Smukfest (also known as the Skanderborg Festival) is an annual music festival, held during the second weekend of August in Denmark.
01 · What it is
Music
Vocal, percussive, or instrumental sound tradition carried by community performers.
02 · Where & name
Denmark
Written in its own script on record as Smukfest.
03 · How it is doing
□□□□ (Not yet assessed)
Documented in open cultural records, but no cited field assessment of its current vitality has been added here yet.
04 · Proof & reuse
2 cited sources
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Chapter Takeaways
StagesThe festival has 4 stages (2016):
Common Questions Answered on Record
What is Skanderborg Festival in plain words?
Smukfest (also known as the Skanderborg Festival) is an annual music festival, held during the second weekend of August in Denmark. In local script on record, it is written Smukfest.
Where is Skanderborg Festival practised or documented?
Sources on this page place Skanderborg Festival in Denmark.
What is the current condition of Skanderborg Festival today?
□□□□ (Not yet assessed): Documented in open cultural records, but no cited field assessment of its current vitality has been added here yet.
How do I cite or share this Skanderborg Festival entry?
Cite as: "Skanderborg Festival." folkroom, https://folkroom.org/art-forms/skanderborg-festival, text CC BY-SA, with attribution.
Smukfest (also known as the Skanderborg Festival) is an annual music festival, held during the second weekend of August in Denmark. Its location, in a beech forest in the vicinity of Skanderborg, has given rise to the slogan "Denmark's Most Beautiful Festival" (Danish: Danmarks Smukkeste Festival).
The festival covers many styles of music, such as rock, pop, folk, heavy metal, hip-hop and electronic.
The festival focuses mainly on Danish music, but with some big names from other countries e.g. Britney Spears, Eric Clapton, Prince, Pet Shop Boys, Ozzy Osbourne, Tom Jones, Robbie Williams, Fat Boy Slim, Blood Hound Gang, Rihanna and many more.
The first festival was held in 1980, and was a one-day event with 7 bands and about 600 spectators.
The festival has a mascot called "Waltidur Festismuk Kærligkys Ølimund Rockilund Trold" (Waltidur Party-beauty Loving-kiss Beer-in-mouth Rock-in-grove Troll), born in 1579, thus the festival was born on Waltidurs 400th birthday.
In 2009, Skanderborg Festival was held for the 30th time and is today the second largest festival in Denmark, after the Roskilde Festival. The festival gathered more than 50,000 people for the concerts, including 8,500 workers, most of them volunteers and has reached the current site's maximum capacity. 1
Stages
The festival has 4 stages (2016): 1
Bøgescenerne / The Main Stages
P3-teltet (Danish National Radio has a station called P3)
Stjerne-scenen (Star Stage)
Sherwood-scenen (Sherwood Stage)
The festival main stage consist of two stages and is called "Bøgescenerne" (Beech stages). 1
The text above is adapted from the Wikipedia article “Smukfest”, available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 licence. 1
Skanderborg Festival is annual music festival in Denmark, according to the structured record cited below. This entry was generated automatically from that record and has not yet been reviewed by a person familiar with the tradition. 2
The source record links this tradition to 3 external registers, which can be verified through the citation. 2