Vilar de Mouros Festival

The Festival de Vilar de Mouros is the name of a Portuguese music festival in Vilar de Mouros.

History

It was organized for the first time on August 8, 1971 organized by the doctor António Barge, who wanted to use the 1965 -oriented than traditional music and folklore festival event as a stage for pop and rock bands. Elton John and Manfred Mann were the international guests, besides the Portuguese Artists Pop Five Music Incorporated, Psico, Quarteto 1111 Sindicato, Celos, Objectivo and Pentágono. Despite some organizational problems in the remote province of Minho the event with 30,000 visitors, was a success. It was the first major festival of pop music in Portugal. Compared with the prevailing conditions, particularly at major events, under the authoritarian Estado Novo regime, where there was a relaxed atmosphere and a relative freedom. The festival is therefore also sometimes called Portugal Woodstock Festival.

The festival grew in subsequent years, in those with names such as U2, Alanis Morissette, The Stone Roses, UB40 or Rammstein occurred some of the most well-known for their respective time pop / rock musicians and more and more people thronged. Also, alternative rock bands, such as Sonic Youth, Beck and Manu Chao, the festival among indie music fans made ​​known, while groups like Iron Maiden and Sepultura attracted friends harder sounds.

Once in Portugal, a variety of other music festivals emerged that were central, bigger sponsors had, and could muster as increasingly attractive and bigger names, the number of visitors went back in Vilar de Mouros. In 2006, the festival was last aligned. Occurred were doing Iggy Pop & The Stooges, Sepultura, Mojave 3, Tricky, The Durutti Column, Soulfly, Cradle of Filth, Moonspell and Xutos & Pontapés, including

Here a replacement festival for 20,000 people a planned, Energy Music Festival Vilar de Mouros called for mainly electronic music, which attracted about 10,000 visitors, with names such as Buraka Som Sistema, WhoMadeWho, Richie Campbell Only in 2011 was organized, including The also officially persisting desire to host a festival of original style again, failed in 2012 to financial and organizational problems of the license inhabenden organizer, the organizer of the Italian Sixty belonging Company Energy Portugal.