Stufstock (
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WoodstockWoodstock Music & Art Fair was a music festival, billed as "An Aquarian Exposition: 3 Days of Peace & Music", held at Max Yasgur's 600-acre dairy farm near the hamlet of White Lake in the town of Bethel, New York, from August 15 to August 18, 1969...
) is a rock music festival that has taken place each year since 2003 in
Vama VecheVama Veche is a village in Romania on the Black Sea coast, near the border with Bulgaria, at 28.3 E longitude, 43.5 N latitude. It is part of the commune of Limanu and in 2002, it had a population of 178....
, Dobrogea,
RomaniaRomania is a country located in Southeastern and Central Europe, North of the Balkan Peninsula, on the Lower Danube, within and outside the Carpathian arch, bordering on the Black Sea. Almost all of the Danube Delta is located within its territory...
, to protest against what some people may consider bad quality music (i.e.
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and Romanian pop music), and to call for the preservation of Vama Veche from the large scale development that has overtaken much of Romania's
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coast.
Allegedly, the festival had the reverse effect: the village stopped being a small, clean and quiet place, as the festival and concerts attracted more than 40,000 people in 2005. According to another point of view, though, the festival slowed down what it couldn't stop and therefore managed to do some good. The concerts feature bands from Romania and nearby countries.
The 2006 Edition
The most recent Stufstock was in 2006, from September 1 to September 3, and was the first edition that required an entrance fee. Day one featured
alternative rockAlternative rock is a genre of rock music that emerged in the 1980s and became widely popular in the 1990s...
and
punk rockPunk rock is a rock music genre that developed between 1974 and 1976 in the United States, the United Kingdom and Australia. Rooted in garage rock and other forms of what is now known as protopunk music, punk rock bands eschewed the perceived excesses of mainstream 1970s rock...
bands such as E.M.I.L.,
Timpuri Noi-History:Timpuri Noi was formed in 1980, and remained an underground act up to 1991. This was mainly due to what was perceived as "subversive lyrical content" in the Ceauşescu era. Incidentally, the name derives from a cliché of the period: its literal meaning is "New Times" , used to signify...
, Kumm and Subscribe, day two featured
hard rockHard rock or heavy rock is a sub-genre of rock music which has its earliest roots in mid-1960s garage and psychedelic rock and is considerably harder than conventional rock music...
and
heavy metalHeavy metal is a genre of rock music that developed in the late 1960s and early 1970s, largely in England and the United States...
bands such as Implant Pentru Refuz,
AltarAltar is a Romanian Christian metal band from Cluj Napoca, that formed in 1991. After a couple of local shows, the band had their first national concert at the '91 Samrock Festival, where they won the prize for the most popular band. After the performance at the Timişoara '92 Studfest, Altar was...
,
PhoenixTranssylvania Phoenix is a Romanian rock and roll band, the first one to take musical inspiration from ancient Romanian folk themes....
and
Luna AmarăLuna Amară is a Romanian alternative rock band. The name means "Bitter Moon" in Romanian, and is borrowed from the Roman Polański movie of the same name, inspired by the eponymous novel written by Pascal Bruckner....
, and day three featured
jazzJazz is a musical art form which originated at the beginning of the 20th century in African American communities in the Southern United States from a confluence of African and European music traditions....
and
bluesBlues is the name given to both a musical form and a music genre created within the African-American communities in the Deep South of the United States at the end of the 19th century from spirituals, work songs, field hollers, shouts and chants, and rhymed simple narrative ballads...
bands such as Bega Blues Band, Soul Funkotopia and Al Jawala. It was held at two different places: Marina Park Stage and Şoni Stage.
The fifth edition of Stufstock (TM) will take place between 16-19 August 2007. The headliners of the festival will be The Dandy Warhols and Bloodhound Gang. They will complete the list of over forty bands that will play during the four days of the event