In samenwerking met YOUROPE en Eurosonic Noorderslag worden ook dit jaar organisatoren van velen festivals in de spotlight gezet met de European Festival Awards 2013.
In totaal hebben er 620.000 Europese festivalgangers gestemd op hun favoriete festival. Ook een speciale EFA-jury, bestaande uit journalisten, booking agents en festival organisatoren, heeft haar oordeel kunnen vellen over de genomineerde festivals en artiesten dit jaar. De jury's keuze bepaald voor 25% de uitslag.
Net als vorig jaar zijn er in totaal dertien verschillende categorieën waarvan sommige worden gesponsored door externe partijen als YOUROPE, Eurosonic Noorderslag, YES Groep, ICM&SS, GO Group, IVS en Eventbrite.
Best Major Festival in association with Planet Festival: Tomorrowland (Belgium)
Best Medium-Sized Festival: Heineken Balaton Sound (Hungary)
Best Small Festival: Tauron New Music Festival (Poland)
Headliner Of The Year: Foo Fighters (USA)
Newcomer Of The Year In Association With Eurosonic Noorderslag: Of Monsters And Men (Iceland)
Best European Festival Line-Up In Association With Id&C: Rock Am Ring/ Rock Im Park (Germany)
Best Indoor Festival: Sensation (Netherlands)
Festival Anthem Of The Year: Lykke Li - 'I Follow Rivers' (Sweden)
Best New Festival: Electro Magnetic (Germany)
The Lifetime Achievement Award In Association With Ivs And IQ Magazine: Herman Schueremans (Live Nation Belgium)
Promoter Of The Year In Association With Audience Magazine: Pukkelpop (Belgium)
Artists' Favourite Festival: Roskilde (Denmark)
Green Operations Award In Association With Go Group And Yourope: We Love Green (France)
Hoewel alle stemmen al geteld zijn worden de finalisten nog even in spanning gehouden. Op 15 januari 2014 zal namelijk een speciale ceremonie plaatsvinden in De Oosterpoort in Groningen tijdens Eurosonic Noorderslag. Onder de genomineerden bevinden zich ook enkele dancefestivals en danceartiesten. Klik op de categorieën om te kijken wie de genomineerden zijn.
In association with the YES Group and ICM&SS
Opener Festival (Poland) - Commended for good practice at the festival in relation to safety.
Paleo Festival (Switzerland) - For their year on year development of innovative activities to support health and safety onsite, including the electronic tracking of security and changes made to parts of the festival to make it safer relating to ingress and staging.
Wacken Festival (Germany) - Commended for bringing in outside agencies to audit all of their health and safety activities.
B.my.Lake (Hungary)
Burning Eagle Festival (Germany)
First We Take Berlin Festival (Germany)
Groove Music Festival (Ireland)
Last Summer Dance (Luxembourg)
Metal Hammer Festival (Germany)
Snowboxx (Andorra)
Solar Ibiza (Spain)
WeitjeRock (Netherlands)
Your'in (Belgium)
Bastille - Pompeii
Blur - Song 2
Daft Punk - Get Lucky
Die Toten Hosen - Tage wie dieser
Disclosure - White Noise
Imagine Dragons - Radioactive
Macklemore & Ryan Lewis - Thrift Shop
Major Lazer - Watch Out For This (Bumaye)
The Lumineers - Ho Hey
The National - Demons
Blues in Hell (Norway)
Camden Crawl Dublin 2013 (Ireland)
Doomsday Festival (Belgium)
Eurosonic Noorderslag (Netherlands)
First We Take Berlin Festival (Germany)
I Love Techno (Belgium)
MAYDAY (Germany)
Metal Hammer Festival (Germany)
Rolling Stone Weekender (Germany)
Waves Vienna (Austria)
In association with the GO Group
Bestival (UK) Fusion (Germany)
Rock For People (Czech Republic)
Shambala festival (UK)
Tollwood Festival (Germany)
Way Out West (Sweden)
Berlin Festival (Germany)
Glastonbury (UK)
Hurricane / Southside (Germany)
Latitude (UK) Positivus (Latvia)
Primavera Sound (Spain)
Rock am Ring/Rock im Park (Germany)
Rock Werchter (Belgium)
Roskilde (Denmark)
Sziget (Hungary)
In association with Eurosonic Noorderslag
Bastille
C2C
Chvrches
Disclosure
HAIM
Imagine Dragons
Jake Bugg
Metz
Skip & Die
Woodkid
Glastonbury (UK)
Lowlands (Netherlands)
Paleo Festival (Switzerland)
Park Live Moscow (Russia)
Primavera (Spain)
Pukkelpop (Belgium)
Rock Werchter (Belgium)
Roskilde (Denmark)
Sziget (Hungary)
Woodstock (Poland)
Arctic Monkeys
Atoms for Peace
Björk Blur
DieToten Hosen
Editors
Nick & The Bad Seeds
Nine Inch Nails
Queens of the Stone Age
The xx
Alter Art (Poland)
FKP Scorpio (Germany)
Live Nation Europe
Primavera Sound (Spain)
Marek Lieberberg Konzertagenteur (Germany)
In association with IVS
8 Tauron Festiwal Nowa Muzyka (Poland)
Blues in Hell (Norway)
Camden Crawl Dublin 2013 (Ireland)
Dimensions Festival (Croatia)
Feest in het Park (Belgium)
First We Take Berlin Festival (Germany)
FUSION Festival (Romania)
Indiependence (Ireland)
Mini-Rock-Festival (Germany)
The Garden Festival (Croatia)
In association with Eventbrite
Balaton Sound (Hungary)
Berlin Festival (Germany)
Deichbrand Festival (Germany)
Electric Castle Festival (Romania)
I Love Techno (Belgium)
Kubana (Russia)
Lokerse Feesten festival (Belgium)
Melt! Festival (Germany)
Positivus Festival (Latvia)
VOLT Festival (Hungary)
Dour Festival (Belgium)
EXIT Festival (Serbia)
Hurricane/Southside (Germany)
Open'er Festival (Poland)
Pukkelpop (Blegium)
Rock Werchter (Belgium)
Sziget (Hungary)
Tomorrowland (Belgium)
Wacken Open Air (Germany)
Woodstock Festival (Poland)