The EXIT festival starts on the second week of every July. The genres of music that feature here are rock, dance, electronica, techno, hip hop, punk and progressive. This live music fun, which is widely known by the name State of EXIT festival, takes place at Petrovaradin Fortress in Serbia, a picturesque setting that makes people look back into the 18th century when the fortress was built.
The Novi Sad EXIT festival started from a humble political beginning and has maintained a high stature within a short time. Sometimes the festival encountered occasional problems with financing its mission of encouraging Serbian youths to enter into the world of entertainment so as to address the pertinent social problems that they face on a daily basis.
The idea was the brainchild of three university students who hailed from Serbia, Novi Sad. The EXIT festival kicked of performances as a Students Union initiative. Several NGOs and many commercial companies have for some time maintained involvement in the activities of the State of EXIT. This festival was in the limelight all over Europe when it was chosen the Best European Festival during the 2007 UK Festival Awards.
Summer gets better for those who choose to attend this exciting exit festival. The people who voted for a whole month so as to choose one festival from a group of ten were really right in seeing something positive about the Novi Sad EXIT Festival that they did not see in other festivals.
Novi Sad EXIT Festival in Serbia
From the look of things, there are even more surprises in the coming summer. Many performing groups and bands always compete for slots at the festival. The festival has grown from the time when it had a political face to today when it only associates mainly with NGOs and commercial entities. It began off with a strong tinge of anti-Milosevic protests before fear of incarceration threw a dark veil over these strong sentiments. It therefore changed into a forum through the
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