The world renowned Glastonbury unsurprisingly continues to top the charts in attendance and profitability, and is ranked amongst the best music festivals in the world. Last year, a day pass was only $15. Tickets are already sold out for this year's edition which will take place from The Electric Daisy Carnival is the third electronic music festival to make the list. The festival has won the International Dance Music Award for “Best Electronic Music Event” every year since 2012. The oldest 100,000-crowd concert reported to Billboard Boxscore is Grateful Dead's gig at the Raceway Park, Englishtown, New Jersey on September 3, 1977. This particular one has been scheduled to take place in four different locations this year. Arabic, African, and international music performances are hosted at the Mawazine. This is probably because of the rising price of concert tickets. In fact, it is the largest music festival held in the Western Hemisphere. It is from 1978 that the festival became an annual event.Known for promoting and launching the works of new talents, the Hong Kong international film festival was founded in 1977, the festival became an independent and charitable organisation from 2005. Summerfest in the US state of Wisconsin, established in 1968, was named by Guinness World Records as the "world's largest music festival" in 1999. Donauinselfest is the largest music festival in the world. The festival was first held in 2001 under the patronage of the King of Summerfest is an annual music festival held in the Henry Maier Festival Park by a lakefront in Glastonbury boasts of the title of "the largest green-field music and performing arts festival in the world”. This festival rose out of the underground and right into the public’s eye due to the 2014 Sundance Film Festival documentary The New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Festival is the oldest music festival to make the list. It is an annual festival held in the Moroccan capital of Rabat over a period of nine days. Majidi is also the founder of the group “Moroc Culture” which organized various cultural events in the country, the biggest of which is Mawazine. Leading rock and pop artists perform in the festival alongside new and upcoming artists. US singer CeeLo Green and dancers with the Moroccan flag during Mawazine festival in 2013 The addition of a fourth location in the Western United States is assured to bring in a much larger crowd this year. Last year, the festival was attended by 330,000 concert goers. These are external links and will open in a new window It bills itself as bringing together the best names in Arabic, African and international music for nine days of shows and concerts. Most of them come from the UK, Belgium, the Netherlands, and Germany. Coachella has been held every year since 1999 in Indio, California. Summerfest takes place in Milwaukee, Wisconsin in Henry Maier Festival Park.
What do most people think of when they hear the words “music festival”? It is inspired by the legendary Woodstock Festival of the US and was previously named the Woodstock Festival Poland. Danube Island already calls itself Europe's largest open-air free festival - which it works out using a combination of counting people in, and estimating the size of the crowds using aerial photography.Guinness monitors the superlative in each category and so doesn't keep track of 2nd, 3rd or 4th.In the Moroccan capital, Rabat, more than 2 million people attend Mawazine every year. It hold various awards and competitions every year to acknowledge the work the film-makers such as Asian Digital Competition, Humanitarian Awards for Documentaries, The Fresh Wave Short Film Competition, etc. Many festivals highlight the fact they are, by some definition, the largest. Mawazine is a celebration of Moroccan culture and arts started by Mounis Majidi, the personal secretary to King Mohammad IV. This page lists the highest-attended concerts of all time. These are external links and will open in a new windowWhen it comes to music festivals, the biggest may not necessarily be the best.But some of the best-known - such as Glastonbury or Woodstock - are famous not only for the quality of the acts, but also for their size.The music festival industry is currently worth $3bn (£2.28bn) globally and continues to grow, according to research by Festicket, which arranges tickets and accommodation for music festivals. They also allow cultural exchange and add to the revenues of the tourist industry of the country. Typically their minds are drawn to the image of Woodstock and a muddy field invaded by hippies selling tie-dye shirts and grilled cheese sandwiches, among other things, out of their VW Micro Bus. Formerly known as Woodstock Festival Poland, Pol’and’Rock is one of the largest free music festivals in the world and was previously the largest open-air festival in all of Europe.
The awards given out by this festival are Golden Lion, Silver Lion, Lion of the Future, Jaeger-LeCoultre Glory to the Filmmaker Award, etc. It is scheduled to take place from March 27Tomorrowland began in 2005 and has since become one of the most recognized music festivals in the world. Qingming Festival 清明节.