Ozora Festival

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O.Z.O.R.A.
OZORA Festival.jpg
Ozora Festival 2010.
GenreElectronic music, psychedelic trance
Location(s)Ozora, Hungary
Years active2004–present
Attendance30,000 (official); 60,000-70,000 (de facto)[1]
Websiteozorafestival.eu

The Ozora Festival, stylised as O.Z.O.R.A., is an annual transformational festival and arts festival in the Hungarian village of Ozora.

History and growth[]

The festival has been held on an estate in Ozora near the small village of every year since 2004.[2] The first modern music festival held in Ozora was called Solipse and took place during the Solar eclipse of August 11, 1999. Solipse' had a sequel in Zambia 2001, https://www.goabase.net/festival/solipse-2001/4118 but in Ozora' did not get a sequel until the first Ozora Festival was held in 2004.

The Ozora is with Solar Festival one of the two sizeable transformational festival festivals in Hungary, one of the largest psychedelic trance festivals in Europe, Ozora is similar to the Boom Festival in Portugal, Burning Man in United States, Fusion Festival in Germany one of the Most Famous Festivals in the World, who also reach more than 40,000 visitors every year.[3]

Due to its success, several one-day spin-offs from the Ozora Festival have been held in several other countries such as Tokyo, Japan,[4] Paris, France[5] and São Paulo, Brazil.[6]

Reception[]

Ozora is considered one of the "leading festivals" around the world,[7] "one of the largest gatherings of trance and psychedelic music in the world",[8] and according to Trax Magazine "the principal hub of psytrance culture in Europe".[5] La Dernière Heure likened Ozora to an "ecological Tomorrowland with the Peace & Love atmosphere of a 21st-century Woodstock".[9]

Gallery[]

  • Main stage at day 2013

  • Main stage at night 2013

  • Chillout stage 2013

  • Carbon Based Lifeforms performing in 2013

  • Firefighters cooling dancers off

  • Camping site

  • Artistic decorations

See also[]

References[]

  1. ^ "Bienvenue au festival Ozora, un "Tomorrowland" hongrois à l'esprit très hippie". RTL.be (in French). 15 September 2016. Retrieved 25 August 2018.
  2. ^ "O.Z.O.R.A. Festival".
  3. ^ Jimmy Bricks (6 December 2017). "From bush doof to clowncore: your favourite underground music scenes". The Guardian. Retrieved 24 August 2018.
  4. ^ "O.Z.O.R.A. One Day in Tokyo 2020 NIGHT".
  5. ^ Jump up to: a b Thémis Belkhadra (22 March 2017). "Comment le gigantesque festival psytrance Ozora veut conquérir la France". Trax Magazine (in French). Retrieved 24 August 2018.
  6. ^ "Ozora também desembarcará no Brasil em 2016". Wonderland in Rave (in Portuguese). 8 December 2015. Retrieved 25 August 2018.
  7. ^ "Get psychedelic this weekend in Bengaluru". The Times of India. 14 June 2018. Retrieved 25 August 2018.
  8. ^ Pierre Vangrootloon (13 August 2013). "Ozora, l'autre Tomorrowland". La Libre Belgique (in French). Archived from the original on 25 August 2018. Retrieved 25 August 2018.
  9. ^ Pierre Vangrootloon (16 August 2013). "Ozora, l'autre Tomorrowland". La Dernière Heure (in French). Retrieved 25 August 2018.

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