Fusion Festival
| Fusion Festival Фузион | |
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Hip Hop, Reggae | |
| Dates | last weekend of June or first weekend of July |
| Location(s) | Lärz, Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, Germany |
| Years active | 1997–present |
| Website | fusion-festival.de |
The Fusion Festival is a music and arts festival with a countercultural character. It takes place at a former military airport called Müritz Airpark in Lärz, Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, in northeastern Germany. The festival name is often depicted in Cyrillic letters as Фузион, but pronounced like the English word fusion ['fjuʒən]. The annual festival was started by the Kulturkosmos organisation in 1997 and is described by the organizers as a place to practice "Holiday Communism" (Ferienkommunismus).[1] It lasts four to six days, usually at the end of June. In 2016, the Fusion Festival event took place from 29 June to 3 July and which has attracted some 70,000 attendees for each year's festival, since the 2013 event, which the comparable American Burning Man event only matched in 2015.[2]
Different musical styles are represented at the festival, but the line up is not released beforehand. Mostly electronic music is present, but there is no stylistic restriction for the various live music acts, and the festival attendees may bring their own instruments. The festival also holds its own film festival and features different scales of art installations. Attendees may bring their own art and appear in artistic costumes. Only vegetarian food is sold at the festival grounds.
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Concept
The Fusion Festival combines all styles of the underground electronic music scene and various other styles, sometimes depending on the attendees who choose to play their own music.
Festival site
Fusion Festival began in 1997 near the city of Lärz[6] in north-eastern Germany, about 160 km (100 mi) from Berlin and 230 km (140 mi) from Hamburg.[7]
The location is on the original grass-covered grounds of the disused Erprobungsstelle Rechlin Third Reich-era central military experimental airfield (at 53°20′48.11″N 12°44′23.25″E / 53.3466972°N 12.7397917°E for the 234-hectare (580-acre) area central field) about 4.5 km (2.8 mi) due north of the modern
See also
References
- ^ "Fusion Festival, Official Website: Festival".
- ^ Meadow, Matthew (14 September 2015). "Arrests at Burning Man 2015 up 600% from previous year". youredm.com. YourEDM. Retrieved 7 August 2016.
The event has come under scrutiny in recent years for its "radical self-reliance" principle, considering the sheer number of participants at the event is growing every year, and was expected to have reached nearly 70,000 this year.
- ^ a b "Fusion Festival". fest300 Review of Fusion Festival. Archived from the original on 2 April 2016. Retrieved 28 September 2014.
- ^ "Review: "10 Great German Dance Festivals in 2014" on 'Berlin Enjoy' Archived 25 June 2014 at the Wayback Machine"
- ^ "Historical backgrounds and intentions of the Kulturskosmos organisation". Archived from the original on 23 September 2014. Retrieved 29 September 2014.
- ^ "Information on Kulturkosmos site Archived 2014-06-17 at the Wayback Machine"
- ^ "Review of Fusion Festival on "Resident Advisor""
- ^ "Müritz Airpark: Geschichte". www.mueritz-airpark.de.
External links
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