2019 music festivals
Sziget Festival, Budapest, Hungary
Sighet Festival has been delighting music lovers for 25 years and managed to win hearts with its powerful online ups. At various times, David Bowie, Iggy Pop, Lily Allen, Kool and the Gang, Boney M, The Prodigy, Snow Patrol, Placebo, Offspring and others performed here. To accommodate a huge number of performers, the organizers hold a festival for a week. You can live in tents brought with you (free of charge if you have a ticket), as well as in paid thematic campsites: Italian camping, eco, family, siesta and others. Prices start at 95 € (≈ 7200 rubles) per person for seven days.
Getting there: The organizers tried: for 9 € (≈ 680 rubles) you can take a shuttle from Liszt Ferenc Airport directly to the festival. For 16 € (≈ 1200 rubles) you can take a round-trip ticket. Schedule can be found here.
Roskilde Festival, Roskilde, Denmark
Line-up (list of announced musicians): 30 artists have already confirmed their participation, including The Cure, Tears for Fears, Robyn and others. Another 150 performers are expected.
Ticket price: 2100 Danish kroner (≈ 21 000 rubles) plus tax. Given the high cost, they offer to buy a ticket on an installment plan on the site – you have to pay 210 kroons (≈ 2100 rubles) monthly for 10 months or 350 kroons (≈ 3500 rubles) for six.
Every summer, more than one hundred thousand music lovers gather in the Danish city of Roskilde to set up tents for eight days (you can bring along or reserve a place on the site – information about the cost will be known from January 31) and plunge into the world of music. The most famous North European festival provides the audience with a choice of one of eight scenes (the main stage, orange for headliners, the rest for lesser-known performers).
For all the time of its existence (since 1971), such famous musicians and groups as Bob Marley, U2, Metallica, Nirvana, Radiohead and others managed to perform at the festival.
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