- Peace & Love
infobox music festival
music_festival_name = Peace & Love
location = Borlänge,Sweden
dates = 3 days, in June/July(6 days including theme days)
founders = Föreningen Peace & Love
years_active = 1999 – present
genre =Rock music , Pop, Hip Hop, Metal,World music ,Swedish music
website = [http://www.peaceandlove.nu/ www.peaceandlove.nu]Peace & Love is one of the biggest festivals in Sweden and the only one with an outspoken message of Solidarity, Diversity and Understanding, which runs through the whole event. It started in 1999 and is located in
Borlänge ,Sweden .The Concept
The concept of Peace & Love is to spread the message of Diversity, Solidarity and Understanding. It’s about crossing borders and bringing differing cultures from near and afar together and trying to get people to change their attitudes towards themselves and others.
The Peace & Love festival is still one of Scandinavians fastest growing festivals. In 2006 there were 15,000 visitors per day, with over 37,000 people attending in total. 2007 will be the 9th year for The Peace & Love festival. The 10th Peace & Love festival was in 2008 and had a record of 25000 visitors, which made them the second biggest festival in Sweden.
The theme
Each year, Peace & Love focus on a subject that Peace & Love want their visitors to reflect about. At theme days prior to the festival the visitors can attend debates and lectures and participate in workshops and discussions regarding the theme.
Past years theme2004 - Freedom of Speech 2005 - Environment2006 - Democracy 2007 - Revolution 2008 - Wake Up!
Artists
During the years foreign artist such as
Patti Smith ,New York Dolls ,Ed Harcourt ,Vive la Fête ,Hanoi Rocks ,Motörhead ,Cut Copy , andKhonnor have entertained the crowd as well as big Swedish acts such as:The Cardigans ,Thåström ,Håkan Hellström ,The Sounds ,Mando Diao ,Lars Winnerbäck ,Ulf Lundell ,The Hives ,Looptroop ,The Hellacopters andSilverbullit among many others.The band that has played most times at the Peace & Love festival are
Sugarplum Fairy , a rock band fromBorlänge whose two singers Carl and Victor are younger brothers of Gustaf Norén from the more known bandMando Diao , also a rock band from Borlänge.Sugarplum Fairy has played every year since 2001.The 2008's version of Peace & Love featured music legends
Sex Pistols and alsoManu Chao . Other appearing acts includedJason Mraz ,W.A.S.P and Metal legendsIn Flames .External links
* [http://www.peaceandlove.nu Peace & Love homepage]
* [http://www.myspace.com/peaceandlovefestival Peace & Love at MySpace]
* [http://www.last.fm/event/123743 Peace & Love at Last.fm]
* [http://festivalinfo.net/?page=gallery&gid=1461 Photos from Peace & Love 2007]
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