History of the Estéreo Picnic Festival: Important and interesting facts about the Estéreo Picnic Festival | Entertainment

The countdown has started for the return Picnic Stereo Festival. It had been three years since the last face-to-face edition, so there was great expectation among those who bought tickets for 2020 edition, that because of the pandemic is not done, and who in recent months have bought their income.

EVENTS WITH HISTORY

The Estéreo Picnic Festival was attended by more than 437,000 peoplealmost equivalent to the population of Malta, the country European Union. In 2019, the Festival broke attendance records, 90,000 people They arrived at the most anticipated event of the year in Colombia. In 11 years FEP go from have 2,500 participantsin its first edition, became more than 90,000.

In 2022 FEP will feature the highest number of artists on stage in its history, more than 88 groups between March 25 and 27. In the first edition Stereo Picnic in 2010 only eight groups performed, while in 2014 the Festival lasted three days for the first time.

11 Festival editions have been put together 410 groups from all over the world. Estéreo Picnic has brought together 241 international bands throughout its history, while 169 national groups have set foot on different stages. FEP.

In addition, 75 artists from United States of America have participated in festivals, including The Killers and The Strokes, while 60 Latin American groups have passed through the Festival, including from Mexico, Ecuador, Venezuela, Peru, Argentina.

As well, 32 pools countries such as Russia, Germany, France, Spain, Sweden, among others, have included European quotas in the EFF scenario. From England have participated 53 bandsmostly from English.

Therefore, Stereo Picnic make more than 10,000 direct jobs between production, logistics, artistic, marketing, and other collaborators. This edition will go down in history as the most expensive edition of the FEP, around six million dollars has been invested in the artist.

Torrential rain fell more than once during the festival days, but the title of the most epic rain came in 2016, while 2018 was another edition that said goodbye with rain to remember. It was so logistically complicated that Manager Gorillaz, a friend of Radiohead’s Manager who showed up two weeks after the Festival at the same venue, warned them not to play there. Radiohead performs on Bolivia Simon Metropolitan Park.

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