U2 at Live Aid

A rock festival, or rock fest, is a large-scale outdoor rock music concert, featuring multiple acts, often spread out over several days. The first rock festivals were put on in the late 1960s and were important socio-cultural milestones. In the 1980s a minor resurgence of festivals occurred with charity as the goal. This is a screenshot of a copyrighted website, video game graphic, computer program graphic, television broadcast, or film. ... This is a screenshot of a copyrighted website, video game graphic, computer program graphic, television broadcast, or film. ... U2 (L to R): The Edge, Bono, Adam Clayton, Larry Mullen U2 are an Irish rock band featuring Bono (Paul David Hewson) on vocals and guitar, The Edge (David Howell Evans) on guitar and pianos, vocals, and bass, Adam Clayton on bass and guitar, and Larry Mullen Jr on drums. ... Rock and roll (also spelled Rock n Roll, especially in its first decade), also called rock, is a form of popular music, usually featuring vocals (often with vocal harmony), electric guitars and a strong back beat; other instruments, such as the saxophone, are common in some styles. ... A concert is a live performance, especially musical, for the benefit of an audience. ... The 1960s, or The Sixties, in its most obvious sense refers to the decade between 1960 and 1969, but the expression has taken on a wider meaning over the past twenty years. ... // Events and trends The 1980s marked an abrupt shift towards more conservative lifestyles after the momentous cultural revolutions which took place in the 60s and 70s and the definition of the AIDS virus in 1981. ...

Today, many rock festivals are annual events sponsored by major corporations. Besides rock, many feature multiple genres of music such as pop, dance, and electronic. Some owners of radio stations produce radio festivals that only include bands of a specific style of rock (according to what the station wants to promote). This article mainly describes pop as used in its more recent sense, as a subgenre of popular music. ... Dance music is music composed, played, or both, specifically to accompany social dancing. ... Electronic music is a loose term for music created using electronic equipment. ... Radio Festivals are music shows featuring live bands that are created and promoted solely by commercial radio stations or media conglomerates. ...

See also music festivals. A music festival is a festival that presents a number of musical performances usually tied together through a theme or genre. ...

Historic festivals

The following is a sample of one-time rock festivals of historical significance.

• Monterey Pop Festival (1967)
• Woodstock (1969),Woodstock 1994, and Woodstock 1999
• Altamont Speedway concert (1969)
• Erie Canal Soda Pop Festival (1972)
• California Jam (1974)
• Live Aid (1985)
• US Festival (1983 & 1984)
• Molson Canadian Rocks for Toronto (2003)
• Live 8 (2005)

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Travelling festivals

Muse peforming at Curiosa, Toronto, August 2004

A recent innovation is the travelling rock festival where many musical acts perform at multiple locations during a tour. Successful festivals are often held in subsequent years. Download high resolution version (2048x1536, 728 KB)personally taken photo File links The following pages link to this file: Rock festival Categories: GFDL images ... Download high resolution version (2048x1536, 728 KB)personally taken photo File links The following pages link to this file: Rock festival Categories: GFDL images ... The Trio from left to right- Dominic Howard-drummer,Matthew Bellamy-vocalist, guitarist and keyboardist and Chris Wolstenholme-bassist Muse is a British rock band formed in Teignmouth, Devon in 1994. ...

• Anger Management Tour
• Area Festival
• Curiosa
• Family Values Tour
• Gigantour
• Lilith Fair
• Lollapalooza
• Ozzfest
• Sounds Of The Underground
• Summer Sanitarium
• Warped Tour

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Current festivals

The following is a list of some (not necessarily the most important) rock festivals that take place on a regular basis. Most are held at the same location on an annual basis. Some, like Farm Aid are held at different venues with each incarnation. For a full list of festivals, see List of music festivals. Farm Aid started as a concert on September 22, 1985 in Champaign, Illinois, held to raise money for family farmers in the United States. ... A music festival is a festival that presents a number of musical performances usually tied together through a theme or genre. ...

North America

• All Tomorrow's Parties (California)
• Bonnaroo Music Festival (Manchester, Tennessee)
• Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival (Indio, California)
• Edgefest (Canada)
• HFStival (Washington D.C.)
• Farm Aid (USA)

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• Rock in Rio, (Rio de Janeiro, Brazil)

V Festival 2004

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• All Tomorrow's Parties (Camber Sands, East Sussex, England)
• Glastonbury Festival (Pilton, Somerset, England)
• Isle of Wight Festival (Isle of Wight, England)
• Reading and Leeds Festivals (Reading, Berkshire and Leeds, England)
• T in the Park (Kinross Scotland)
• V Festival (Chelmsford and Staffordshire, England)
• Greenbelt Festival England

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• Aerodrome, (Wiener Neustadt, Austria)
• Nova Rock, (Nickelsdorf, Austria)
• Montreux Jazz Festival, (Montreux, Switzerland)
• Oxegen Festival (Kildare, Ireland)
• Pinkpop Festival, (Landgraaf, Netherlands)
• Rock Werchter, (Werchter, Belgium)
• Roskilde Festival, (Roskilde, Denmark)

Australasia The Aerodrome Festival, also just Aerodrome, is a music festival that takes place near Wiener Neustadt, Austria. ... Wiener Neustadt is located south of Vienna in the state of Lower Austria. ... The Nova Rock Festival, also just Nova Rock, is a music festival that will take place for the first time this year, from Thursday, the 9th, till Sunday, the 10th of June. ... Poster designed by Keith Haring The Montreux Jazz Festival is the best-known music festival in Switzerland. ... Location within Switzerland Montreux is a resort town in the Canton of Vaud, Switzerland, on Lake Geneva with a population of 22,897. ... You might have meant oxygen, the colourless gas. ... Kildare (Irish: Cill Dara) is a town in County Kildare, Republic of Ireland. ... Pinkpop Festival or Pinkpop in short, is an annual rock festival held at Landgraaf, Netherlands. ... Landgraaf is a municipality in the southeastern Netherlands. ... Green Day performing at Rock Werchter in 2005 Rock Werchter is a music festival in the village of Werchter in Belgium. ... The Orange stage in daytime during the 2003 festival. ... Roskilde (population 52,572) is an ancient city in Denmark, situated in the island of Zealand, 30 km west of Copenhagen. ...

• Big Day Out, (Australia and New Zealand)

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• Fuji Rock Festival, (Naeba, Japan)
• Alternative Rock Festivals in Japan

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• Terrastock (historically North America or Britain)

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External links

• BBC: "How festivals captured the summer" June 20, 2005