C-O Pop festival 2014 | Cologne, Germany

festival info: c/o pop festival

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Date: Wednesday 20 Augustus - Sunday 24 Augustus, 2014
Genre: Dance, Electronic pop music festival
Location: Cologne, Germany
Visitors: 30.000
Website: www.c-o-pop.de

The C/O pop (Cologne On Pop) is a music festival for electronic pop music, which will is held in Cologne since 2004. The C/O pop is a successor event the displaced to Berlin Popkomm 2003. The Festival sees itself as an industry meeting for electronic music and electronic media. In 2009, more than 30,000 visitors to the Festival, the industry event was attended by about 1,000 visitors.

In addition to the festival a forum for the music industry was offered until 2009 with professional c / o pop ( per c / o pop). The per c / o pop consisted of a trade and consumer fair and a congress for music and media professionals . The first c / o pop Cologne was designed by creative artists in response to the migration of Popkomm in Berlin. 2005 Cologne On Pop took place on 24 to 28 August coincide with the ring hard .

In 2010 the c / o pop festival and the convention happened for the first time from 23 up to 28 June 2010 in Cologne again with up to 30,000 visitors. The simultaneously occurring Trade Fair C ' n' B ( Creative Business Convention ) in the State House on the Rhine Park was visited by 1400 guests. The date of the end of June was chosen so that more international industry representatives can participate, and the appointment outside the Break enabled a better integration of universities in the conference program. It also now admitted that the possibility of cooperation with the media NRW is very important.

The festival provides an insight into the current trends of electronic music and its influence on modern pop culture. The c / o pop presents artists from the Cologne area of compact and A-Musik annually and also a cross-section of the "Sound of Cologne". The wide-ranging program includes numerous musical and art events such as label-parties, exhibitions and VJ Festival and the c / o pop Congress with presentations, panels and discussions on the topic of music and media.
Source: wikipedia.org