“It’s important to be a role model”: Øya gears up for 20th year
Øya Festival founder Claes Olsen talks fees, gender, sustainability and Superstruct ahead of next week's 20th-anniversary event
News By | 29 July 2019
Norway’s Øya Festival will next week mark its 20th anniversary with the biggest event to date, according to festival founder Claes Olsen.
Øya Festival (Øyafestivalen), held since 2014 in Tøyen Park, Oslo, has sold out every year since 2004, when it was headlined by the Streets and Air and attracted 38,000 visitors. For 2019’s event, on 6–10 August, the Øya team have boosted capacity to 20,000 per day at the festival site – with more than 100,000 visitors expected…
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