Peninsula / Félsziget Festival

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Peninsula / Félsziget Festival
Location(s)	Târgu Mureș, Romania
Years active	2003-present
Date(s)	July
Genre	Rock, pop, electro
Website

Peninsula / Félsziget is a music festival taking place annually in July or August in Transylvania, Romania. Since 2013 the festival has been moved from Targu Mures to Cluj-Napoca. In 2014 the festival has been moved back home to Târgu Mureș.

History

The first edition of the festival goes back to 2003. Organised by some members of the team of Sziget Festival, Peninsula (in Romanian) or Félsziget (in Hungarian) has grown steadely in terms of audience (from 20,000 in 2003 to 60,000 in 2009) as in the number, the variety and the quality of the bands: at the first edition there were only Hungarian and Romanian bands, while today there are bands from all over the world.^[1]

The festival today

Peninsula / Félsziget is an eclectic festival, with stages for different musical styles: rock, metal, pop, electro, world music, folk, hip-hop, blues and jazz. Today, the festival gathers yearly some 10 to 15 great bands and some 40 to 70 bands coming from most of the Central and Eastern European countries as well, bands which are more or less known outside their countries' borders.

Besides, the festival features a number of other activities: about 30 sports (football, table tennis, badminton, beach volleyball, chess, sumo, paintball, archery, zip-line, kayaking, swimming etc.) including some extreme sport facilities (bungee jumping, climbing etc.), movie projections in partnership with the Transilvania International Film Festival, theatre shows, stand-up comedy shows, graffiti contests and other creative activities, ecological workshops, volunteering workshops and training etc.

All these make Peninsula/Félsziget one of Romania's largest music festivals.

Line-up

Year	Main artists
2012	Children of Bodom Tinie Tempah The Straits Ákos Netsky Dirtyphonics N.O.H.A. Emalkay Subscribe Zdob și Zdub Republic Vama Vița de Vie New Model Army Besh o droM Șuie Paparude Babylon Circus
2011	Guano Apes Foreign Beggars K's Choice Kasabian Danko Jones Markus Schulz Grimus Iggy Pop & The Stooges Within Temptation HammerFall Dub FX Tiga
2010	Dub FX Tricky KoЯn The Rasmus Europe Fedde le Grand Ska-P Above and Beyond Sub Focus Noisia Babylon Circus Hernan Cattaneo Parov Stelar Gorillaz Nero (band) Therapy? Félix Lajkó Phoenix Omega Tankcsapda Zdob si Zdub Quimby Vama Subscribe PASO Suie Paparude Puya Grimus Beatrice Charlie Irie Maffia Pokolgép Taxi (band) Sarmalele Reci
2009	The Prodigy Nine Inch Nails Tiësto Freestylers Tankcsapda Neo Primal Scream Kispál és a Borz Grimus Blank & Jones Chase & Status Kaukázus Grimus DJ Gojira Sarmalele Reci
2008	Avantasia Morcheeba Beatsteaks Epica LTJ Bukem & MC Conrad Tankcsapda Subscribe Kispál és a Borz Republic 30Y Kalapács The Mushroom Story Ektomorf Vama Fading Circles Vita de Vie Altar
2007	Theatre of Tragedy Kosheen Pendulum (band) Gojira The Exploited Tankcsapda Kispál és a Borz Vita de Vie Altar Ossian Depresszió Ákos Quimby Gogol Bordello The Booze Brothers
2006	The Rasmus Moby Dick Bikini Tankcsapda Phoenix Altar Alvin es a mokusok
2005	Apocalyptica Freestylers Tankcsapda Ossian
2004	Chumbawamba Republic Moby Dick Tankcsapda
2003

References

↑ Festival's history till 2010 (Romanian)

External links

Félsziget Official homepage (English)

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