Cosquin skirt
Cosquin Rock is an Argentine rock festival series in the province of Cordoba . Originally held in the city of Cosquín , it has been held since 2011 at the Santa María de Punilla airfield south of Cosquín.
The festival, which started in 2001, is one of the most important in Argentina and was for a time the one with the highest attendance figures (between 60,000 and 120,000), until it was overtaken in 2005 by the Quilmes Rock and Pepsi Music festivals in Buenos Aires ; However, both festivals also have a significantly longer duration and are to be viewed more as concert series than Cosquin Rock, which is organized on the model of open-air festivals such as Woodstock .
Organization and concept
The festival is organized by Nueva Tribu , a production group from Cordoba. The appointment is around the turn of the month between January and February, at the height of the tourist season in the tourist centers of the Sierras de Córdoba mountain range .
The musical focus is on the variants of rock music (mainly blues rock , heavy metal and punk rock ), but reggae bands and a few representatives of pop also come into play.
In addition to the superstars of the Argentine rock scene, the winners of an extensive nationwide band competition called Pre Cosquín appear at the festival. This competition is divided into numerous zones to give bands from smaller towns the chance to perform. The finalists in each zone compete against each other in a second round at the provincial level to determine the actual winners.
The venue has changed twice so far. The concerts originally took place in the Plaza Próspero Molina in Cosquín , which is also the main venue for the Cosquín Folklore Festival. In 2005 the festival was moved to a field in San Roque , a village between Cosquín and La Calera . After problems with the residents of the village, it was relocated to Santa María de Punilla in 2011.
development
2001 to 2004
The first Cosquín Rock was held in February 2001. According to the organizers, it was intended to revive the tradition of the La Falda Rock festival , which was the only significant rock festival in Argentina in the 1970s at the time of the military dictatorship ( process of national reorganization ), as there were rock events in numerous provinces (including Buenos Aires) at that time were completely forbidden.
The location of the event from 2001 to 2004 was the Plaza Próspero Molina , where the Cosquín Folklore Festival also takes place.
The festival lasted four days (Thursday to Sunday) and was held on a single stage. With the exception of a few bands from neighboring Chile and Uruguay , the festival was limited to Argentinian artists, including numerous local superstars such as Charly García , Las Pelotas , León Gieco and Bersuit Vergarabat . Despite the economic crisis, all editions of the festival - even those in early 2002 - were well attended.
2005 and 2006
Since the audience numbers rose sharply, especially from 2003 in the context of the general recovery of Argentina from the economic crisis , there were increasing capacity problems due to the limited size of the plaza. The organizers decided to buy a field near the small holiday colony of San Roque , around 25 km from Córdoba, in order to have more room for the audience and a more attractive atmosphere. Another reason for the relocation was that a competing group of organizers had also signed a contract with the city of Cosquín for a rock festival on the same site called Siempre Rock . Despite the change of location, the name of the festival was not changed for marketing reasons.
Cosquin Rock first took place on this new site in 2005. For the first time, there were three stages - one for local bands, a themed stage on which punk rock , reggae , blues rock and hard rock were played depending on the day - and an after- hour festival tent. The festival also lasted a day longer, as an exclusive concert for ticket holders for all four days was held on the Wednesday before the actual start. The hardcore band Sepultura and Marky Ramone performed as international guests .
The competitor festival Siempre Rock, which was held a week later, also had considerable audience figures, but was not continued after only one edition.
In 2006 the festival took place with the same concept, but there was an additional tent with electronic dance music and electro-pop , in which the first electro rock event of the year - another festival series by the same group of organizers - was held. In the opinion of many, the concept did not work, and the audience figures for the additional festival fell short of expectations.
2007-2010
In the course of 2006, the producer group Nueva Tribu came under fire at times for organizing several performances by the band Callejeros . This band had become famous after a fire broke out during a performance in the República Cromañón discotheque at the end of 2004, claiming more than 190 deaths and as a result the band that was involved in organizing this concert had to take harsh criticism. Parts of the public opinion described them as complicit in this accident and called for a ban on appearances.
After Nueva Tribu had organized the concerts for Callejeros, some very well-known rock bands, especially Divididos , who otherwise always appeared as regulars on Cosquín Rock, opposed Nueva Tribu and refused to participate in other festivals of this organizing group. At times it was unclear whether the festival could even take place under these conditions.
Ultimately, Nueva Tribu decided on a less extensive version of Cosquín Rock, which lasted only three days (Friday to Sunday) and was missing numerous well-known bands.
Despite these restrictions, the festival was financially a great success with more than 60,000 guests given its short duration. It was continued with a similar concept until 2010.
As of 2011
In 2011 and 2012, the festival in Santa María de Punilla took place at the local airfield. Since the new venue is larger than the previous one, it became possible to host art exhibitions, a cinema and, as a sub-event, an edition of the Bizarren Party series of events, popular in Cordoba, on the festival site . The duration of three days was retained.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Cosquín Rock se queda en Santa María , La Voz del Interior, May 26, 2011
- ↑ Clarin, November 30, 2006