Roskilde Festival is held south of Roskilde in Denmark and is one of the five biggest annual rock music festivals in Europe (the other four being the Sziget Festival, the Glastonbury Festival, the Paleo Festival and Rock Werchter). It was created in 1971 by two high school students, Mogens Sandfær and Jesper Switzer Møller, and promoter Carl Fischer. In 1972, the festival was taken over by the Roskilde Foundation, which has since run the festival...
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Roskilde Festival is held south of Roskilde in Denmark and is one of the five biggest annual rock music festivals in Europe (the other four being the Sziget Festival, the Glastonbury Festival, the Paleo Festival and Rock Werchter). It was created in 1971 by two high school students, Mogens Sandfær and Jesper Switzer Møller, and promoter Carl Fischer. In 1972, the festival was taken over by the Roskilde Foundation, which has since run the festival as a non-profit organisation for development and support of music, culture and humanism.
It is Denmark's first real music-oriented festival, originally for hippies but today it covers more of the mainstream youth from Scandinavia and the rest of Europe. Roskilde Festival 2007 had more than 180 performing bands and gathered around 80,000 people paying for the concerts, with more than 21,000 volunteers, 5,000 media people and 3,000 artists — which means almost 110,000 people participated in the festival.
Traditionally the campsite opens the...
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