What a crazy idea! This was exactly the reaction that the director of the festival, Kamil Rudolf, got when he came up with the idea of a unique concept. He had a vision of presenting people with a giant electronic event that is accessible to everyone and instead of paying an entrance fee, visitors would pay for a reusable cup and. In 2013, a giant heart was introduced for the first time, which became a symbol not only of the first year of the BEATS FOR LOVE festival, but the festival remained with its updated version up until today!
Over the years, the festival has become more and more popular – not only because of the ticket price, the number of stages and the unique scenery of Dolni Vitkovice, but also because of the unique approach to visitors and its charitable overlap. That is why Beats for Charity was created. It has become an integral part of this magnificent project, which not only brings the best artists from all over the world to Ostrava every year, but also helps people in need from the Moravian-Silesian region through their charitable activities.
If you are also interested in the history of this annual festival of electronic dance music, you can take a look of its development from the very beginning to the present day down below.
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Nomination in the Best Major Festival category
2023
The last edition of the festival with a single-digit number attracted a huge number of dancing visitors. The area of Dolní Vítkovice hosted legends and stars of the dance scene from all over the world dominated by names such as Tiësto, Hardwell and Deadmau5. More than 480 artists performed on 18 stages over the course of 4 days and more than 150,000 dance music fans visited the festival.
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2022
After a three-year break due to the coronavirus, the festival is returning to the European scene, which it will conquer the most in its history. Festival brought the best DJ on the planet, Armin van Buuren, and more than 400 names of the international dance community to the Dolní Vítkovice area, who made dance more than 160,000 visitors on 12 stages during the 4 festival days.
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2021 – 3RD LIMITED EDITION
The third and last limited edition of 2021 took place in September with a capacity for 7,000 visitors. Over 40 artists performed on 2 stages over 2 days.
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2021 – 2ND LIMITED EDITION
2021 – 1ST LIMITED EDITION
The epidemic crisis is still ongoing. During 3 days, 7 foreign and 60 local DJs performed on 2 industrial stages. Despite the general restrictions, 15,000 visitors enjoyed the unique atmosphere of the first limited edition in 2021.
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2020
The coronavirus came to the world, which significantly limited all cultural events. Despite the critical situation in the Moravian-Silesian region, a smaller version was organized for 1000 people in two small areas with one stage in each area, and within 4 days the number of visitors reached 7000. This limited version was also sold out!
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2019
Historically, the most artists (over 400) on 14 stages and more than 150 000 visitors in 4 days, pushed the 7th year to the next level again! For the first time in the history of the festival, one of the headliners performed right at the beginning of the festival at 4:00 p.m. with a huge crowd hyping him. The festival was once again SOLD OUT!
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2018
In 2018, the LOVE stage celebrates its second "birthday" and the line up is packed again! 4 days, 13 stages and more than 50 000 visitors enjoyed the festival and for the second time the festival was SOLD OUT!
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2017
The news of this year was the huge, 50x26 meter Love stage, where Fatboy Slim, the legend of the dance music, performed at. He was the biggest name in the history of the festival to ever perform. The twice as big festival area has welcomed over 42,000 unique dancers over 4 days on 14 stages!
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2016
In 2016, the line-up increased so much we had to change the format of our posters. The news of that year was the giant after-party in Trojhalí Karolina, which we still keep remembering. And the most important information from this year was the fact that the festival was "SOLD OUT!" for the first time in its history. Total attendance in 3 days stopped at 42,000!
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2015
The third year has moved to the next level! The number of stages increased to 11 and more than 40 000 unique visitors visited the Dolni Vitkovice area who enjoyed electronic music for 4 days, and the festival map and team invitation saw the light of day for the first time.
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2014
The story with the cup continues! Even during the second year of the festival we were able to maintain the entrance fee for the price of the reusable cup, this time for 100 CZK. Within 3 days 35 000 unique visitors enjoyed the festival with 8 multi genre stages around them.
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2013
The first year of the festival. No one even knew that it would explode into something so spectacular! The surprise was the entrance fee, just the purchase of a reusable cup for 50 CZK, and also the huge number of visitors and fans of electronic dance music. Within 3 days 25 000 unique visitors enjoyed the festival with 5 multi genre stages around them.