Smukfest
Smukfest is an annual music festival, held during the second weekend of August in Denmark. Its location, in a beech forest in the vicinity of Skanderborg, has given rise to the slogan "Denmarks' Most Beautiful Festival".
The festival covers many styles of music, such as rock, pop, folk, heavy metal, hip-hop and electronic.
The festival focuses mainly on Danish music, but with some big names from other countries e.g. Britney Spears, Eric Clapton, Prince, Pet Shop Boys, Ozzy Osbourne, Tom Jones, Fat Boy Slim, Blood Hound Gang, Rihanna and many more.
The first festival was held in 1980, and was a one-day event with 7 bands and about 600 spectators.
The festival has a mascot called "Waltidur Festismuk Kærligkys Ølimund Rockilund Trold", born in 1579, thus the festival was born on Waltidurs 400th birthday.
In 2009, Skanderborg Festival was held for the 30th time and is today the second largest festival in Denmark, after the Roskilde Festival. The festival gathered more than 50,000 people for the concerts, including 8,500 workers, most of them volunteers and has reached the current site's maximum capacity.
The festival is getting increasingly popular and all 40.000+ tickets for the 2017 festival was sold in less than 5 hours.Stages
The festival has 4 stages :
- Bøgescenerne / The Main Stages
- P3-teltet
- Stjerne-scenen
- Sherwood-scenen
The festival main stage consist of two stages and is called "Bøgescenerne".
