Lowlands (festival)

Lowlands
The characteristic chimneys of Lowlands 2019 in the ArmadiLLow area, accessible 24 hours a day during the festival weekend.
DatesThird weekend of August
Location(s)Spijk en Bremerberg, Biddinghuizen, Netherlands
Coordinates52°25′58″N 5°45′55″E / 52.43278°N 5.76528°E / 52.43278; 5.76528
Years active1993–present
FoundersMojo Concerts, Loc7000
Attendance~55,000
WebsiteOfficial website

A Campingflight to Lowlands Paradise (commonly called Lowlands or Lowlands Festival), is an annual three-day music and performing arts festival, held in the Netherlands. The festival is held 68 kilometres (42 mi) east of Amsterdam in Biddinghuizen, at Spijk en Bremerberg, which is adjacent to Walibi Holland.

Although the main focus is on music - rock, pop, dance, hip hop and alternative - Lowlands also offers indoor and outdoor cinema, (street) theatre, cabaret and stand-up, ballet, literature and comic strips.

In recent years, the festival is attended by around 55,000 visitors, and features over 200 acts on more than ten stages every year which are named according to the NATO phonetic alphabet apart from the Heineken stage (named after the beer brewer Heineken, the main sponsor of the festival since 2015). The majority of stages are inside large tents to protect spectators against inclement weather, with the largest being approximately the size of a regulation football pitch.