Sunburn Festival

History

Electronic music parties/events/festivals are not new to Goa and much earlier pioneers of free party's/events/festivals with live DJ's mixing, art,craft's and food stalls started in the late 1980s and continued through all of the 1990s into the early 2000s where they played Goa trance, Psychedelic trance, and Techno and were held at Vagator Beach, Anjuna beach and Arambol beach. The arrival of commercialized events such as Sunburn arrived in Goa when mainstream EDM gained more widespread popularity within India.

Sunburn Goa 2007

In 2007, Nikhil Chinapa organized the first International Dance Music Festival in Goa, India. Sunburn Goa 2007 was sponsored by Smirnoff and took place on December 28–29 at Candolim Beach. In its first year Sunburn included performances from Carl Cox, Above & Beyond and Axwell as headline acts. Other acts included John 00 Fleming, Pete Gooding, DJ Pearl, Jalebee Cartel, Super 8 & Tab, held on two stages with DJ's playing simultaneously. The festival was hosted by Nikhil Chinapa and Rohit Barker. The line-up announcement and early bird passes commenced during the end of October.

Sunburn Goa 2008

Sunburn Goa 2008 was held despite the 2008 Mumbai terrorist attacks which took place exactly a month prior to the festival. The festival was themed Electric Circus and was held on two main stages: "Banyan Tree" for Trance acts and "Circus Stage" for House music. The event also included a flea market and beach volleyball games. Having tied up with Defected Records in 2008, the label brought house DJ's Simon Dunmore, Shapeshifters, Copyright and percussionist Shovel playing. Headlining the festival were GMS, Gareth Emery and John 00 Fleming. The acts were Digital Blonde, Roger Shah, Pearl, Brute Force, Nawed Khan, Vachan Chinnappa, Jalebee Cartel, Sanjay Dutta, and Ma Faiza. The visuals were produced by Dan booth, Martin Robins, Vj Kaycee & Inferno. Sunburn Goa 2008 took place on 27–29 December at Candolim Beach Goa. The title sponsors of Sunburn Goa 2008 were Fly Kingfisher, Carlsberg and Force India.

Sunburn Goa 2009

Sunburn Goa 2009 had turnout of over 22,000 fans. It also saw the launch of "After Dark" parties which took place at club Butter from 10.30 pm until 5 am, making Sunburn a 24-hour festival. Sunburn brought DJ Armin Van Buuren, who headlined the festival along with Latin House DJ's Roger Sanchez and John 00 Fleming. Sunburn’s line-up also included tech house DJ Sultan and Trance DJ Sander Van Doorn. Previously in 2008, Sunburn had tied up with Defected Records, but in 2009 Sunburn tied up with UK clubbing company Gatecrashers. Acts included Jalebee Cartel, DJ Pearl, Ma Faiza, Nawed Khan and Designer Hippies. The festival was hosted by Nikhil Chinapa and Rohit Barker. In addition to the previous year’s attractions, Sunburn Goa 2009 included a rock climbing wall and Thai foot masseurs.

Sunburn Goa 2010

Sunburn Goa 2010, took place on 27–29 December at Candolim Beach. The festival was sponsored by Tuborg. The headliners of the 2010 festival were Paul Van Dyk, Ferry Corsten and Axwell along with Sultan & Ned Shepard with Nadia Ali (Live), Richard Durand, GMS, Pete Gooding, Aly & Fila and DJ's DJ Pearl, Ma Faiza, Anish Sood and Sanjay Dutta.

For the 2010 festival, Percept ran a "Sunburn Anthem Contest" for potential audio and visual producers, with participants in the visual category allowed to make a visual for a B.R.E.E.D track which is then submitted to a panel of judges. Participants in the audio category are asked to make a fresh remix of Nadia Ali’s ‘Love Story’ which is the Anthem of the festival.

A fashion show was organized on 27 December at Club Butter. Sunburn passes went live on 5 November 2010 with the early bird passes and pre-booking sale passes being sold out in 22 minutes.

Sunburn Goa 2011

Sunburn Goa 2011 was held on 27–29 December at Candolim Beach. The main attraction was Above & Beyond, Axwell, Infected Mushroom, Spartaque

Sunburn Goa 2012

Sunburn Festival 2012 was held in Candolim, Goa, India during Dec 27, 28 &29th. Headlining acts in 2012 were by Sander Van Doorn, BT, Fedde Le Grand, W & W, Paul Van dyk, Roger Sanchez. After-parties for Sunburn 2012 were held at LPK( Love Passion Karma ) and Sinq .

Sunburn Goa 2013

The 7th Edition of Sunburn at Goa took place in Vagator witnessed around 120 Artists and over 200 hours of Music. it had over 10,000sq.m,of exotic festival area with 7 massive stages.headline DJ's were Afrojack, Axwell, Pete Tong, Ummet Ozcan and many more Over 1 Lakh participants were expected.

Sunburn concerts in IITs, NITs, IIMs & Other Colleges

Many IITs,NITs IIIT and few AIIMS also witnessed numerous Indian and International artists. BITS Pilani Goa Campus was the first college to ever host the sunburn on campus.

This strategy by Sunburn helps grow the craze of Electronic Dance Music in teenagers and it also shows a new modern trend evolving in colleges throughout India.NIT Caliut hosted Sunburn in October 2013((ft.DJ Clement)) as a part of their Annual Technical Festival Tathva.Thakur College of Engineering & Technology- Mumbai hosted Sunburn in September 2013 (featuring DJ Candice Redding and NDS & BLU) additionally, BITS Pilani, Pilani Campus also successfully hosted Sunburn during Oasis 2014, the annual cultural festival of BITS PILANI. Annual cultural fest of LNMIIT Vivacity was first to host sunburn festival in Rajasthan in 2015. DCSMAT Institutions,Vagamon also hosted sunburn campus during their LUMINANCE 2K15 and is conducting the same on Nov 12,2016.Candice Redding along with DJ Shaan had performed in the second edition of Sunburn at Vivacity 2016. This was the only time when passes of Sunburn was free of cost. NIT Trichy hosted Sunburn (featuring DJ Candice Redding) during Festember '14, their annual cultural festival. IIIT-Bhubaneswar also successfully hosted Sunburn in ADVAITA 2014, Annual Cultural festival if IIIT Bhubaneswar. IIM Kashipur also hosted Sunburn in January 2015 as a part of their Cultural Fest Agnitraya 2015, other premier Institute like Graphic Era University, Dehradun in May 2015, Birla Institute of Technology, Mesra also hosted Sunburn in March 2015 as a part of their Annual Fest Bitotsav. IIT Indore hosted sunburn in Fluxus 2016.

Jaypee University of Engineering & Technology ,Guna (MP) hosted Sunburn in D'Equinox 2016 include Sunburn festival with Ankur Sood ,Progressive Brothers and Candice Redding.MBM engineering college ,Jodhpur also hosted sunburn in April 2016 as a part of their fest vigour2k16.

Sunburn Goa 2014

The 8th edition took place in Vagator on 27th, 28, 29th and 30th Dec 2014 and for the first time the festival was extended for an extra day and was performed by World no 2 Dj then Dimitri Vegas & Like Mike and witnessed around 150 DJ's. Known artists includes Knife Party, Sander van Doorn, Sasha, Krewella, Baauer, Danny Avila, Head Hunterz, Deniz Koyu, Dubvision, Paul Oakenfold, Matthew Koma, MAKJ, Michael and Tarzan Woods performed at the festival.

Sunburn Goa 2015

The 9th edition is another 4 day event at Vagator, Goa. On November 20, 2015 Sunburn Goa's international ticketing partner, Viagogo, announced that the festival has become one of the largest international music festivals in Asia, with people from more than 42 countries buying tickets on the viagogo platform. On November 24, 2015, the management of Sunburn Goa also released a statement citing this fact and proving to fans in India that they did not need to travel half way around the world to get the same experience as Festival Tomorrowland. Sunburn Goa 2015 is expected to draw the largest crowds since its inception. This year's artist lineup will be equally lavish with over 120 artists like Sam Feldt, KYGO, Seth Troxler, Dimitri Vegas & Like Mike, Martin Garrix, DJ SMITH, Kshmr, David Guetta, Dyro, Felix Jaehn, Zaeden and Art Department taking the stage.