The Eurockéennes de Belfort ( French pronunciation: [øʁɔkeɛn də bɛlfɔʁ] ; English: Eurockeans of Belfort ) is one of France 's largest rock music festivals . The Eurockéennes, a play on words involving rock (rock music) and européennes (Europeans), is a festival based in a nature reserve beside Lac de Malsaucy Belfort .
7-673: 1989 marked the first time round for the festival, when it went under the name Le Ballon - Territoire de musiques , named after the nearby Ballon d'Alsace . The festival was organised to take place on the Ballon d'Alsace, but the peninsula on the Malsaucy lake was chosen in the end, because it was easier to link by car, bus and even train. It was the brainchild of the Conseil général of the Territoire de Belfort , who wanted to dynamise their département with
14-603: A Celtic sun calendar . Ballon d'Alsace has a humid continental climate ( Köppen climate classification Dfb ). The average annual temperature in Ballon d'Alsace is 6.6 °C (43.9 °F). The average annual rainfall is 2,263.6 mm (89.12 in) with December as the wettest month. The temperatures are highest on average in July, at around 14.9 °C (58.8 °F), and lowest in January, at around −1.2 °C (29.8 °F). The highest temperature ever recorded in Ballon d'Alsace
21-453: A big cultural event for its youths. In 1990 the festival was renamed les Eurockéennes de Belfort . Attendance: Les Eurockéennes takes place on the peninsula of Lake Malsaucy , 10 kilometres from Belfort . A number of different stages are present – la Grande Scène, le Chapiteau, la Loggia and la Plage. Most of the time there are simultaneous concerts on different stages; altogether in 2005 there were about 70. A campsite , 3 km from
28-727: The Alsatian Belchen to distinguish it from other mountains named " Belchen ") is a mountain at the border of Alsace , Lorraine , and Franche-Comté . From its top, views include the Vosges , the Rhine valley, the Black Forest , and the Alps . A road leads over a pass near the peak at the Col du Ballon d'Alsace , 1,171 m (3,842 ft). The pass is noted as the site of the first official mountain climb in
35-540: The Tour de France on 11 July 1905, the first rider to the top of the climb being René Pottier and the stage being won by Hippolyte Aucouturier . Stage 9 of the 2005 Tour crossed this pass on the centenary of the original climb. Ballon d'Alsace features Alpine and Cross Country skiing tracks. The mountain is part of the so-called Belchen system , a group of mountains with the name "Belchen" (in German) that may have been part of
42-661: The main site, is the free and temporary home to 15000 festival-goers, with a free shuttle bus running between the campsite and the entrance to the main area. It was announced on 13 April 2020 that the 2020 edition would be cancelled because of the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic . Eurockeennes 2021 was cancelled as well. Tremplins ( stepping stones ) are organised to allow youth groups to get to know one another. These are organised in Alsace , Bourgogne , Franche-Comté ( Doubs , Jura , Haute-Saône and Territoire de Belfort ), Lorraine , Germany and Switzerland . Vopli Vidopliassova's set
49-457: Was released on LP and CD a year later as Abo abo . Due to a storm, many performances had to be cut out, including Davy Spillane Band - Hubert-Félix Thiéfaine - Les Garçons Bouchers - P.V.O. - Stephan Eicher - Stéphane Riva). Ballon d%27Alsace The Ballon d'Alsace ( French pronunciation: [balɔ̃ dalzas] ; German : Elsässer Belchen , pronounced [ˈɛlzɛsɐ ˈbɛlçn̩] ) (el. 1247 m.), sometimes also called
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