The Vilar de Mouros festival kicks off four days of music today with a free day dedicated to Portuguese music, featuring Delfins, GNR, Legendary Tigerman, the Amália Hoje project and locals Fogo Frio.
Until Saturday, the festival in the municipality of Caminha will feature artists such as the British The Cult, The Darkness, The Libertines and The Waterboys, the Brazilians Soulfly, the Portuguese Moonspell, Ramp, Ornatos Violeta, and the South Africans Die Antwoord (a duo who have been accused of abuse), among many others.
This year, the festival will have an area called “My first dressing room”, for “the new generation of festival-goers, equipped with the essentials for baby care, such as a baby changing table, microwave and highchairs”.
The event has “free and regular” transportation between Caminha train station, in the district of Viana do Castelo, and the venue (and vice versa), between today and August 24. On Sunday, transport will run between 11:00 and 16:00 to take festival-goers back to Caminha.
The festival organizers point out that “due to the cancellation of The Queens Of The Stone Age and, consequently, of Jazmin Bean, who was on tour with the band, daily ticket holders for August 21 can either request a refund or exchange for a daily ticket for one of the other days, at no additional cost”.
The country’s first music festival, which still enjoys the fame of the ‘Portuguese Woodstock’, took place in 1971 in Vilar de Mouros, having suffered an eight-year hiatus between 2006 and 2014.
The first edition, in 1971, launched by doctor António Barge, was attended, among others, by Elton John and Manfred Mann.
