Almost 100,000 people bought a ticket to this year’s Roskilde Festival’s week-long celebration of music, arts and creative kinship. All profits from the festival are donated in full to charitable and cultural purposes, and the festival management expects to donate 2.5 million euro to charity following this year’s festival.
The last concert ended early Sunday morning after acts like Paul McCartney, Nicki Minaj, Africa Express and Jamie XX were among the acts on the last day at Roskilde Festival
Thousands of festival guests are currently leaving the festival site in Roskilde after eight days of music and community. Thus, the 45th Roskilde Festival comes to an end, and the gates to the camping areas close at 14.00 today.
Spokeswoman Christina Bilde says about the festival guests’ commitment throughout the past week:
”The communities in our festival city have made a big impression. With 100,000 people gathered so close it is impressive to see how participants organise parties and events for each other and build entire neighborhoods such as Dream City. All the while the police has reported about a peaceful festival full of happy guests.”
This year’s festival has featured more than 175 performances on eight stages by artists from over 30 countries.
Roskilde Festival’s head of programme Anders Wahren says:
”It really makes an impression to see how such a massive audience receives young artists like Kendrick Lamar and Disclosure on Orange Stage. It was also very touching to experience how Paul McCartney last night proved that his version of pop history could gather an audience across generations in one single crowd”.
”It is a privilege to be able to present concerts for an audience that navigates so curiously and open-mindedly through music from all corners of the world, whether it is classical avant-garde from the Kronos Quartet, hip-hop from Run the Jewels, African desert blues like Noura Mint Seymali or Die Antwoord’s completely outlandish party on the Orange Stage. We’re convinced that many guests have recalibrated their musical compass at this year’s festival.”
All profits donated to charity
Almost 100,000 people chose to buy a ticket to this year’s sold-out Roskilde Festival, including a total of 80,000 full festival tickets.
Roskilde Festival’s CEO Henrik Rasmussen says:
”We will know more about the final financial results in a few months. But already now, we have very good reason to be satisfied. With just under 100,000 ticket buyers and absolutely excellent sales in the stalls throughout the whole week, we believe that Roskilde Festival 2015 will generate a total profit of around 2,5 million euro. We will donate all profits to charitable and cultural purposes before next year’s festival.”
Roskilde Festival thanks the 31,000 volunteers whose desire to contribute and engage is the reason why the festival is possible.
Roskilde Festival 2016 takes place from 25 June to 2 July 2016.
About Roskilde Festival:
With approximately 175 music acts in the line-up performing on eight stages and over 100,000 passionate music lovers gathered for a full week, Roskilde Festival is among the most unique music festival experiences in the world. A position the festival has held since the early 1970s.
The full festival journey in Roskilde is an eight-day exploration of music, artistic expression, delicious food, sustainability, love, community and party – located just 35 kilometers outside of the Danish capital of Copenhagen, also the distance to the nearest international airport.
Roskilde Festival is 100 % non-profit and created by dedicated volunteers. All profits are donated to cultural and humanitarian purposes by the Roskilde Festival Charity Society.
