Years active 1996 - currently Dates 21 Jul – 22 Jul 2017 | Location Alburquerque, Spain Genres Indie pop, Twee pop | |
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Similar Festival Internacional de Benic, Low Festival, Ebrovisión, Arenal Sound Festival, Bilbao BBK Live Profiles | ||
Contempopánea is an Indie pop Music festival that takes place every summer in Alburquerque, Badajoz; however, since 2014, the festival has been divided between this city and the capital city of Badajoz. During the festival, many artists of the Spanish indie music and thousands of their followers meet.
The festival, which was first celebrated in 1996, after being verified the success of festivals like the Benicàssim, has been consolidated like a fundamental reference inside the universe of indie festivals that are celebrated in Spain. The dynamic of this festival is quite different to the one in the rest of the mass music festivals, this is because of its only stage, its short 2 days duration, its limited capacity (around 4000 people), and forever audience who normally repeat the experience every year.
Every year, it is also organized a tribute to a legendary group which is already dissolved, like, for example, The Smiths, Family, Los Flechazos... fro what every group invited to the festival have to play a song of the group selected for that year.
Artists that have been playing in Contempopránea
The festival is mainly organized for Spanish indie groups, but there has also been some foreign groups at the festival, even so, the Spanish ones are the predominant ones.
At the same time, this festival has also been an opportunity for a lot of groups, because previously to the festival, it ir organized a demo competition.
