Pohoda-Festival

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Date: Thursday 10 July - Saturday 12 July, 2014
Genre: Dance, Electro, Rock, World
Location: Trencin, Slovakia
Visitors: 80.000
Website: www.pohodafestival.sk

Pohoda festival is an open-air summer music festival in Slovakia, first organized in 1997 in Trenčín. It is one of the biggest Slovak music events organized annually. The current venue is Trenčín Airport. The word "pohoda" means "relax" or "ease" in the Slovak and Czech languages.

The festival features alternative music, rock, pop, dance music, world music, house, techno, drum and bass, hip hop, but also theatre, discussions, chamber music, dance and literature workshops.

The actual record-high attendance is 33,000 people/day from 2009. Since 2010 the festival capacity is limited to 30,000 visitors. he 2009 festival took place on 16th, 17 and 18 July. Percujove, the Spanish percussion orchestra opened the Festival this year. Acts included Basement Jaxx, Patti Smith, Pendulum, The Ting Tings, and High Contrast.

Saturday afternoon concerts of classical music at the main stage have become a tradition. After arias and choruses the Festival have prepared the symbolic fusion of two ensembles this year. Selection of Slavonic Dances (A. Dvořák), Hungarian Dances (J. Brahms) or Strauss’s waltzes were performed by orchestras of the Opera of Slovak National Theatre and Hungarian State Opera.

Travis, the Klaxons and Lamb were scheduled to play, but did not, after the festival was cancelled on Saturday, 18 July after the O2 Aréna tent collapsed due to heavy winds during a thunderstorm. The tent fell on hundreds of people, who took refuge from the rain, and killed two persons and severely injured dozens. Organizers of Pohoda Festival decided, despite the 2009 tragedy, that the festival would take place in 2010.
Source: wikipedia.org