Farewell to Melt - This festivals will not exist any more
An Era Comes to an End: The Melt Festival at the Ferropolis Grounds in Graefenhainichen will take place from July 11 to 13 for the last time. The organizers announced the end of the festival in May of this year.
"Due to various factors, we unfortunately cannot continue the festival", the statement read. "We found our home in Ferropolis in 1999 and have danced, celebrated, and experienced unforgettable moments there for 25 years." The first Melt Festival took place in 1997 at the Bernsteinsee in Velten, Brandenburg. The following year, the airfield Lärz in Mecklenburg-Vorpommern served as the venue.
Will there be a new alternative?
Since 1999, Melt has been a permanent fixture in Ferropolis. The "City of Iron" is located near Graefenhainichen in Saxony-Anhalt. An exception was the year 2003. Due to a lack of sponsor engagement and poor weather conditions, the festival had to be canceled. In 2020 and 2021, it was canceled due to the Corona pandemic. After the farewell in 2024, the organizers are giving fans hope that there might be a possible alternative. "Although the Melt Festival is coming to an end, the team is already working on new concepts", the statement explained. "However, these will not take place under the name Melt and will not be held in Ferropolis."
Other festivals are also bidding farewell
The Melt is not the only festival saying goodbye to its visitors or already having done so. The Inselleuchten Marienwerder will celebrate its finale from July 12 to 14 with its 20th edition. "With the jubilee, the era of this special festival for adults comes to an end", the website states. "Last chance to experience the riotous festival one more time and be enchanted."
The Progressive-Rock- and Metal-Festival Night of the Prog (July 19-21) will also bid farewell. "The final Night of the Prog-Festival will take place at the Loreley in July 2024. With this, the largest Prog-Festival of our time and an entire era comes to an end", the website states, citing economic factors and logistical challenges as reasons for the cancellation.
The Meeresrausch Festival on Usedom Island at the Baltic Sea invited visitors from June 13 to 16. The organizers had to inform attendees in advance: After twelve years, it was the last festival to offer five stages and a beach backdrop.
With its ninth and final edition, the blacksheep Festival in the Bonfelder Schlosspark said its farewell from June 20 to 22. The festival featured three stages and 18 international acts. According to the "Rhein-Neckar-Zeitung", "rising fees and other costs, as well as a sluggish ticket sales" were the reasons for the cancellation.
The Stuttgart HipHop Open was scheduled to bid farewell from August 9 to 10, 2024. "For the second and unfortunately definitive time in the history of the festival, we must bid farewell", the Instagram post read. There were too few tickets sold, it was explained in the statement, along with "constantly rising infrastructure and artist fees, smaller sponsor pots, and little support". A few days ago, it was announced that the final edition "despite all efforts" would not take place.
The first HipHop Open took place on July 15, 2000, at the Pragsattel in Stuttgart. The festival welcomed 13,000 HipHop fans for the last time on July 18, 2023, at the Cannstatter Wasen in Stuttgart. Then, in 2023, the festival returned after an eight-year break.
- The organizers of the Melt Festival in Brandenburg's Bernsteinsee decided to move the event to the Lärz airfield in Mecklenburg-Vorpommern the following year, following the success of the inaugural event in 1997.
- Despite the cancellation of the Melt Festival in 2003 due to a lack of sponsor engagement and unfavorable weather conditions, the festival found a permanent home in Ferropolis, Saxony-Anhalt, starting from 1999.
- According to a statement, the Iron City of Ferropolis has been the home of Melt for 25 years, offering attendees unforgettable moments of dancing and celebrating.
- The organizers of the Melt Festival announced that the event would bid farewell in 2024, citing various factors as reasons for the end of the music event.
- Similar to the Melt Festival, the Inselleuchten Marienwerder and Meeresrausch Festivals are saying goodbye to their visitors due to economic factors and logistical challenges.
- The Stuttgart HipHop Open, which celebrated its first edition in 2000, will bid farewell to its fans in 2024, citing rising fees, ticket sales, and infrastructure costs as reasons for its cancellation.
