Europe's 2005 Summer Music Festivals

There are over 30 festivals across Europe every year that support the live music industry. Here are just a few to check out if you're ready to add a wild time to your European summer vacation:

Hultsfred Festival
South-western Sweden
June 16 - 18
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The Hultsfred Festival is the largest and longest running youth-oriented music festival in Sweden. It started in 1986 by attracting a 7.000 attendance and has grown constantly since. The last four years almost 30.000 people payed entrance to the festival each year, which for The Hultsfred Festival means a more or less sold out festival (the maximum limit for 2004 is 25.000 people). Scheduled to perform: System of a Down, Snoop Dogg, Tori Amos, Slayer, Le Tigre, and many more

Provinssirock
Seinajoki, Finland
June 17 - 19
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Provinssirock - The Party Of The People - opens the festival summer every year, now 27th times. For three days, Seinäjoki city will be visited with a huge amount of people who enjoy music, art, Finnish summer and above all: the company of others. Scheduled to perform: Nine Inch Nails, Marilyn Manson, Nightwish, MEW, The Donnas, and more.

Rock Werchter
Werchter, Belgium
June 30 - July 3
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Running strong for over 30 years, this year's festival will feature the Chemical Brothers, Green Day, New Order, Nine Inch Nails, Snoop Dogg, Velvet Revolver, R.E.M., and more.

Roskilde Festival- Denmark
June 30 - July 5
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Humanitarian causes bring together Audioslave, Snoop Dogg, Green Day, Foo Fighters, and many others to perform in front of 90,000 hardcore music fans for a week of amazing live music. Each year, Roskilde Festival donates any profits from the festival to humanitarian and cultural purposes.

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EXIT
Novi Sad, Serbia
July 7 - 11
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During four days of this year’s festival, 10 out of 100 most successful world DJ’s of 2004, according to official list of respectable London magazine that is promoting DJ culture - DJ Mag, will gather in the same place. Also scheduled to appear are Slayer, DJ Sandy Rivera, and Garbage.

OXEGEN
Punchestown, County Kildare, Ireland
July 9 - 10
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2 Days, 5 stages. Already confirmed to appear are: Green Day, Foo Fighters,New Order, Queens Of The Stone Age, The Frames, Audioslave, The Streets, The Killers, Deep Dish, The Prodigy, Keane, The Beautiful South, Razorlight, Kasabian, Ian Brown, James Brown, Erick Morillo, Slam, Black Strobe, Rodrigo y Gabriela.

T in the Park-
Scotland
July 9 - 10
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From its beginnings at Strathclyde Country Park in 1994 to the eleventh year at Balado in 2004, T in the Park has grown in size and influence to become one of the most important and critically acclaimed music events on the international festival circuit, as well as Scotland's most popular outdoor event.

10 Days Off
Ghent - Belgium
July 15 - 25
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The "Internationale" can be heard once again during 10 Days Off. DJs and producers of all
nationalities, rejoice at the high mass of dance! The Anglo-Saxon hegemony has ceased to exist in the dance world, too. 10 Days Off 2005 is host to a very diverse group of DJs and musicians from all over the globe. From Chile, Brazil and Canada to Switzerland and Denmark, the only rule is that of the universal language of beat and groove.

US house legends David Morales and Frankie Knuckles, the evil twins Abe Duque and Blake Baxter who keep re-inventing techno on the spot, and the Italian bossa-jazz Don Nicola Conte.

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Benicassim Festival
Benicassim, Spain
August 4 - 7
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Mediterranean festival for over 40,000 fans. Scheduled to perform: Oasis, The Cure, Ya Lo Tengo, Mylo, Radio 4, The Kills, and more.

PUKKELPOP
Hasselt-Kiewit, Belgium
August 18 - 20
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Celebrating its 20th anniversary with 8 stages of the best progressive, alternative, and contemporary music of today and tomorrow. Scheduled to perform are The Prodigy, Korn, Franz Ferdinand, Marilyn Manson, Good Charlotte, The Posies, and many more.