New names for Sziget Festival and Line-Up of the World Music Stage revealed

Photo: Sándor Csudai

14. April 2016

 

Sziget Festival is a non-stop music and arts festival with hundreds of program offered every day for its 7 days. This time some new names have been added to the line-up such as Afrojack, Die Antwoord, Skunk Anansie, TroyBoi and many more. Sziget is held on a lovely green island in the middle of Budapest between 10-17 August. Advance round 1 tickets are available until 5th May.

 

Sziget aims to represent as many genres and art forms as possible. This is the place where contemporary circus and EDM are neighbors and where the to-do list of visitors is just endless. The list of program venues are expanding continuously as the programs themselves. You can find the map of program venues here: szigetfestival.com/info/map.

 

New names

Grammy Award winning Dutch DJ and producer Afrojack, will definitely make a great party at Sziget, as well as the South African rap-rave group of Die Antwoord. The Canadian-born, L.A. based duo of DVBBS will definitely bring their high-energy presence behind (and on top of) the deck at Sziget. Szitizens can celebrate the anniversary of the birth of Punk; 40th anniversary with Marky Ramone's Blitzkrieg, while Skunk Anansie will return to Sziget with a great live show. TroyBoi, one of South East London's most closely guarded secrets has recently emerged from the shadows and is set to take the music industry by storm, now coming to the Island of Freedom. Moreover ZEDD, Russian-German Grammy Award winning musician and DJ is also coming as well as Carnage.

 

The World Music Stage

Buika combines all manner of styles along with her emotionally charged lyrics and a broken sensuality in her voice. Her numerous awards and honors attest to that. It will be a great start to the program of the venue. A very much awaited act, Leningrad, will definitely spice up the hot August day. The Russian band plays ska with punk, combining their music also with Russian marches, dance and folk songs. Goran Bregovic and his Wedding and Funeral Band will bring superb energies as his music marries sounds of a gypsy brass band with traditional Bulgarian polyphonies. The great atmosphere and dancing is guaranteed. Rachid Taha is an Algerian singer based in France. His music is influenced by many different styles such as rock, electronic, punk and raï. From Hungary, Pannonia Allstars Ska Orchestra, will bring deep rooted traditional ska spiced up with a violin to add some Hungarian flavor to the music, that is fine tuned with reggae riddims and jazzy melodies. Moreover Szitizens can enjoy the 'power gypsy dance' of Baro Drom Orkestar, Balkan dances and elektro swing with Django Lassi, traditional Balkan, gypsy, Turkish music merged with swing and jazz by The Džambo Aguševi Orchestra, pop and Afro-American rhythms with Enzo Avitable or the energies of the brass band of Fanfare Ciocarlia or even the Afro-Caribbean and folkloric music of Colombia, with contemporary rhythms and cultural styles such as hip hop, house, techno, breakbeat brought by Systema Solar

 

Complete line-up in aplhabetical order:

 

ABU | Afrojack |Aurora | Bastille | Bloc Party | Boys Noize | Bring Me The Horizon | Bullet For My Valentine | Carnage | CHVRCHES | Crystal Castles | Datsik | David Guetta | Die Antwoord | Die Nerven | Dillon Francis | DJ Sliink | DVBBS | Dyro | Excision | Fatoni | FIDLAR | Gastarbeiter DJ Set | Hardwell | Isolation Berlin | JAIN | Jake Bugg | Jess Glynne | John Newman | K.I.Z | Kaiser Chiefs | Kodaline | Kovacs | M83 | Manu Chao La Ventura | Marky Ramone's Blitzkrieg | MØ | Molotov | Movits! | Muse | Naughty Boy | Nicky Romero | Noel Gallagher's High Flying Birds  | Oscar and the Wolf | Palace Winter | Parkway Drive | Parov Stelar | Rico & Sticks | Rihanna | Róisín Murphy | Serafyn | SIA | Sigur Rós | Skunk Anansie | Sum 41 | The Last Shadow Puppets | The Lumineers | The Neighbourhood | Tourist | Travis Scott | TroyBoi | Unkle (live) | Vinai | Wilkinson (live) | Years & Years | Zedd