New Horizons (music festival)

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Yellow Claw in Capital Park 2018

The New Horizons Festival is a multi-day music festival in the field of electronic dance music on the Nürburgring .

The festival was held for the first time in 2017 and had more than 50,000 visitors. The festival is organized by Alda Events .

Dark District Stage 2018 (Hardstyle)

concept

The site is said to be a fascinating kingdom. There are different “worlds” with individual stages, on each of which a certain style of music is represented, including the main stage, the Capital Park , and the Urban Circus , on which EDM and Big Room can mainly be heard. The Dark District represents Hardstyle , the DJs in Traptown play Trap. In 2017 there was a Garden of Goa ; this was replaced by Factory 49 from 2018 . By 2018, became a trance in Trancetonia played

The visitors are addressed as travelers . Food and drinks are paid for with so-called tokens , a digital currency. A chip card is attached to the festival ribbon, onto which money can be loaded and used to pay.

Zonderling at Factory 49 2018

history

In 2017, the festival was held for the first time in the paddock at the Nürburgring . The headliners included Armin van Buuren , Dimitri Vegas & Like Mike , Martin Solveig and Afrojack . There were also many German artists such as Felix Jaehn , Robin Schulz and ATB in the line-up .

From August 24 to 25, 2018, 68,000 spectators attended the festival. The festival took place again at the Nürburgring, but moved within the ring to the Müllenbachschleife in the second year .

In 2019, the New Horizons took place over three festival days and five camping days. The first 3,333 early bird tickets were sold out a few days after the 2018 festival ended. According to the organizers, 80,000 travelers took part, 15,000 of whom stayed at the campsite.

On the last day of the festival in 2019, the fourth edition of the New Horizons 2020 was confirmed, which should again include three festival days.

As the organizer announced on November 29, 2019 on its website, the New Horizons Festival 2020 will not take place. It should not take place until 2021 with a new concept at a new location.

Visitor numbers and appearances

date Visitors Headliners
August 25, 2017 to
August 26, 2017		 55,000 Afrojack - Alesso 1 - Armin van Buuren - Axwell Λ Ingrosso - Dimitri Vegas & Like Mike - Don Diablo - DVBBS - Felix Jaehn - Disturbed but GeiL - Lost Frequencies - Marshmello 2 - Martin Solveig - Robin Schulz - Showtek - Sunnery James & Ryan Marciano - Tiësto - W&W
August 24, 2018 to
August 25, 2018		 68,000 All colors - Armin van Buuren - Axwell Λ Ingrosso - Dillon Francis - Felix Jaehn - Hardwell - JAUZ b2b Netsky b2b Slushii - KSHMR - Marshmello - Steve Aoki - Timmy Trumpet - Yellow Claw
August 22, 2019 to
August 24, 2019		 80,000 Dimitri Vegas & Like Mike - Don Diablo - Major Lazer - Project One - Timmy Trumpet - Martin Garrix - Vini Vici

1 had to cancel at short notice due to illness
2 was not allowed to hang up for safety reasons (thunderstorms)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Organizer satisfied: 55,000 visitors at the first “New Horizons” Festival In: general-anzeiger-bonn.de , August 27, 2017, accessed on August 30, 2018.
  2. ↑ Patrick Schütz: The New Horizons 2018 is so cool. In: SWR 3. August 24, 2018, accessed on August 26, 2018 .
  3. ↑ New Horizons Festival conquers Nürburgring In: presseportal.de , March 14, 2017, accessed on August 30, 2018.
  4. ↑ ringrocker.com
  5. ↑ Friends of the Nordschleife - 68,000 visitors - “New Horizons” continues the success story. Retrieved September 15, 2018 (German).
  6. ↑ Ingmar Kreienbrink: New Horizons extended to three festival days - ticket sales start . ( waz.de [accessed September 15, 2018]).
  7. ↑ DJ MAG Germany: New Horizons 2019: 80,000 visitors celebrated in the Kingdom of Fire. Retrieved August 28, 2019 .
  8. ↑ DJ MAG Germany: New Horizons 2019: 80,000 visitors celebrated in the Kingdom of Fire. Retrieved August 28, 2019 .
  9. ↑ Davina Chang: New Horizons Goes on Hiatus in 2020 to Plan Future Expansion. In: EDMTunes. November 29, 2019. Retrieved November 30, 2019 (American English).
  10. ↑ SWR Aktuell, SWR Aktuell: "New Horizons" ended without incident. Retrieved August 28, 2019 .
  11. ↑ Don Diablo is coming to the New Horizons Festival in 2019. In: Festival Dates. January 13, 2019, accessed on January 13, 2019 (German).
  12. ↑ Major Lazer is coming to New Horizons Festival 2019. In: Festival Dates. December 10, 2018, accessed on January 13, 2019 (German).
  13. ↑ a b c line-up. Retrieved January 29, 2019 .