Peace & Love
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| Location(s) | Borlänge, Sweden |
| Years active | 1999 - present |
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| Date(s) | 2 -3 days, in june/july(5 days including theme days) |
| Genre(s) | Rock music, Pop, Hip Hop, Metal, World music, Swedish music |
| Website | http://www.peaceandlove.nu |
Peace & Love is an annual cultural festival located in Borlänge, Sweden. It started in 1999 with the vision to be something more than just a music festival among others.
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[edit] The Concept
The concept of Peace & Love is to spread the message of Diversity, Solidarity and Understanding. It’s about crossing borders and bringing differing cultures from near and afar together and trying to get people to change their attitudes towards themselves and others. The Peace & Love festival is still one of Scandinavians fastest growing festivals. In 2006 there were 15,000 visitors per day, with over 37,000 people attending in total. 2007 will be the 9th year for The Peace & Love festival.
[edit] The theme
Each year, Peace & Love focus on a subject that Peace & Love want their visitors to reflect about. At theme days prior to the festival the visitors can attend debates and lectures and participate in workshops and discussions regarding the theme.
Past years theme
2004 - Freedom of Speech
2005 - Environment
2006 - Democracy
2007 - Revolution
2008 - Solidarity
[edit] Artists
During the years foreign artist such as Patti Smith, New York Dolls, Ed Harcourt, Vive la Fête, Hanoi Rocks, Motörhead, Cut Copy, and Khonnor have entertained the crowd as well as big Swedish acts such as: The Cardigans, Thåström, Håkan Hellström, The Sounds, Mando Diao, Lars Winnerbäck, Ulf Lundell, Looptroop, The Hellacopters and Silverbullit among many others.
The band that has played most times at the Peace & Love festival are Sugarplum Fairy, a rock band from Borlänge whose two singers Carl and Victor are younger brothers of Gustaf Norén from the more known band Mando Diao, also a rock band from Borlänge.
Sugarplum Fairy has played every year since 2001.
This years version of Peace & Love featured music legends Alice Cooper and Iggy Pop with The Stooges. Other appearing acts included Maria McKee, Hanoi Rocks and Metal legends Opeth.
