Sunburn Festival

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Sunburn Festival
Genre	Electronic dance music
Dates	Last Weekend/3 Days Of The Year
Location(s)	Vagator, Goa (2007–2015) Pune, Maharashtra (2016–2018) Vagator, Goa (2019–Present)
Years active	2007–present
Website	sunburn.in

Sunburn is a commercial electronic dance music festival held in India. From 2007 to 2015, to took place in Vagator, Goa, India every year, but in 2016 it was shifted to Pune, Maharashtra. However, for 2019, the festival came back to it home town in Vagator, Goa. It is Asia's largest music festival. The festival is an amalgamation of Music, Entertainment, Food and Shopping, and was ranked by CNN in 2009 as one of the Top 10 Festivals in the world.^[1] Mayank Kataria is the major event promoter. The Festival was incepted by serial entrepreneur ,^[2] while Jt MD of Percept. Under his captaincy, the festival grew to be ranked the 3rd largest dance festival in the world, after Tomorrowland and Ultra as per the IMS APAC Business Report 2014.^[3] Spread over 3 days, the festival has multiple stages with artists playing simultaneously.^[4]

History[]

Electronic music parties/events/festivals are not new to Goa and much earlier pioneers of free party's/events/festivals with live DJs mixing, art, crafts 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 electronic dance music gained more widespread popularity within India.

Sunburn Goa 2007[]

In 2007, Shailendra Singh organized the first International Dance Music Festival in Goa, India. Sunburn Goa 2007 was sponsored by Smirnoff and took place on 28–29 December 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 DJs 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 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 DJs 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, DJ 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.^{[citation needed]} 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 DJs 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 . 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 DJs DJ Pearl, Ma Faiza, Anish Sood and Sanjay Dutta.

For the 2010 festival, Percept ran a "Sunburn Anthem Contest"^[5] 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.^[6]

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 27, 28 Dec & 29.^[7] 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 DJs were Afrojack, Axwell, Pete Tong, Ummet Ozcan and many more Over 1 Lakh participants were expected.^[4]

Sunburn concerts in IITs, NITs, LNMIIT, BITS, IIMs, IISERs& Other Colleges[]

Many IITs, NSIT, 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 Calicut 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. AAROHI, the annual cultural festival of VNIT, Nagpur and one of the largest and oldest in Central India, witnessed the performance by DJ Kash Trivedi at Sunburn Campus in 2015. DCSMAT Institutions, Vagamon hosted sunburn in their campus for the first time during LUMINANCE 2K15 and has been hosting them since then till 2018. 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.^[8] IIIT-Bhubaneswar also successfully hosted Sunburn in ADVAITA 2014, Annual Cultural festival of 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 Information Technology, Solan (HP) hosted Sunburn in 2015 include Sunburn festival with DJ LIZA BROWN and LOST STORIES.

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

Biggest ever Sunburn Campus was hosted by Antaragni, IIT Kanpur in 2017 where Kshmr performed in his first ever college show.

In January 2018, Indian Institute of Science Education and Research, Bhopal hosted Sunburn featuring Ninasuerete and Get Massive as part of the institute's annual cultural fest Enthuzia, 2018.

Recently in March 2018, Government Engineering College Calicut also hosted sunburn with sax dj Ola Ras and Gaurav Mehta.On 15 December 2019, NIT Raipur also hosted sunburn campus on its annual sports fest "SAMAR".

In February 2020, Indian Institute Of Information Technology Gwalior hosted Sunburn featuring Olly Esse and AceAxe. In March 2020 Government Engineering College Palakkad hosting the Sunburn featuring Olly Esse. On March 14, 2020 Government Engineering College Trivandrum, Barton Hill hosting the Sunburn featuring Progressive Brothers.

Sunburn Goa 2014[]

The 8th edition took place in Vagator on 27 to 30 December 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 DJs. 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 20 November 2015 Sunburn Goa's international ticketing partner, Viagogo, announced that the festival has become one of the largest international music festivals in Asia,^[9] with people from more than 42 countries buying tickets on the viagogo platform. On 24 November 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 halfway around the world to get the same experience as Festival Tomorrowland. Sunburn Goa 2015 is expected to draw the largest crowds since its inception.^[10] 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 taking the stage.

Sunburn Pune 2016[]

The 10th anniversary celebration of Sunburn festival took place in Pune, Maharashtra. After much controversy of festival being moved from Goa and finding a new home in Pune, Sunburn finally took place from 28 December to 31 December at the Kesanand Hills, Pune. The festival was headlined by the likes of Trance Legend Armin Van Buerren, Progressive Duo Axwell & Ingrosso, Dimitri Vegas & Like Mike, Afrojack and finally a 90-minute midnight set by Kshmr.

Sunburn Pune 2017[]

11th edition of sunburn festival took place in oxford golf resort pune, Maharashtra lineup for its 11th edition was KSHMR, Dimitri vegas& Like mike, DJ snake, Martin garrix, Afrojack, Clean bandit. Martin garrix closed sunburn festival 2017.

Overview[]

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Sunburn Festival	2007	2008	2009	2010
Attendees	10	20	350	495
Artists	36	45	66	92
Local audience	15	35	45	60
National audience	5,500	25,000	38,000	93,215
International	3,000	6,500	32,000	42,075
Fan Base	3,000	6,500	32,000	50,000
Activities
Stalls	10	30	65	90
Flea Market	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes
Fire Jugglers		Yes
Volleyball court		Yes	Yes
Massage centre		Yes
Spa			Yes	No
Rock climbing		Yes	Yes	Yes
Mechanical bull			Yes
Digital photo zones			Yes
Moonwalker				Yes
Makeover lounge				No
Sunset lounge				Yes
Slippery football			No	Yes
Slippery volleyball				Yes
The Shacks				Yes
Experimental Stage				Yes
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Digital Impressions per 4 days
Peak Facebook page visit per day

Artists line-up[]

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Line Up In 2007	Line Up In 2008	Line Up In 2009	Line Up In 2010	Line Up In 2011	Line Up In 2012
Above and Beyond	GMS	Armin Van Buuren	Paul Van Dyk	Above and Beyond	Fedde le Grand
Carl Cox	John 00 Fleming & Digital Blonde	Roger Sanchez	Ferry Corsten	Pete Tong	Sander van Doorn
Axwell	Shapeshifters	Sander Van Doorn	Axwell	Gabriel & Dresden	Paul van Dyk
	Pearl		Aly & Fila	Skazi	Roger Sanchez
Pearl	Richard Durand	Nick Rafferty	Pearl	Jalebee Cartel
Midival Punditz	Roger Shah	John 00 Fleming	Sultan & Ned Sheppard		Simplicity
Sergio Flores	Midival Punditz	Gordon Edge	Richard Durand	Pearl	W&W
Super 8 & Tab	Norman Doray	Norman Doray		Jerome Isma-ae	Richard Durand
Pete Gooding	Jalebee Cartel	Sultan	Nadia Ali	John 00 Fleming	Norman Doray
Gordon Edge	Shiva Soundsystem	Jhonny Deep + Simon Sax	Ma Faiza		AN21
Jaytech	Ma Faiza	Baba Robji	GMS		James Zabiela
Tuhin Mehta	Kris Correya	Shy-o	John 00 Fleming	Liquid Soul
Jalebee Cartel	Simon Dunmore	Domino	Sanjay Dutta	Perfect Stranger	The Japanese Popstars
Anil Chawla	Sanjay Dutta	Pearl	Ritkam & Bansi	Laughing Buddha	Spartaque
Simon Dunmore	Tatva Kundalini	Inferno	Xerox & Illumination		Showtek
Sanay Dutta	Shovell	Ritesh Gonsalves	Pete Gooding	Lost Stories	Paul Thomas
Mayaadh Mahir
Arno Cost & Norman Doray	Order of the Essence	Vachan Chinnappa	Protoculture
Shaair n Func	Vachan Chinnappa	Jalebee Cartel	Vachan Chinnappa	Brute Force	Joof
James Grant	Ajit	Mmat	B.R.E.E.D		Filterheadz
Stephen J Kroos		Sashanti	Freeaatmah	Shaan	Jes (live)
Aldrin	Karan Third Eye	D Siren	Anil Chawla & Dale Anderson	Albin Myers
Nawed Khan	Nawed Khan	Greg Pidcock	Tuhin Mehta	Dirty Vegas
Karan Third Eye	Charlee	Ajit		KillerWatts (live)
Dj Ajit	Maarten Klein	Sanjay Dutta	Clement	Arnej
Clement	Reji	Ma Fiaza	Karan Third Eye	Pearl
Shetty	Kris Correya	Tuhin	V-Shall	Avalon
	Janux	Tatva	Whosane!	Ma Faiza (live)
	Shy-o	Dj Hiren	Janux	Sanjay Dutta
	Pereira	Jayant Luthrq	Inferno Mash	Anil Chawla
	Dj Siren	Voodoo XP	Baba Robijn	DJ Ajit
		Janux	Rohit Barker	Anish Sood
		Whosane	Lost Stories	Clement
		Rohit Barker	Phi Degrees	Marcelo Vasami
		James Harcourt	Bay Beat Collective	Jitter
		Nasha	Anish Sood	Kohra
		Vijay Chawla & Dominic Ras	Ajit	Sashanti (live)
		Bay Beat Collective		Rohit Barker
		Clement	Arjun Shark	Vinayak Bhai
		Nawed Khan	Talamasca
		Dj Dale	Lost Stories	Dj Prajwal (sunny)
		Designer Hippies	V-Vek Dewdani
		BoomBaba	Janux

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See also[]

Wikimedia Commons has media related to Sunburn Festival.

• List of electronic music festivals
• Music festival

References[]

External links[]

• official website
• Sunburn Noida 2012
• Sunburn on ZEE5