Greenville Festival

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Greenville Festival
Thees Uhlmann at the Greenville Festival 2013
Thees Uhlmann at the Greenville Festival 2013
General information
place Mating in the glial
genre Metal , hip-hop , alternative rock
Visitor numbers
2012 10,000
2013 20,000

The Greenville Festival was a music festival in the Märkisches Exhibition and Leisure Center (MAFZ) by couples in Glien in Havelland .

history

The festival took place for the first time in 2012 and was planned to be an annual event. According to official information, a total of 10,000 music fans attended the premiere. The festival took place over three days and had two open-air stages as well as a hall with another stage and a continuous DJ program. In 2013 the number of visitors was estimated at 20,000.

The festival organizer made a loss in the first year, but a ten-year lease was concluded for the site, with an initial profit only expected in one of the following years.

2012

The following bands played at the first Greenville Festival from July 27th to 29th, 2012:

2013

The Greenville Festival 2013 took place from July 26th to 28th with the following bands:

2014

In 2014 the Open Air was planned for the days from July 25th to 27th, but was canceled at the beginning of July by the administration of the site and the artists without giving any reason, even without first informing the public and especially ticket buyers how a Refund of the tickets already purchased should take place. In the media and social networks, there was speculation about various reasons for the cancellation, since with creative talent those responsible for the festival were also involved in the bankruptcy of the Omas Teich Festival in 2013 and, parallel to the 2014 festival, tours by the Backstreet Boys and Snoop Dogg from The same organizers were canceled, which they had planned under different company names, but for the time being no reasons, no public announcements and no refund regulations were published for their cancellation. On September 11, 2014, the organizer creative talent officially announced its bankruptcy.

Web links

Commons : Greenville Festival  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. 10,000 music fans at the first Greenville Festival. Berliner Zeitung , July 28, 2012, accessed on September 12, 2012 .
  2. Markus Schneider: A little less power rock, please. Berliner Zeitung , July 31, 2012, accessed on September 12, 2012 .
  3. ^ Benjamin Jungert: Greenville 2013: So were the three festival days. In: RollingStone.de. July 29, 2013. Retrieved October 25, 2013 .
  4. Organizer satisfied with first Greenville Festival. Die Welt , July 31, 2012, accessed on September 12, 2012 .
  5. The Greenville 2014 is canceled , Märkische Oderzeitung from July 3, 2014 (online)
  6. Greenville Festival 2014 canceled - and the organizers are still silent on the reasons , Rolling Stone from July 4, 2014 (online)
  7. Greenville Festival canceled in pairs Märkische Allgemeine from July 4, 2014 (Online)
  8. Creative Talent: Where are you headed? , festivalisten.de from July 4, 2014
  9. It's official: creative talent is insolvent ( memento of the original from October 6, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , Music market from September 12, 2014 @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.musikmarkt.de