Last night the Annual European Festival Awards took place at Groningen’s De Oosterport in The Netherlands.
More than 360 festivals from 34 different countries applied to take part in this year’s European Festival Awards, and over 620,000 festival fans all over the world voted.
Exit Festival which takes place at the Petrovaradin Fortress in Novi Sad, Serbia has been nominated for the award every year since the The European Festival Awards were started back in 2010 and finally took home the prize for the first time last night!
EXIT ‘R:Evolution’ 2013 was their most successful festival to date. It saw visitor numbers rise to 200,000 and an additional 30,000 attended CeeLo Green’s concert, which was a free event in June at Novi Sad’s Liberty Square, celebrating EXIT’s birthday.
Next years festival, the Fifteenth edition will be named EXIT ADVENTURE and held from July 10 to 14, 2014. For more information and tickets check out their website here.
The full list of winners on the night can be seen below:
YES Group H&S Innovation Award In association with the YES Group and ICM&SS
Paleo Festival (CH)
Best New Festival
B.my.Lake (HU)
Festival Anthem of the Year
Daft Punk – Get Lucky
Best Indoor Festival
Metal Hammer Paradise (DE)
The Green Operations Award In association with the GO Group
Way Out West (SE)
Best European Festival Line-Up in association with Company NA
Berlin Festival (DE)
Newcomer of the Year In association with Eurosonic Noorderslag
Imagine Dragons
Artist’s Favourite European Festival
Lowlands (NL)
Headliner of the Year
Arctic Monkeys
Promoter Of The Year
FKP Scorpio (DE)
Best Small Festival
FUSION Festival (RO)
Best Medium-Sized Festival In association with Eventbrite
Melt! Festival (DE)
Best Major Festival in association with Intelligent Venue Solutions
EXIT Festival (RS)
Lifetime Achievement Award
Marek Lieberberg (DE)
For more information on The European Festival Awards click here.