Due to the pandemic situation last year, the organizers had barely three months to prepare for the largest musical-cultural event in Eastern Hungary. In the light of this circumstance, it can be considered a huge success that there were 87 thousand visitors altogether during the four days of the festival, which featured musicians only from Hungary. This year, Campus will shift to a higher gear by hosting international performances once again.
“The Dutch disc jockey star, Tiësto, is expected to compile the most memorable set of the entire history of the festival, comprising EDM, progressive house and trance numbers. We have also known since last fall that Aurora, the Norwegian singer with a special voice and personality, will come to Debrecen, too. Her career has been soaring in the past few years mostly because she sang the hit “Into the Unknown” in the animation Frozen II and she has a large group of followers on TikTok as well,” said program director András Süli. He added that, besides them, the headliner for Friday would be Zara Larsson from Sweden. Her greatest hit, “Lush Life,” has been streamed over one billion times on Spotify. Another star performance will be granted by the duo Chase & Status, who are extremely popular in Hungary for their songs combining drum’n’bass, dubstep and bass-based electronics, with which they have been featured as main performers at a number of prestigious festivals in Europe in recent years.
A new face in the crowd will be Sigala, i.e., Bruce Fielder, from Great Britain, who is responsible for a range of “dance floor smashers” in cooperation with musicians such as John Newman, Craig David or Paloma Faith. Also from the British Isles but from a different scene, we’ll get The Toy Dolls, a band formed in 1979, which is why they can be truly regarded a punk-rock legend.
“Apart from the big shots, we will also have a choice of real ‘delicacies’ of music, too,” said András Süli. His bill of fare starts with the German Christian Löffler, one of the most exciting figures of the contemporary electronic scene, whose music sounds like a movie soundtrack: attracting and gloomy at the same time. The list goes on with the cult classic club band of the Australian hardcore punk scene, Deez Nuts, the evocative English soul-pop singer, Charlotte OC, who has been really acclaimed in Europe for the past few years, and the nine-piece Dutch afro jazz-funk-dance group, Jungle By Night, who never fail to take festival tents or stages by storm.
As a matter of course, the festival will feature more than 200 Hungarian performers this year, too: it would be hard to find any style or music subculture that is not included in one form or another in the program. Today, Campus is the only remaining major festival that dedicates a separate stage for rock music and provides more than 30 prominent Hungarian rock/punk/metal bands with a chance to do a gig.
Among the participants, the most popular bands attracting large crowds will be complemented with lesser-known new talents. To satiate the demands of the youngest fans, there is going to be a stage specialized for hip-hop, rap and trap. A new trait of the festival will be a truly special location underneath the trees of Nagyerdő [Big Forest], catering for the tastes of the lovers of underground electronic music, delivered jointly by the locally renowned group of organizers, known as Forest Bump.
An ever-present location in all Campus instances is Egyetem Tér, where students and instructors from the University of Debrecen will present a series of exciting features and details of scientific and scholarly fields in the form of engaging lectures and colorful experiments.
The detailed daily schedule of the festival will be available as of March 30, 2022, on the homepage of the festival as well as on social media surfaces, like here.
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