June 28 – July 1, 2023
Booking
| Company: | Alter Art Festival |
| Contact: | Mikolaj Ziolkowski |
| E-mail: | kontakt@alterart.pl |
| Phone: | 00 48 22 646 46 60 |
| Fax: | 00 48 22 848 6115 |
| Website: | www.opener.pl |
Details |
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| Country: | Poland |
| City: | Gdynia |
| Established: | 2002 |
| Festival type: | Open air |
| Camping: | Yes |
| Site: | Gdynia-Kosakowo Airport |
| Capacity: | 90,000 in 4 days |
| Stages: | 7: Open’er Stage Tent Stage Alter Stage Beat Stage + Fashion Stage + The Station Stage + ALTERKINO |
Description:
Open’er Festival is the biggest and most diverse festival in Poland. Every year its line-up is filled with the most important international acts representing various music genres: hip hop, rock, pop, electronica and many more. The festival also offers many activities related to other fields of art – theatre plays, films, fashion shows, meetings with writers and modern art exhibitions.
Over the past 18 years many huge music stars performed at Open’er including Radiohead, Foo Fighters, Prince, Depeche Mode, Rihanna, Bruno Mars, Coldplay, Travis Scott, Lana Del Rey, Lorde, Arctic Monkeys, Florence + the Machine, Gorillaz, Red Hot Chili Peppers, Kendrick Lamar, Jay-Z, Kylie Minogue and many more. In 2018, the festival reached its peak attendance of 140,000 people.
Musical directions:
Indie, Alternative, Hip Hop, Rock, Pop, Electronica, World, Ambient, Experimental, Contemporary
Program references:
2018
Arctic Monkeys, Depeche Mode, Gorillaz, Bruno Mars, Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds, Migos, Noel Gallagher’s High Flying Birds, Fleet Foxes, Chvrches, Massive Attack, MØ, David Byrne, Young Thug, Taconafide, Kaleo, Kali Uchis, Vince Staples, Sigrid, La Femme, Post Malone, Dawid Podsiadło, Glass Animals, Years & Years, Odesza, Yung Lean, Bomba Estereo and many more
2017
Radiohead, Foo Fighters, The Weeknd, The xx, Lorde, James Blake, Royal Blood, G-Eazy, The Kills, M.I.A, Mac Miller, Moderat, Prophets of Rage, George Ezra, Taco Hemingway and many more …
2016
Florence + the Machine, Red Hot Chili Peppers, LCD Soundsystem, Sigur Rós, Pharrell Williams, Kygo, Bastille, Caribou, Foals, M83, PJ Harvey, Tame Impala, Wiz Khalifa and many more …
2015
The festival lasted from 1st till 4th July and was headlined by: Drake, The Libertines, Mumford & Sons and Kasabian. These were the first concerts ever in Poland for the two first artists. Modest Mouse, D’Angelo and Alabama Shakes have also scored their debut in Gdynia. Traditionally the local music scene has provided a strong representation.
2014
From legends Pearl Jam and recently reunited Faith No More, throughout the highlights of recent years: The Black Keys or Jack White, to bands still writing their musical history: Haim, Bastille, Banks or Royal Blood. As The Black Keys’ Dan Auerbach quipped from stage during their first Polish set: “a quarter of the size of Glastonbury, but ten times the energy.”
2013 was the year of „Kings and Queens”. It’s the audience that made Queens Of The Stone Age frontman Josh Homme drop the security and party with the fans backstage. Kings of Leon played for 60,000 fans, including Rihanna and her crew, who spent the entire concert dancing in the pit. The Open’er stages also included the magnetic Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds, Arctic Monkeys, The National and Tame Impala.
In 2012, the Main Stage featured what could have been the most eclectic line-up in the Open’er history: penderecki//greenwood, The Kills, Björk, New Order, Bon Iver, Justice.
