Mysteryland festival heads to original Woodstock site,
Bethel Woods, New York
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Amsterdam, August 21th 2013 – The world’s longest-running electronic music festival, Mysteryland, is making its US debut in 2014 in Bethel Woods, the site of the legendary 1969 Woodstock festival. The move marks an historic moment for organizer ID&T, the brains behind high-profile festivals such as Sensation, Tomorrowland, TomorrowWorld and Q-dance.
This will be the first time a multi-day festival is hosted at the iconic Bethel Woods site in upstate New York. Forty-five years after the legendary Woodstock festival, the site will host Mysteryland during Memorial Day weekend from May 23 through May 26, 2014.
Promoters from all over the world have been trying for decades to convince the owners of the Bethel Woods site to host large-scale festivals in this special spot. After a year of talks, ID&T has finally won approval for the first US edition of Mysteryland, which is also held annually in the Netherlands and Chile. The 20th edition of Mysteryland in the Netherlands will be taking place on August 24 this year and all 60,000 tickets have once again sold out.
“We chose ID&T’s Mysteryland brand as the first modern era festival on the hallowed grounds for its belief in many of the same principles as our own organization. Creativity, unity, social responsibility and a focus on the “experience” of the guest. We are delighted to be working with an experienced festival creator and an organization of such high core values. We look forward to welcoming our Mysteryland guests to our wonderful bucolic and peaceful setting here at Bethel Woods Center for the Arts, the site of the 1969 Woodstock festival. We can’t wait to greet them!” – Darlene Fedun, CEO of Bethel Woods Center for the Arts;
Mysteryland’s multi-faceted approach has been a winning formula for no less than two decades. The festival offers its guests a creative journey, combining music with theatre, movies, interactive installation art, street performers and spectacular shows at bizarre decorated stages. To create this amazing spectacle, the festival organizers collaborate with a wide range of creative people from all over the world. As a nomad Mysteryland travels across the globe to find international artists willing to work with the festival and to make it an even richer experience. The musical offerings are also all about discovery. In addition to legends from the international dance scene, the festival provides a stage for new and local talents: the next generation.
Mysteryland has been a leading pioneer on the dance festival scene in Europe and the US since 1993 and has inspired numerous other organizers and events. The famous Tomorrowland festival, also produced by ID&T, emerged from the key values of the Mysteryland festival. Furthermore Mysteryland has also been a major catalyst for the electronic music revolution since the early 1990s.
And Mysteryland continues to evolve to this day as an innovator on the festival scene. One example is the sustainability program ‘Celebrate Life’, which ID&T uses to draw attention to topical issues such as engagement, nature and talent by linking them to activities before, during and after the festival.
The first US edition of Mysteryland at this iconic location will be all about quality. The multi-day festival will be a very exclusive gathering, with only 20,000 tickets available.
‘This location, the site of the mother of all festivals Woodstock 45 years ago, needs no further introduction. We are honored that Bethel Woods has chosen to host Mysteryland. We see the similarities between the great demonstration of community and peace that was Woodstock, and the current culture of electronic music festivals. Differences between peoples simply disappear at our festivals. Everyone is equal on the dance floor and everyone can forget their everyday troubles and come together to enjoy the music and everything else that’s on offer. And these days, it is also about the growing awareness among our visitors of issues such as solidarity, sustainability and the enthusiasm of our multi-cultural audience to create a unique moment with the organizer and the artists. It’s not about big-name artists. It’s about everything and everyone coming together to inspire and get inspired. And people celebrating life together. It would be amazing if Mysteryland at Bethel Woods could unite some of that feeling from 45 years ago with the feeling of today.” –Duncan Stutterheim, CEO ID&T.
Anybody who would like to secure a ticket can sign up for the ticket sale at www.Mysteryland.com from today. The tickets will be sold in order of registration in about two months. More detailed information about the ticket sales will follow at a later stage.
About Bethel Woods Center for the Arts
Although only concluding it’s eighth season since opening in 2006, the roots for what became Bethel Woods Center for the Arts began over 44 years ago. These roots, established during the 1960’s, a tumultuous decade involving a nation struggling with an unpopular war, civil rights issues, freedom of expression, and an explosion in music….a Decade of ideals…..a decade culminating in one of the most recognized music and art festivals in history. The Woodstock festival in 1969. These roots lay dormant for nearly 37 years, before a cable television magnate and philanthropist, Alan Gerry, had a vision to purchase and develop the property in order to create an economic benefit for his home, Sullivan County. The vision to create a world classperforming arts center and museum was realized in 2006. It is therefore very fitting to come full circle and celebrate music and art on this site. We chose ID & T’s Mysteryland brand as the first modern era festival on the hallowed grounds for its belief in many of the same principles as our own organization. Creativity, unity, social responsibility and a focus on the “experience” of the guest. We are delighted to be working with an experienced festival creator and an organization of such high core values. We look forward to welcoming our Mysteryland guests to our wonderful bucolic and peaceful setting here at Bethel Woods Center for the Arts, the site of the 1969 Woodstock festival. We can’t wait to greet you!
About Mysteryland
As one of ID&T’s key brands, Mysteryland is the longest running and largest electronic music festival in The Netherlands, celebrating its 20th edition in 2013. Through the years it has developed an unique recipe to deliver an incomparable five star festival experience to more than 60.000 visitors from all backgrounds, ages and places. Naturally, the years of expertise are infused in decoration, crowd services, story lines, stage design, sound and much more that makes Mysteryland stand out amongst other festivals.
This successful strategy has resulted in the fact that the festival is about to embark on a global trip to some of the most beautiful and legendary places in the world. The Picarquin nature resort in Chile will host the festival for the third time in 2013 and with Bethel Woods during the Memorial Day weekend in 2014, Mysteryland will continue to create a world of serendipity through surprising, creative, diverse and involving moments to let everyone forget the world around them.
Mysteryland is well known for bringing the most diverse journey in sound, a veritable panorama of electronic beats brought by both international and local artists from talents to rising stars, in a creative and beautiful setting all coming together to create thousands of unforgettable experiences on the dance floor and more.
About ID&T
ID&T is a pioneering electronic music experience company, producing world renowned events such as the globetrotting Sensation, record breaking Tomorrowland and legendary Mysteryland. We work with the world’s most talented and innovative DJs, musicians, creatives and artists to create dance events that bring people together, in places that thrill the senses. Music is deeply rooted in our souls. It inspires us to create events where people can let go and ‘Celebrate Life’ – together and as individuals.
Our aim is to spread joy, have fun and share ideas with the generations of tomorrow.
We encourage people to become aware of their individual and collective impact on the world, ecologically, socially and spiritually. We aim to expand this awareness and inspire others to help make our world a more joyful one.
At our live events and online, we interact with a massive amount of music lovers, DJs, artists, creatives and business partners. The way in which we deal with so much potential and responsibility is reflected in our
At our live events and online, we interact with an enormous number of dance lovers, DJs, artists, creativesand business partners. We have central purchasing power and are passionate about investing in personnel development and innovation. The way in which we deal with so much potential and responsibility is reflected in our company’s mission to ‘Celebrate Life’.
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