Posted on: May 13, 2013
There are several summer festivals in the Netherlands for 2013 for every shape, size, duration and content.
FrotaRock
FortaRock is a Dutch-day metal music festival held annually in Park Brakkenstein in Nijmegen since 2009 and is the largest one-day music festival in the Netherlands.
date: 1st of June location: Park Brakkenstein, 6525 PL Nijmegen, Netherlands entrance fee: € 75, -. excluding € 5 service charge per ticket Maps FortaRock XL who will sing: Rammstein, Volbeat, Motorhead, Opeth, Mastodon, Amon Amarth, Kreator, Airbourne, Entombed, Enslaved, Delain and many more more info: You can visit fortarock.nl
Pinkpop
Pinkpop is the oldest pop festival in the Netherlands. The festival will take place in 2013 for the 44th time, a unique record. Since 1990 Pinkpop included in the Great Guinness Book Of Records as the oldest continuously organized pop festival in the Netherlands.
date: 14 – 16 of June location: Megaland event site in Landgraaf entrance fee: € 165 weekend ticket, € 85 one day ticket who will sing: The Killers, The Script, Queens Of The Stone Age, Paramore, Jimmy Eat World, Netsky, Thirty Seconds To Mars, Green Day, Ben Howard, Triggerfinger, The Vaccines & many more... more info: You can visit www.pinkpop.nl
Best Kept Secret
Both big names and new discoveries from indie, folk, hip-hop, rock or electronica will rock on the stage of the Best kept secret.
date: 21 - 23 of June location: In Hilvarenbeek entrance fee: € 99 weekend ticket, € 52,50 one day ticket who will sing: Alt-J, Arctic Monkeys, Thomas Azier, Belle and Sebastian, Portishead, Sigur Rós & many more... more info: You can visit www.bestkeptsecret.nl
Awakenings
One of the biggest one-day dance festival of the Netherlands!
date: 29th of June location: Spaarnwoude, from 11 p.m. to 11 a.m.! entrance fee: Paradiso: € 22.00 Normaal (Including 3,25 euro Paradiso Membership) / Recreatiegebied Spaarnwoude ( deelplan Houtrak ) € 52.50 who will sing: Carl Cox, Fritz Kalkbrenner, Joris Voorn, Gaiser, Kevin Arnemann, Ben Ufo, Dr Rush, Green Velvet & many more... more info: You can visit www.awakenings.nl
Parkpop
Parkpop started in 1981 as a small local initiative and now it is the biggest free one-day festival in Europe, with around 350,000 visitors.
date: 30th of June location: Zuiderpark, in The Hague entrance fee: It’s free! who will sing: Sinead O'Connor, Barry Hey, Flying V Formation, Bob Geldof, Robin Brock and so on. more info: You can visit www.parkpop.nl
Pitch
Pitch focuses on progressive electronic music, often performed by live bands.
date: 5 & 6 of July location: In Cultuurpark Westergasfabriek (Amsterdam) entrance fee: € 63 for a weekend ticket, € 36 for a one day ticket. who will sing: Bonobo, Trentemøller (live), Dizzee Rascal, Django Django, Rustie (live), Jamie Lidell, Fat Freddy’s Drop and more... more info: You can visit www.pitchfestival.nl
North sea jazz
Be prepared for the biggest jazz festival in the Netherlands. That festival is not only about jazz. There is everything, from funk and latin to soul!
date: 13, 14 and 15 July location: At Ahoy in Rotterdam entrance fee: € 189 for a weekend ticket, € 79 for a one day ticket. who will sing: Santana, John Legend, Sting, Dionne Warwick, Charles Bradley, Gary Clark Jr. and more... more info: You can visit www.northseajazz.com
Zwarte Cross
Sports, music and camping are the basic elements for the one of the biggest music festivals in the Netherlands and the largest motorcycle event in Europe.
date: 26, 27 and 28 of July location: At Lichtenvoorde entrance fee: € 100 for a weekend ticket + camping, € 62,50 for a weekend ticket, € 25 for a one day ticket. who will sing: At The Gates, Golden Earring, Guus Meeuwis, Heaven’s Basement, Jaya The Cat, Joost van Bellen and more others. more info: You can visit www.zwartecross.nl
Electronic Family
A tight blue sky, friendly people around you. A beer in your hand, or a wine. A beautifully divided and wonderfully decorated field, no queues in sight. While people share looks on the vivacious melodies of the world's most wanted artists in trance music the sense of unity at Electronic Family comes up again. It's that well known unanimous feeling on the dancefloor or-in this case the grass of the Amsterdam Forest.
date: 20th of July location: Amsterdamse Bos, near Amsterdam entrance fee: € 35 - € 45 who will sing: Aly & Filacosmic Gate, Ferry Corsten, Alexander Popov, Alex Morph, Andrew Rayel and many more more info: You can visit electronicfamily.nl
Solar weekend
Music and other forms of art will meet for a creative crossover. In that festival, each visitor can be an artist!
date: 2, 3 and 4 August location: At De Maasplassen in Roermond entrance fee: € 115 for a holiday ticket (includes camping), € 75 for a weekend ticket, € 49 for a one day ticket. who will sing: Find out here. more info: You can visit solarweekend.nl
Lowlands
Lowlands, the most popular summer festival in the Netherlands, focuses mainly on every kind of music, but it also offers theatre, comedy and even politics.
date: 16 - 18 of August location: In Biddinghuizen entrance fee: € 185 who will sing: Bullet For My Vallentine, Fall Out Boy, Hurts, Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds, Nine Inch Nails, Slayer and more... more info: You can visit lowlands.nl
Valtifest
Experience the colorful festival, At NDSM-werf in Amsterdam. Every edition of Valtifest has a theme, reflected in decor and dress code.
date: 7th of September location: At NDSM-werf in Amsterdam entrance fee: € 55 who will sing: To be announced. more info: You can visit valtifest.nl
Amsterdam Dance Festivals
The Amsterdam Dance Event (ADE) is the world's leading electronic music conference and the biggest club festival for the many electronic sub-genres on the planet. The event offers a full program of daytime conferences, including interactive workshops, mentoring sessions, technical demonstrations and in-depth round-table discussions, alongside a nighttime music festival featuring more than 220 events over five days in 52 venues around the city. Each year, the ADE attracts over 3,000 business professionals and 140,000 festival visitors – including 30,000 tourists - from 62 countries.
date: 16 - 20 of October location: 52 venues around the city entrance fee: not available yet who will sing: 1.700 artists and over 350 events, you can check the website below. more info: You can visit amsterdam-dance-event.nl
