Video: Sziget Dates & New Acts Announced

  • 26 Jan 2017 9:20 AM
Video: Sziget Dates & New Acts Announced
Sziget, the one-week music and arts festival, will feature Kasabian, Interpol, Billy Talent, Flume, Crystal Fighters, Charli XCX in 2017. The 25th Sziget will be held between 9-16 August this year, again on the 'Island of Freedom' in the middle of Budapest.

Sziget offers 50 venues during 7 days of non-stop events. Probably this is the biggest multicultural festival around, where almost 500.000 people meet from more than 100 countries to celebrate music and arts. Recently awarded as 'Artists’ Favorite Festival' at the European Festival Award, the new program is announced continuously, and this time organizers have added 16 new names to the line-up.

The music program always aims to be as colorful as possible, representing almost all genres. Among the 16 names announced so far we can find many who will perform on the Main Stage, like Kasabian, Billy Talent, Jamie Cullum, The Kills, Clean Bandit and Metronomy.

The gigantic tent of A38 will host Interpol, Flume, Crystal Fighters, The Pretty Reckless, Fritz Kalkbrenner, Jagwar Ma, Charli XCX, Cashmere Cat, Danny Brown. The electronic music area, the Arena, will welcome Sunnery James & Ryan Marciano as well as Maurice West. The energetic band, Leningrad will perform on the World Music Stage.

Besides music there are hundreds of programs representing the most important performing arts, lincluding circus, contemporary theatre and dance, street theatres, and many more. In addition, activities like arts & crafts, sports, and also cinema will be available to visitors.

All acts announced so far, in alphabetical order:

Bad Religion
Billy Talent
Cashmere Cat
Charli XCX
Clean Bandit
Crystal Fighters
Danny Brown
Dimitri Vegas & Like Mike
DJ Shadow
Fritz Kalkbrenner
GTA
GusGus
Interpol
Jagwar Ma
Jamie Cullum
Kasabian
Kensington
Leningrad
Mac Demarco
Major Lazer
Maurice West
Metronomy
OH Wonder
Oliver Heldens
Sunnery James & Ryan Marciano
The Kills
The Pretty Reckless
Tom Odell
Two Door Cinema Club
Vince Staples
W&W

More: www.szigetfestival.com

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