During the first edition in 2005, 3,500 visitors attended the event, in 2007 the festival attracted 16,000 visitors and in 2011 more than 24,000 visitors entered the gates of Castlefest. In August 2015 the festival attracted a record number of 35,000 visitors.[2] At the 14th edition in 2018, more than 40,000 people attended the festival.[3] Because of the COVID-19 pandemic in the Netherlands, the 2020 and 2021 editions were cancelled.[4][5] The 2020 edition was replaced by a three-day online event with music and guests, and the regional television station TV West aired a programme looking back at the 2019 edition.[4]
Castlefest is held on the first weekend of August in the gardens of Castle Keukenhof in Lisse, the Netherlands.[7] It takes part during three days on Friday, Saturday and Sunday with an opening concert on Thursday (since 2011). There are several folk and neo-medieval bands performing each year at the festival. In addition to music, there are workshops, stands with medieval food and drinks, medieval dancing and writers of fantasy literature present.[4] The festival is based on the Celtic feast of Lughnasadh and Saturday night is the Pagan Night (most notable for the wicker burning each year).
^Muste, Romy (29 June 2010). "Terug naar de vredige Middeleeuwen". de Volkskrant (in Dutch). Retrieved 3 January 2012.
^. Leidsch Dagblad (in Dutch). 3 August 2015. Archived from the original on 1 November 2015. Retrieved September 17, 2015.
^Kroon, Sybylle (5 August 2018). "Records gebroken op Castlefest in Lisse [video's, foto's]". Leidsch Dagblad (in Dutch). Retrieved 25 July 2020.
^ abcWolfsbergen, Mirjam (29 July 2020). "Castlefest, een feest van magische figuren, muziek en honingwijn". omroepwest.nl (in Dutch). Retrieved 2 August 2020.
^Straatsma, Erna (10 July 2021). "Castlefest in Lisse gaat voor tweede jaar op rij niet door vanwege corona: 'Het nieuws is ingeslagen als een bom'". Leidsch Dagblad (in Dutch). Retrieved 14 July 2021.
^Pitzl-Waters, Jason (2014). "The Darker Shade of Pagan: The Emergence of Goth". In Weston, Donna; Bennett, Andy (eds.). Pop Pagans: Paganism and Popular Music. London and New York: Routledge. p. 83. ISBN978-1-84465-646-2.
^Eskes, Janny (July 6, 2009). "De prinsessenjurken van Daniellë". Algemeen Dagblad (in Dutch). Retrieved January 3, 2012.
Further readingedit
Ramstedt, Martin (2007). "Metaphor or invocation? The convergence between modern Paganism and Fantasy fiction". Journal of Ritual Studies. 21 (1): 1–15. JSTOR 44368765.
External linksedit
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