New Pop Festival

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The Bloodhound Gang at the SWR3 New Pop Festival

The SWR3 New Pop Festival has been taking place annually on a weekend in September in Baden-Baden since 1998 . From 1994 to 1997 the previous broadcaster SWF3 hosted this festival.

With the help of this festival, the radio station introduces new musicians and bands ( newcomers ) from Germany and abroad to a wide audience. In addition, numerous well-known artists and bands also appear in the so-called SWR3 New Pop Special .

The sometimes unusual venues are remarkable. The concerts initially took place in the Baden-Baden theater , SWR-TV-Studio 5, in the old Baden-Baden train station and in a Mercedes-Benz assembly hall in Rastatt , where the tapes stopped just before the concert began . For several years, see the concerts in Theater Baden-Baden, Festspielhaus Baden-Baden and Baden-Baden Kurhaus instead. There is also a public live stage in front of the Kurhaus, on which the festival artists give star talks and unplugged performances during the day, and additional half-hour unplugged concerts take place in the evening.

Award

The festival's most popular band has been awarded the A-ward created by DaimlerChrysler and SWR3 in the past . The main prize for the audience jury was a car ( Mercedes-Benz A-Class ). A ward winners include Anastacia (2000), Soraya and Xavier Naidoo, as well as groups such as The Fugees , Bloodhound Gang and Wonderwall . In 2006, Corinne Bailey Rae received the Audience Award in front of the Scissor Sisters .

Since 2007, SWR3 has been awarding the “SWR3 Pioneer of Pop” award (2007: Joe Cocker , 2008: Udo Lindenberg , 2009: a-ha , 2011: The Scorpions , 2019: Die Fantastischen Vier ) and also “SWR3 Pioneer of Rock "(2013: Die Toten Hosen , 2014: Lenny Kravitz ) or" Newcomer Award "(2010: Lena , 2012: Loreen ).

Contributing artist

SWF3

SWR3

The Baden-Baden Theater during the SWR3 New Pop Festival 2009
The Museum Frieder Burda during the SWR3 New Pop Festival 2010
For the 20th anniversary, the New Pop Festival took place on four instead of three days. On this additional day, which was advertised as a “fantastic fourth day”, there was an anniversary concert by the Fantastischen Vier , who celebrated their 25th stage anniversary this year.
The New Pop Festival 2020 was canceled on May 29, 2020 due to the COVID-19 pandemic .
  • 2021 (September 16-18)

Broadcasts

Festival concerts and highlights are broadcast on SWR3 festival radio and online on SWR3.de. EinsPlus broadcast all concerts live on television until 2016 . From 2017, the ARD digital channel ONE is the new television partner of the SWR3 New Pop Festival and shows the concerts as well as the special and other programs with a time delay. The concerts will still be broadcast live on swr3.de. Nationally, TV stations such as SWR TV , 3sat and Arte are included . The first is broadcast by the SWR3 New Pop Festival - the special broadcast with a delay. This program ran on ZDF until 2010 .

Live streams, videos, photos, blogs, live commentary functions and band postings about the festival can also be found on Facebook, Twitter, Youtube & Co.

Artist poster

The official festival poster has been designed by Pop Art artists since 2003: it was James Rizzi in 2003, Charles Kaufman in 2004, Thitz in 2005 , Moritz Götze in 2006 , Thomas Baumgärtel in 2007 , Udo Lindenberg in 2008 , Gunter Sachs in 2009 , Aya Takano in 2010 Stefan Strumbel , 2012 Oliver Rath , 2013 Stefan Marx and 2014 André Saraiva .

literature

  • SWR3 - Das Magazin: “20. New Pop Festival “; Issue 08/2014

Web links

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

swell

  1. Swr3.de: Joe Cocker - His scream made him a rock legend by Jörg Lange from October 23, 2014 ( memento from December 26, 2014 in the Internet Archive ), accessed on December 26, 2014
  2. New Pop and Rock plus Retro-Soul ( Memento from May 13, 2012 in the Internet Archive )
  3. Clean Bandit and Nico & Vinz ( Memento from May 25, 2014 in the Internet Archive )
  4. New Pop Festival 2014: American Authors & Sam Smith ( Memento from May 13, 2014 in the Internet Archive )
  5. The next three have been determined: Cris Cab, Family Of The Year & London Grammar ( Memento from June 10, 2014 in the Internet Archive )
  6. The special and more at the 2015 SWR3 New Pop Festival