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  • Rock Werchter is a Belgian annual music festival held in the village of Werchter, near Leuven, since 1976

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  • It is a large sized annual rock music festival
  • The 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2012 and 2014 festivals received the Arthur award for best festival in the world at the International Live Music Conference (ILMC)
  • It can host 88,000 guests daily, of which 67,500 combine all four days, to add up to a total maximum of 149,500 different attendees
  • The festival started in 1974 as a one-day event with performances from Banzai and Kandahar, but over the years it has evolved to become one of Belgium's largest music festival
  • Originally it was a double-festival, called "Torhout-Werchter", with two festival areas at different sites in Belgium: one in Werchter and one in Torhout
  • In 1999, the festival dropped the Torhout site and since then has taken place only in Werchter
  • Since 2003 Werchter has been a 4-day festival, as it was sold by owner Herman Schueremans to American organizers Live Nation
  • Schueremans however remains the main organiser of the event
  • The festival is organised every first weekend of the summer vacation in Belgium (last weekend of June or the first of July)
  • Roskilde festival and the Arras Main Square Festival are almost always organised in the same weekend, so they can 'share' bands

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