More than 50,000 people have enjoyed the concerts from Thursday to Saturday.
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The festival returns in 2024 and will be held on June 19, 20 and 21 in Mendizabala
Azkena Rock Festival, the rock & roll festival par excellence, bids farewell today to a memorable 22nd edition in which more than 50,000 people have gathered. For three days, bands such as Queens Of The Stone Age, Band Of Horses, Sheryl Crow, Jane’s Addiction, L7, Mavis Staples, Warren Haynes Band, Tarque & La Asociación del Riff, Redd Kross, Arde Bogotá, Ty Segall, PiL.T, The Real McKenzies, Lendakaris Muertos, have passed through its stages, turning Mendizabala, one more year, into the temple of rock.
10 GREAT MOMENTS OF TODAY’S DAY
Sheryl Crow (Photo: Óscar L. Tejeda)
1. Sheryl Crow
There was a great desire to see Sheryl Crow, an icon of American music who has collaborated with names like Jason Isbell, Loretta Lynn, Johnny Cash, Stevie Nicks or Willie Nelson and who has not visited our country for more than two decades. The moment finally arrived today and he did not disappoint.
Band of Horses (Óscar L.Tejeda)
2. Band of Horses
Being their only date in Europe this year, the date with Band of Horses was unavoidable. Ben Bridwell has immersed the audience in a dream world where nostalgia and hope are intertwined in every note.
Mavis Staples (Photo: Jordi Vidal)
3. Mavis Staples
Soul legend Mavis Staples offered a memorable concert that will go down in the history of the festival thanks to the mastery and emotion that this great performer transmits.
Trashville (Photo: Paco Poyato)
4. Trashville
With its own entity, Trashville is already an unavoidable pilgrimage center to complete the Azkena experience. The Mummies have played today at this concert hall within the festival.
Photo: Paco Poyato
5. Audience of all ages
If anything makes Azkena great is its audience and all words of thanks are few. Once again, the protagonists have been the reunions, the emotions experienced, the enjoyment of music in community, without any incident and always with a good atmosphere. In addition, this year, as a novelty, the family audience has counted on the programming of Txiki ARF.
Ben Bridwell (Band of Horses) and Clara Lobo on the Azkena Podcast.
6. The Azkena Podcast
During the three days of the festival the Azkena Podcast has continued recording numerous interviews with artists, audiences and different figures that have passed through Mendizabala in this edition and will be published soon.
Photo: Paco Poyato
7. Balore
This year Azkena Rock Festival has had a space to go to during the event to find out about the determination and value of the festival’s commitment to environmental and social causes. The BALORE space brings together different information points: MOREA Point, dedicated to the prevention and reporting of situations of harassment and sexist violence, ARCOIRIS Point, on the commitment of Azkena Rock Festival with the LGTBIQ+ movement, GREEN Point, on environmental measures of the festival and SOCIAL Point, on the BCorp certification of Last Tour and the work the festival is doing to obtain the Erronka certification of Ihobe-Basque Government. Once again this year the festival closed its doors without incident.
The Pickin’ Boppers (Photo: Paco Poyato)
8. La Virgen Blanca
Starting the day at the White Virgin free access concerts is an Azkena liturgy, which today was officiated by The Pickin`Boppers…. Inspired by the bands of the 40’s and 50’s, their authentic and energetic style has allowed them to stand out in today’s music scene.
Photo: Paco Poyato
9. ARF 2025
Azkena Rock Festival says goodbye this year, but returns in 2025 on June 19, 20 and 21. In Mendizabala, Vitoria-Gasteiz, of course.
Photo: Paco Poyato
10. Thank you so much!
Once again this year the festival would like to thank all the sponsors for their support, with special mention to the City Council of Vitoria-Gasteiz, the Provincial Council of Alava, Petronor as multi-energy partner and La Salve as beer partner. Without their involvement, it would not have been possible to achieve the objectives in terms of development and growth in this edition of the Azkena Rock Festival.
