mawazine, Morocco

This festival had around 2.5 million attendees in 2013 and yet is barely known in America. It features an amazing line-up of artists, particularly African artists.

Donauinselfest, Vienna

This festival is the biggest festival in the world right now. Last year 3.2 million people visited over three days.

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