roskilde festival is one of europe's largest and longest-running outdoor music festivals, held annually at a dedicated festival site outside the danish city it takes its name from. the event runs across eight days and draws crowds in the tens of thousands, with a campsite and extensive infrastructure that makes it a full residential festival experience. the program spans a wide range of genres and stages, and the festival is run as a non-profit, with surplus channelled into humanitarian and cultural causes.
the festival has been running since 1971 and has grown into a flagship event on the northern european festival calendar. programming covers everything from rock and hip-hop to electronic music, with dedicated electronic and dance stages that have historically included techno, house, and psy-adjacent programming among the broader bill.