Przystanek Woodstock
Woodstock Stop (Polish Przystanek Woodstock ) is an annual early August in Polish Kostrzyn nad Odra ( Kuestrin on the Oder ) held -find Rock Festival. It 's motto is " love, friendship and music " and is held regularly since 1995.
The rock festival was created with the idea to thank all the people who every year in Poland engaged in January in the collection of donations for children's hospitals help. It is organized by the Foundation Wielka Orkiestra Christmas Charity. This foundation also assumes the costs for the entire event. 2004 were among the organizers 400,000 visitors in 2007 were about 300,000 counted. 2011, the Festival a number of visitors of over 700,000. Model and namesake for this event was the Woodstock Festival and the then popular in Poland television series Northern Exposure, which was called in Poland Przystanek Alaska. Occur each year nationally and internationally known artists on. 2002 and 2005, among others, Die Toten Hosen, 2011 The Prodigy and 2013 Ugly Kid Joe were there. Furthermore arise in the tent of the Academy of beautiful arts celebrities the questions of the festival participants. 2009, about Lech Wałęsa, Bronisław Komorowski and Joachim Gauck 2012 and 2013, the music manager Peter Jenner.
2008 - 14th Station
2008, there were 150,000 to 200,000 visitors at the festival, including 30,000 in Germany. The festival lasted for the first time three days from 1st to 3rd August. In addition to Polish and German bands, such as Thee Flanders was the Swedish-Norwegian band Clawfinger and the British band The Stranglers at the festival. Wieslaw Ochman addition occurred with the Polish choir of seven tenors and the Orchestra of the Teatr Mazowiecki Muzyczny Operetka. The bands were given an allowance of 125,00 euros for their appearance. The program of the festival were also numerous cultural events; among other things, an Indian cinema, discussions with writers such as Manuela Gretkowska, and politicians such as former finance minister and head of the National Bank of Poland Leszek Balcerowicz. New in 2008 were the first Olympic Games in Woodstock with the possibility of athletic competition and a final " marathon " on the festival grounds. Was secured, the festival next to the 1000 -strong festival 's own Pokojowy Patrol ( Peace Patrol ), which mainly recruited from among young people, also of ten German officers.
2009 - 15th Station
Like last year, the festival lasted another three days ( July 31-August 2 ) and it was according to the organizers about 400,000 to 500,000 visitors at the festival. On July 31, opened Brandenburg Youth Minister Holger Rupprecht and former Polish President Lech Walesa the festival. Another record was the number of blood donations; about 2000 people donated at mobile blood donation point. On the main stage occurred 30 musicians and bands, including Caliban, Clawfinger, Volbeat, Dżem, Guano Apes, The Subways and Juliette Lewis. In the so-called village of the arts, politicians and artists took questions from the audience. Here were Lech Walesa, among other things, Tadeusz Mazowiecki, Leszek Możdżer and Michael Lang, the organizer of the Woodstock Festival of 1969 During the festival, there was also a fatality. ; a 35 -year-old died in his tent to circulatory failure.
2010 - 16th Station
In 2010, about 250,000 to 300,000 visitors at the festival. Among the approximately 50 occurred bands and musicians were Ewelina Flinta (Poland), Nigel Kennedy ( UK), Life of Agony (USA), Leszek Możdżer (Poland), Papa Roach (USA) and Peyoti for President (UK). At the Academy of the most beautiful arts ( Academy of Fine Przepięknych ASP) presented, among others, Jerzy Buzek, Marek Kondrat and Andrzej Wajda questions. Furthermore, the films Beats of Freedom were - Zew Wolności and Katyn shown. The city of Łódź and the cinema Cytryna organized Łódź_Stock. In this the film studio Se -ma -for were among other guests, some scenery items were issued from the Museum of Cinematography in Łódź and shown different movies. For the safety ensured 1,200 police officers, 200 firefighters and 70 employees of the railway security service.
2011 - 17th Station
The 17th stop took place from 4 to 6 August 2011 and so it began officially been on a Thursday and ended Saturday night. Among the bands listed Gentleman & The Evolution, The Prodigy, Helloween, H -Blockx, Dog Eat Dog, Kontrust, Platform - Project Grechuta, Talco and Airbourne. Guests of the Academy of Fine Arts have included Marek Belka, Marek Piotr Pustelnik and Koterski. Also, various non-governmental organizations were represented at the festival. So Greenpeace Polska, fundacja ITAKA, Klub Gaja, the Independent Student Association and the German partner of the Great Orchestra of Christmas Charity, the Children's Fund eV Seelow. For the concert of The Prodigy barriers have been erected in front of the stage. This was the first time that such barriers were erected. The band's management requested this for security reasons. This contradicted the will of the main perpetrators of the festival Jerzy Owsiak and led after the concert discussions. John Fairs, Manager of The Prodigy wrote in a press statement, it would be the least secure festival of its 25 - year career. Owsiak contradicted the. He referred to the 3.50 -meter-high stage, through which independently created an alley in front of the stage and on the experiences of 17 festivals in which it had never come without barriers to accidents.
According to police, more than 700,000 people attended the festival.
2012 - 18th Station
The 18th festival was held August 4, 2012 from 2. Among others were The Darkness, Machine Head, Ministry, Sabaton, to In Extremo, Shantel and Elektryczne Gitary.
The official opening was attended by both the President of Poland, Bronisław Komorowski, and the German Federal President Joachim Gauck.
2013 - 19th Station
The festival took place from the 1st to the 3rd of August and had about 450,000 visitors. Among the performing bands were Anthrax, Atari Teenage Riot, Danko Jones, Enter Shikari, color theory, Kaiser Chiefs, Leningrad, Third World and Ugly Kid Joe. In the tent of the Academy of beautiful arts, among others, the music manager Peter Jenner, General Roman Polko the priest Adam Boniecki took questions from the festival participants. About 1200 policemen from various provinces and Germany were responsible for the security of the festival. At the opening of the festival 160,000 participants were already on the festival grounds. On August 2, it came at the live broadcast of the program Szkło kontaktowe an incident. A 25 -year-old climbed onto the stage and beat the journalists Grzegorz Miecugow before he could be detained by the security guards. The police arrested him then.