Depot:Rock Otočec

Contact

Rock Otočec

Novi trg 10, SI-8000 Novo mesto

http://www.rock-otocec.com/

info@rock-otocec.com

Phone386 (0) 7 337 9650, 386 (0) 41 271 403

Organised byRock Otočec d.o.o.

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Held at the Aerodrom near Novo mesto, Rock Otočec is the country's largest summer open air music festival. It combines rock with blues, world music and other genres. The festival lasts for three days in the end of June or the beginning of July. Novo mesto is located 70 kilometres from both the Slovene capital Ljubljana and the Croatian capital Zagreb. The festival area can accommodate up to 30,000 visitors. It is famous for its games in the mud and is thus claimed to be a kind of Slovene Woodstock.

Rock Otočec first occurred in 1976, the second one in 1983, and since 1997 it has become a regular annual event. About 1,500 artists from twenty countries have already performed at the festival. Apart from the almost comprehensive list of Slovene bands, some international highlights include Rollins Band, Living Color, the Fun Lovin' Criminals, Asian Dub Foundation, and many more.

External links

• website (in English, Slovenian, German and Italian)
• Rock Otočec on Wikipedija (in Slovenian)

Gallery

Elvis Jackson concert at Rock Otočec, 2013

One of the selected pictures in the photo competition Rock Otočec 2006

The mud puddle fun at the Rock Otočec festival, 2009

Billy Lunn's crowd surfing after the The Subways concert at the Rock Otočec 2011

Rock Otočec, Slovenia's largest summer open air music festival, is located in the idylic setting along the Krka River, combining rock'n'roll with the mud, water and air games, 2011

A premiere of Two Men With Bombs, an art action directed by Matjaž Berger and produced by Anton Podbevšek Theatre, within the Maribor, European Capital of Culture 2012 programme and the Rock Otočec festival, June 2012