Sziget Festival | Kenyan Band Needs Your Votes To Participate In One Of The Largest Music & Cultural Festivals In Europe Alongside Major Lazer, Wiz Khalifa & Many More
1.MAJOR LAZER. (American Electronic music trio composed of record producer Diplo, Jillionaire, and Walshy Fire)
2. Wiz Khalifa (American rapper, songwriter, and actor)
3. Rita Ora ( British singer and actress.)
4. Clean Bandit ( British electronic music group)
The Sziget Festival (Sziget, pronounced [ˈsiɡɛt] (
listen), is the Hungarian for “Island”) is one of the largest music and cultural festivals in Europe. It is held every August in northern Budapest, Hungary, on Óbudai-sziget (“Old Buda Island”), a leafy 108-hectare (266-acre) island on the Danube. More than 1,000 performances take place each year.
The week-long festival has grown from a relatively low-profile student event in 1993 to become one of the prominent European rock festivals, with about half of all visitors coming from outside Hungary, especially from Western Europe.[1] It also has a dedicated “party train” service (with resident DJs) that transports festivalgoers from all over Europe.[2] The second event (1994), labeled Eurowoodstock, was headlined by performers from the original Woodstock festival. By 1997 total attendance surpassed the 250,000 mark, reaching an all-time peak in 2016 with 496,000 visitors from 95 countries (the daily capacity having been raised to 90,000).[3] It is now being increasingly labeled as a European alternative to the Burning Man festival due to its unique features (“an electronically amplified, warped amusement park that has nothing to do with reality”).[4]
In 2011, Sziget was ranked one of the 5 best festivals in Europe by The Independent.[5] The festival is a two time winner at the European Festivals Awards in the category Best Major European Festival in early 2012 and 2015.[6]
