Summer is also enriched every year by music festivals, which attract the young and the young at heart, lovers of music, fun and the scorching sun, to various venues across Europe. Which music festivals should not be missed this year, and where and when we can go to a festival in the coming months, below. Here are the 2016 music festivals not to be missed!
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Ever since they renovated the embankment of the Ljubljanica, called Špica, there are throngs of people there, just like when it was a popular Ljubljana bathing place there. In addition to the renovation of the embankment, credit for this also goes to Špica Caffe, which will soon celebrate its first anniversary. This year's summer will also be colorful on Špica, because there will be concerts, dance events, and educational and children's workshops again. The first gathering of the year with music awaits us already on June 17, 2016, when the Croatian group Otprilike Ovako will fill the room with music in the evening.
Hot producer Gramatik is once again coming to Križanke in Ljubljana, whose unique set varies between dubstep, electro, trip and hip hop. After many sold-out concerts around the world, an interview with CNN, a performance at the Coachella festival in collaboration with the legendary Wu-Tang Raekwon and his remix of Eric Kras' piece Torture in the Narcos series, he returns to his home soil with a musical treat.
The OverJam Raggea festival will once again provide for a relaxed summer vacation this year. In the natural surroundings of the Soča River, not far from the Triglav National Park, between August 15 and 20, 2016, music stages and full tents will come alive under the control of reggae rhythms. The opening party is scheduled for August 15, the festival will take place from August 16 to 19, and an unforgettable afterparty is expected on August 20. Children will also be taken care of, who will be able to participate in various workshops in as many as four languages as part of the Overjam 4 Kidz program. Tickets for the event are now available.
Justin Timberlake recently returned to the music scene after a three-year hiatus. He announced his comeback in style, with the song Can't Stop the Feeling, which many have already declared as the anthem of the summer and the successor to the song Happy, which we rocked to last summer. Before the official music video, Timberlake first impressed with the star version, but now the two got serious competition in the music video, which was shot by the Victoria's Angels for the same song, using the lip sync technique.
Outlook festival 2016 in Pula is one of the largest soundsystem festivals in Europe. Every year it attracts a nice selection of big names of the music scene from all over the world. The four-day festival will take place in an abandoned Roman fort in Štinjan, just a few minutes from Pula. If you want to indulge in the rhythms of dubstep, reggae, hip-hop, house and techno, don't miss the opportunity to relax at the Outlook festival and experience a new dimension of entertainment.
Ka-boom! Do you already have a ticket for NOS Alive 2016 - an outdoor rock, indie and pop festival happening in Lisbon from 7-9 July 2016? The musically diverse set of performers every year includes world-famous musical names, which is also the reason why you should not miss the festival this year.
This year, too, we can expect a five-day delight for fans of electronic music - the Dimensions festival in Pula. Good sound equipment and a rich line-up are complemented by an incredible location, which gives the festival a quality of a new dimension that even the biggest electronic music festivals in the world can hardly compete with. The event will be hosted by the Fort of Punta Christo, which, in the glow of flashing lights and the rhythms of electronic music, will help create an unforgettable experience. The leading musicians of the electronica scene will perform - from Massive Attack to Moodymann.
In five years, the Tolminski Punk Rock Holiday 2016 climbed to the very top of festival events in Europe. This year, too, it will take place at a wonderful location in Tolmin. From the festival site, it will be possible to access the two beaches of the emerald green river and the Triglav National Park. The long-awaited festival will start on August 8 and will last for 5 days. Bands such as Agnostic Front, Flag, Strung Put, Donots, A Wilhelm Scream, The Toaster, Total Chaosm, Nofx and others will perform.
The 8th edition of the craziest techno event in the near and far region is just around the corner. The ECO festival is also on the list of summer festivals in our country this year. ECO festival 2016 will take place on the first weekend in July, more precisely from 1 to 3 July 2016. Do you dare to go a step further and experience the new dimensions offered by ECO festival 2016?
Buuumm! Do you already have a ticket for the spectacle of the year - Ultra Europe 2016, which will surely fill the legendary Poljud Stadium between July 15 and 17, 2016? Ultra Europe is one of the highlights of festival events in Europe. This time you too simply have to surrender to the rhythms of the world's greatest DJs!
Vienna will host the second urban rock festival Rock In Vienna this year. Old rock will mix with new rock trends and bands of older generations will compete with younger bands. Rammstein, Iron Maiden, Mando Diao, Nightwish and the father of punk Iggy Pop will also be among the crowd of rock legends.