Weeze (dpa / lnw) – The sold-out “Parookaville” festival has started on the Lower Rhine. Up to and including Sunday, 75,000 people are expected in Weeze on the German-Dutch border every day. A total of 225,000 tickets were sold. 300 DJs and musicians from the spectrum of electronic music perform on ten stages.
Festival visitors can look forward to international acts such as US DJ Steve Aoki or German DJs Felix Jaehn and Scooter, as a spokeswoman said. Seven hours of the festival program will be streamed live on TikTok and YouTube per day.
A small town including a post office, “town hall” and church was built especially for the festival. Traditionally, “Parookaville” also gets married: before it got loud on the main stage, Alina (28) and Iwo (30) said “yes” in the church on Friday – married by a registrar.
Groom Iwo reported to the dpa that he only found out about the raffle for the festival wedding two hours before the deadline. They actually hadn’t planned to get married this year. The couple met at the festival. The two are already the seventh bridal couple to marry on the “Parookaville”.
The organizer denied rumors that it could be the last “Parookaville” festival at the former military airport. The reason was that the Düsseldorf armaments group Rheinmetall is planning a factory in Weeze.
According to organizer Bernd Dicks, the festival can continue to take place on the site. According to Dicks, only a new parking area for day visitors had to be found. The mayor of Weeze, Georg Koenen (independent) also confirmed that the festival could remain on the site.
The “Parookaville” takes place live in Weeze for the seventh time. In 2020 it remained without an audience and was streamed because of the corona pandemic. In 2021 it had failed completely. This year the festival ends on Sunday (July 23) with Timmy Trumpet on the main stage.
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2023-07-21 14:17:00
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