Festival de Vilar de Mouros
The Festival de Vilar de Mouros is the name of a Portuguese music festival in Vilar de Mouros .
history
It was held for the first time on August 8, 1971, organized by the doctor António Barge, who wanted to use the festival, which has been a traditional music and folklore event since 1965, as a stage for pop and rock bands. Elton John and Manfred Mann were the international guests, alongside the Portuguese interpreters Pop Five Music Incorporated , Psico , Quarteto 1111 , Sindicato , Celos , Objectivo and Pentágono . Despite some organizational problems in remote Minho Province , the event was a success with 30,000 visitors. It was the first major pop music festival in Portugal. Compared to the prevailing conditions, especially at major events under the authoritarian Estado Novo regime, there was a relaxed atmosphere and relative freedom. The festival is therefore sometimes called Portugal's Woodstock Festival .
The festival grew in the following years, with names like U2 , Alanis Morissette , The Stone Roses , UB40 or Rammstein performing some of the most famous pop / rock musicians of their time and attracting more and more people. Also alternative rock -Bands as Sonic Youth , Beck or Manu Chao made the festival under Indie -Musikfreunden known, while groups such as Iron Maiden and Sepultura friends attracted harder sounds.
After a large number of other music festivals arose in Portugal that were more central, had more financially strong sponsors and were able to offer ever more attractive and bigger names, the number of visitors in Vilar de Mouros fell again. The festival was last held in 2006. Performed were Iggy Pop & The Stooges , Sepultura , Mojave 3 , Tricky , The Durutti Column , Soulfly , Cradle of Filth , Moonspell and Xutos & Pontapés , among others. a.
A replacement festival was only held here in 2011, a festival called Energie Music Vilar de Mouros , planned for 20,000 people, for mainly electronic music, which attracted around 10,000 visitors, with names such as Buraka Som Sistema , WhoMadeWho , Richie Campbell and others. a. The persisting also officially desire to refocus a festival original design failed in 2012 to financial and organizational problems of the license inhabenden organizer that the Italian organizers Sixty companies belonging energy Portugal .
literature
- Fernando Zamith: Vilar de Mouros - 35 Anos de Festivais. Edições Afrontamento, Porto 2003 ISBN 978-972-360-617-1
Individual evidence
- ↑ www.rtp.pt , accessed October 7, 2012
- ↑ www.hangover80.wordpress.com , accessed October 7, 2012
- ↑ www.luso.eu ( page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , accessed October 7, 2012
- ↑ www.sol.sapo.pt , accessed on October 7, 2012
- ↑ www.tvi24.iol.pt , accessed on October 7, 2012
