Festival in Austria: Here you will find quirky music

Discover fantastic music festivals in Austria. There's something for everyone, whether you're into international rock or classical music.

Festival in Austria: Here you will find whimsical music is written by Jacob Gowland Jørgensen.

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Modern music in Austria

Denmark is a festival country, but if you love the festival atmosphere, you can easily find it elsewhere. Here is the editorial board's bid for a string of whimsical and festive festivals in the Alpine country Austria.

Sunsplash is a modern music festival located in a super cozy area outside Vienna. the festival has been visited by Bob Marley's son Ziggy Marley and a string of other innovative musicians.

If there is to be a race, then FM4 is another big festival held at the Salzburgring race track. Here, big bands like Oasis, Weezer and Franz Ferdinand have played up to several times. A similar festival in Austria goes by the apt name Nuke and has previously been held at a disused nuclear power plant…

Roskilde Festival in Austria

Austria's response to Roskilde Festival is stated Novarock. The festival has visitors from home and abroad, and you have previously been able to experience great bands such as The Smashing Pumpkins, Slayer and Pearl Jam.

Danube Island Festival in Vienna is a giant folk festival with free admission. The festival is held on a narrow island in the middle of the Danube. In three days, there are up to three million music fans who experience Austrian and international stars on over 30 different stages.

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So there are plenty of opportunities to go to a music and atmospheric festival in Austria.

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Classical festival in Austria

Classical music is strong in Austria, and you can therefore find some absolute top festivals in each area. At the opera festival Opernfestspiele St. Margarethen forms wild rock formations every year an impressive backdrop for sumptuous opera performances on Europe's largest natural stage.

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At the Schubertiade festival, they play not surprisingly Schubert music for the big gold medal. If you need a different perspective on things, you can safely go to the cultural festival Walserherbst, which proclaims that they have the steepest festival in the world. Here, art, literature and song are on the program in a small mountain village close to Switzerland and Liechtenstein.

No matter what music you are into, you can find some different and magnificent music experiences in Austria.

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Good trip and and good festival in Austria.

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Jacob Jørgensen, editor

Jacob is a cheerful travel geek who has traveled in more than 100 countries from Rwanda and Romania to Samoa and Samsø.

Jacob is a member of De Berejstes Klub, where he has been a board member for five years, and he has extensive experience in the world of travel as a lecturer, magazine editor, adviser, writer and photographer. And, of course, most importantly: As a traveller. Jacob enjoys both traditional travel such as a car holiday to Norway, a cruise in the Caribbean and a city break in Vilnius, and more out-of-the-box trips such as a solo trip to the highlands of Ethiopia, a road trip to unknown national parks in Argentina and a friend trip to Iran.

Jacob is a country expert in Argentina, where he has been 10 times so far. He has spent almost a year in total traveling through the many diverse provinces, from the penguin land in the south to deserts, mountains and waterfalls in the north, and has also lived in Buenos Aires for a few months. In addition, he has special travel knowledge of such diverse places as East Africa, Malta and the countries around Argentina.

In addition to travelling, Jacob is an honorable badminton player, Malbec fan and always up for a board game. Jacob has also had a career in the communications industry for a number of years, most recently with the title of Communication Lead in one of Denmark's largest companies, and has also worked for several years with the Danish and international meeting industry as a consultant, e.g. for VisitDenmark and Meeting Professionals International (MPI). Today, Jacob is also a senior lecturer at CBS.