Exit Festival
Exit Festival is a music festival held every July at the Petrovaradin Fortress in Novi Sad, Serbia. The festival was founded in 2000 as a student movement, but has since grown into a full-blown serious 4-day event, with over 20 stages set up all across the fortresses’ many levels. The best thing about this location is the fact that the sounds from the numerous stages never mix, thanks to the structure of the fortress and its hilly terrain and sturdy walls.
The festival has won two Best Major Festival awards, one in 2013 and the second in 2017. Since the beginning, it has hosted many famous artists and bands, but in recent years the lineup has mostly focused on electronic music and bringing famous names of the DJ world, making its Dance Arena one of the strongest music stages dedicated to this genre, hosting performers such as David Guetta and Nina Krawitz.
Sziget Festival
Sziget festival is one of the largest music and cultural festivals in Europe. It is held every August in Budapest, on the island of Óbudai-sziget on the Danube river. The festival started in 1993 as a student event but has since grown to be one of the most famous and successful festivals in Europe, hosting over 1,000 performances each year. It takes place over the course of a whole week when the entire island turns into a camping site, and the visitors get a special “Szitizen passport”.
Many day-time performances and art installations have dubbed Sziget as the European equivalent of The Burning Man. The festival is also a two-time winner of the Best Major European Festival award, in 2011 and 2014. Sziget is also famous for its variety of genres, it has stages dedicated to blues, jazz, there is a world music stage, and of course, on the main stage, you can see many up-and-coming rock and pop artists and bands, such as Foo Fighters and Twenty One Pilots.