Sziget booker Dan Panaitescu passes

Dan Panaitescu, head of international booking at Sziget festival promoter Sziget Cultural Management, has been killed in a car crash.

Panaitescu, a longtime ILMC member who also served as chief booker for Sziget sister events Volt, Balaton Sound and Strand Festival, had been with Sziget (established in 1993) from the outset, and was instrumental in its transformation from a small, regional Hungarian event to a festival widely considered among Europe’s best.

In a statement, Sziget paid tribute to an “acknowledged professional, a great colleague, our friend and a caring father to two children” and said its team were “speechless” at the news. “Dan was the one who booked all those great artists to all of our festivals,” it wrote, adding that it “can thank him…

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