Genre Music Festival Years active 2 | Location(s) Greece | |
Inaugurated June 2015Athens, Greece | ||
Colour Day Festival is a summer festival in Greece with music and coloured powder. It takes place on a Saturday in June, from 12 noon to 11 pm.
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Colour Day Festival is one of the most famous festivals in Greece, with more than 40.000 attendees.
Beginnings
Colour Day Festival first took place in Athens in June 20, 2015 with more than 32.000 attendees. The first Festival was held in OAKA Stadium. During the Festival, there were three throwings of coloured power, starting at 5 pm. At the end of the night, everyone is being covered with colour. According to news.gr, more than 100.000 bags of colour were used at the first Colour Day Festival.
Growth
In 2015 the Colour Day Festival gothered more than 32.000 attendees. The second Colour Day Festival was held in June 18, 2016 at OAKA, with more than 40.000 attendees. Colour Day Festival 2017 will be held in Athens on June 17, 2017.
Procedure
The festival begins at 12 noon. The first guests arrive and some local warm-up DJs are performing. Each of the acts plays for about 20–30 minutes. –2 hours. At 5 pm everyone comes together for the first simultaneous colour throw of the day. This is then repeated twice. At about 11pm the event is over and the music stops. The festival usually takes place on a Saturday. An aftermovie video is produced after each event and onsite photo team follows each event, publishing pictures on the respective Facebook pages.
Set Up
There is one large stage where the DJs or the artists perform. There are also kiosks for food and drinks and kiosks for medical care. The colour powder is provided with the ticket, but can also be bought at the festival as well, along with various merchandise products, like T-shirts and hats.
2015
Agent Greg
Dino MFU
DJ Marnick
DJ Young & Tay
GOD IS A DJ.GR (Sparky T, Anastasio, M. Koutsakos)
HouseTwins
Instamix
Michael Tsaousopoulos
Mossel
Robin Skouteris
Live Act: Melisses
Special Guests
Claydee
Playmen
Sad Puppy
DJ The Boy
B-Sykes
Yalena
Ermal Mamaqi
2016
A Flow Mobz
Anastasio
Arva & Anastasios Rammos
Asterios Haritos
Dino MFU
George Siras
HouseTwins
Michael Tsaousopoulos
Mossel
Playmen
Sysex
The Mode
Xenia Ghali
Live Act: Melisses
Special Guests
Andy Nicolas
Claydee
Faydee
Lariss
Social Media
Colour Day Festival can be also found on Facebook, Instagram and YouTube.
YouTube Channel