It’s that time of the year again where the vote goes out to fans on what was their favourite festivals and artists were over the last year. This year – the 6th edition – saw a new record set with over 1.2 million votes which is an astonishing 100% increase on last year’s numbers. The 14th of January 2015 on the opening night of Eurosonic Noorderslag in Groningen The Netherlands we will see all the winners announced!
Music festivals in more than 35 different European countries are competing for public-voted accolades including the Best Major, Medium, Small, New and Indoor Festivals as well as the Line-Up Of The Year. The titles for artists include Headliner Of The Year, Best Newcomer and Anthem Of The Year.
About Festival Awards Europe:
Established in 2009, in co-operation between Festival Awards Ltd, Yourope (the European Festival Association) and Eurosonic Noorderslag, Festival Awards Europe is the only event solely dedicated to recognising the contributions and achievements of the event organisers and performing artists that generate billions of Euros for local economies and brighten up the summer for tens of millions of festival-goers each year. Decided by a combination of public vote and industry juries, the awards are presented at a sold out ceremony taking place at Groningen’s De Oosterport in The Netherlands.
Steve Jenner, Co-Founder & Director comments: “With more festivals from more countries participating in these awards than previously, we were expecting an increase in fan engagement but not to this extent – we are blown away by the response! As well as being a positive indicator of confidence returning to the market, this shows that festivals are becoming more skilled in communicating with their customers, strengthening audience loyalty and leveraging it. It should make for a great party in Groningen this year.”
We have highlighted our vote!
Best Major European Festival in association with PlugGo
Colours of Ostrava (Czech Republic)
Electric Picnic (Ireland)
EXIT Festival (Serbia)
Hurricane & Southside (Germany)
NOS Alive (former Optimus Alive) (Portugal)
Rock am Ring/ Rock Im Park (Germany)
Rock Werchter (Belgium)
Roskilde Festival (Denmark)
Sziget Festival (Hungary)
Tomorrowland (Belgium)
Wacken Open Air (Germany)
Woodstock Festival (Poland)
Last Year’s Winner: EXIT (Serbia)
Best Medium-Sized European Festival
Audioriver (Poland)
Berlin Festival (Germany)
Best Kept Secret (The Netherlands)
Electric Castle Festival (Romania)
Hideout Festival (Croatia)
Lovefest (Serbia)
MasterCard Balaton Sound (Hungary)
OFF Festival Katowice (Poland)
Pohoda Festival (Slovakia)
Sea Dance Festival (Montenegro)
Volt Festival (Hungary)
Way Out West (Sweden)
Last Year’s Winner: Melt! Festival (DE)
Best Small European Festival
B.my.Lake (Hungary)
Feest in het Park (Belgium)
Festival Tauron Nowa Muzyka (Poland)
Grape Festival (Slovakia)
Happiness Festival (Germany)
Indiependence (Ireland)
Into The Great Wide Open (The Netherlands)
Jazz in the Park (Romania)
PLAI (Romania)
The Garden Festival (Croatia)
Last Year’s Winner: Fusion Festival (Romania)
Best New European Festival
Bergfestival (Austria)
Down The Rabbit Hole (The Netherlands)
Festival The Brave (The Netherlands)
Imaginarium Festival (France)
MS Artville (Germany)
Sea Dance Festival (Montenegro)
Serbia Wonderland Festival (Serbia)
Signal Festival (Czech republic)
Sunscape Festival (Malta)
Your’in (Belgium)
Last Year’s Winner: B.my.Lake (Hungary)
Best Indoor Festival
Blues in Hell (Norway)
I Love Techno (Belgium)
I Love Techno (France)
Metal Hammer Paradise (Germany)
Reeperbahn Festival (Germany)
Rolling Stone Weekender (Germany)
Sensation (The Netherlands)
Sonar (Spain)
TiMAF (Romania)
Waves (Austria & Slovakia)
Last Year’s Winner: Metal Hammer Paradise (Germany)
Newcomer Of The Year in association with Eurosonic Noorderslag
Birth of Joy
George Ezra
Hozier
Jungle
London Grammar
Mighty Oaks
Milky Chance
Mo
Royal Blood
Stromae
Last Year’s Winner: Imagine Dragons (USA)
Best Headliner
Arcade Fire
Arctic Monkeys
Imagine Dragons
Jack White
Macklemore & Ryan Lewis
Outkast
Pearl Jam
QOTSA
Stromae
The Black Keys
Festival Anthem of the Year
Arctic Monkeys – ‘R U Mine’
Atomic Bomb! – ‘The Atomic Bomb! Band and Special Guests’
Black Keys – ‘Lonely Boy’
Calvin Harris – ‘Summer’
Ellie Goulding – ‘Burn’
George Ezra – ‘Budapest’
Outkast – ‘Hey Ya’
Pharell Williams- ‘Happy’
Royal Blood – ‘Come on Over’
Stromae – ‘Papaoutai’
Last Year’s Winner: Daft Punk – Get Lucky (France)
Best European Festival Line-Up
Best Kept Secret (The Netherlands)
Glastonbury (United Kingdom)
Open’er Festival (Poland)
Hurricane/Southside (Germany)
Oya Festival (Norway)
Pinkpop (The Netherlands)
Primavera (Spain) Rock am Ring / Rock im Park (Germany)
Rock Werchter (Belgium)
Sziget (Hungary)
SO TOUGH!
Last Year’s Winner: Berlin Festival (Germany)
Promoter Of The Year
FKP Scorpio (Germany)
Friendly Fire (The Netherlands)
Live Nation (Belgium)
Metropolis (United Kingdom)
ID&T (Belgium)
Last Year’s Winner: FKP Scorpio (Germany)
The Green Operations Award (Previously the Yourope Green ‘N’ Clean Award
Boom (Portugal)
Cabaret Vert (France)
Cambridge Folk Festival (United Kingdom)
Fusion (Germany)
Ilosaarirock (Finland)
Isle Of Wight (United Kingdom)
Maifeld Derby (Germany)
Melt! (Germany)
Mysteryland (The Netherlands)
Northside (Denmark)
Øya Festival (Norway)
Rock Am Ring (Germany)
Roskilde (Denmark)
Shambala (United Kingdom)
We Love Green (France)
Welcome to the Future (The Netherlands)
Last Year’s Winner: Way Out West (Sweden)
YES Group H&S Innovation Award In association with the YES Group and ICM&SS
Last Year’s Winner: Paleo (Switzerland)
Award For Excellence And Passion
Launched in 2014, this award is dedicated to an individual whose exceptional passion and dedication has created a truly unique and magical entity in the marketplace much bigger than the sum of acts that perform there.
Last Year’s Winner: N/A
Lifetime Achievement Award
In association with Yourope Dedicated to an individual whose personal vision and energy has propelled the entire festival marketplace forward in a dynamic, creative and positive way.
Last Year’s Winner: Marek Lieberberg (Germany)
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