Appelpop is a two-day pop festival in the Dutch town of
Tiel
Tiel () is a municipality and a town in the middle of the Netherlands. The town is enclosed by the Waal river and the Linge river to the South and the North, and the Amsterdam-Rhine Canal to the East. Tiel comprises the population centres Kapel- ...
that is held in the second weekend of September, a week in advance of the ''Fruitcorso'' event.
The festival was introduced in 1991 in the town centre with a few hundred visitors, but it soon attracted more public and moved to a parking place adjacent to the river
Waal
WAAL (99.1 FM "The Whale") is a commercial radio station licensed to Binghamton, New York. It airs a classic rock radio format and is owned by Townsquare Media. WAAL is the oldest FM radio station in the Binghamton metropolitan area. It is an ...
. With some 180,000 visitors in 2008, it is the largest free festival in the
Netherlands
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that lasts for more than a day.
During the years, many bands (mostly Dutch bands) played on this festival.
Anouk,
Bløf,
Krezip
Krezip is a Dutch pop, rock, and alternative music band from Tilburg, Netherlands, formed in 1997. Krezip's members formed a cover band while in the midst of highschool, and were still remarkably young when they broke through, playing all origin ...
and
Within Temptation
Within Temptation is a Dutch symphonic metal band founded in April 1996 by vocalist Sharon den Adel and guitarist Robert Westerholt. They have been classified by critics as gothic metal and symphonic metal, although each album contains other inf ...
have all played multiple times at Appelpop.
External links
Appelpop
Music festivals in the Netherlands
Recurring events established in 1991
Tourist attractions in Gelderland
1991 establishments in the Netherlands
Tiel
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