Smukfest Festival

Smukfest (also known as the Skanderborg Festival) is a music festival held annually in Denmark during the second weekend of August. Its setting in a beech forest near Skanderborg has given rise to the slogan "Denmarks' Most Beautiful Festival" (Danish: Danmarks Smukkeste Festival).

The festival features a wide range of musical genres, including rock, pop, folk, heavy metal, hip-hop, and electronic. The festival focuses primarily on Danish music, but also features some big names from other countries, such as Britney Spears, Eric Clapton, Prince, Pet Shop Boys, Ozzy Osbourne, Tom Jones, Fat Boy Slim, Blood Hound Gang, Rihanna, and many others.

The first festival, held in 1980, was a one-day event with seven bands and approximately 600 spectators. The festival has a mascot named "Waltidur Festismuk Kærligkys Ølimund Rockilund Trold" (Waltidur Party-beauty Loving-kiss Beer-in-mouth Rock-in-grove Troll), who was born in 1579, making the festival the 400th anniversary of Waltidur's birth.

Skanderborg Festival celebrated its 30th anniversary in 2009, and it is now Denmark's second largest festival, after the Roskilde Festival. The festival drew over 50,000 people to the concerts, including 8,500 workers, the majority of whom were volunteers, and has filled the current site to capacity.

Where: Skanderborg, Denmark

When: August