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“Rock am Ring” and “Rock im Park” again after the Corona break
Music fans cheer on the grounds of the last festival “Rock am Ring” 2019 in the Eifel. Photo: Thomas Frey/dpa
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The pandemic has also put an end to open-air festivals. But in June, tens of thousands of fans should finally be able to experience booming bass and melodious sounds in the Eifel and in Nuremberg again.
After a two-year Corona break, the legendary music spectacle “Rock am Ring” in the Eifel and its Nuremberg sister festival “Rock im Park” are to take place again.
According to the organizers, a total of more than 140,000 tickets for both festivals from June 3rd to 5th were sold until shortly before Christmas 2021. The new organizer company Dreamhaus did not want to provide more current figures for the time being.
Her spokeswoman Claudia Schulte told the German Press Agency that several tens of thousands of viewers in the Eifel and in Nuremberg seemed realistic from today’s perspective given the planned relaxation of the corona measures. For example, the major Rhineland-Palatinate Day event has already been officially announced from May 20th to 22nd in Mainz.
According to Schulte, around 80 percent of the owners of tickets for the “Rock am Ring” and “Rock im Park” festivals in 2020 and 2021, which were canceled due to corona, exchanged tickets for the new editions this year – instead of claiming their money back.
Headliners for the twin festival on the first weekend of June 2022 are Green Day, Muse and Volbeat. Despite the change of organizer, the traditional concept with around 80 bands each on three stages at the Nürburgring and on the Nuremberg Zeppelinfeld will be continued, said Schulte.
“But there is also a bit of fresh wind,” she added – for example with new websites and apps. A mini-series with videos from fans on YouTube and the websites of both festivals is intended to whet the appetite for the long-awaited return of the music spectacle.
The young Samira, for example, speaks in a video for “Rock am Ring” of “bad mood” and “deep sadness” because of the canceled festival editions 2020 and 2021 due to the corona. That’s why she opened a small sewing studio for rocker cowls in her kitchen. Only when she runs again at the music spectacle on the Nürburgring can she really leave the pandemic behind.
“Rock am Ring” first took place in 1985 and is considered one of the most traditional rock festivals in Germany. In 1997, the simultaneous sister spectacle “Rock im Park” in Nuremberg was added.