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PREVIEW
FESTIVAL
photograph Ikaz Video
Hadra Trance Festival 2013 was a
beautiful edition, in terms of organisation, crowd and music ! More than 10000
people gathered for 4 days and 3 nights
and...it was magic.
But the financial reality was another
story...
Because of the problems experienced at
2012’s with rain and intense cold, the authorities put us under massive pressure
for 2013 to improve every aspect of the
planning and security for 2013. This led
to an obligation to spend vast amounts of
money, far above what would normally be
expected at a festival...
As a result, the budget had grown to an
almost unsustainable level. We hoped for
the best, needing 12,000 people to break
even but unfortunately 10,000 came. This
has resulted in a huge deficit…
The final months of 2013 were hard trying
to work out a solution to this. What could
happen in 2014 was the big unknown.
But finally, we can tell you that we’re preparing a really special edition for 2014 !
We’re working on a new start, with new
ideas, new implants and a fresh spirit to
bring you something unique !
A festival represents an amazing opportunity to gather a large audience for a
perfect psychedelic experience in a stunning scenery, everything coming together
to create a timeless event ! But it’s also
a one-off occasion to support our movement and gather worldwide artists together ! Hadra has always paid special
attention to its programming, assuming
a pioneering role in France to mix less
well known local artists and international headliners. It is a goal every organizer should keep in mind, to improve the
scene and focus on developing new psytrance artists, not just only main headliners...
Moreover, a psychedelic festival is not
only about music, it’s a place for revitalizing the spirit, for living together, for
dreaming, for change lives and all that is
created by everyone - the public, the organisers and hundreds of volunteers, the
musicians and the artist crews, the decor
teams and the amazing universes they
create, the lecturers, the stallholders...
It’s also about local development. Hadra,
working as a non-profit organisation,
wants to extoll the message that psytrance culture - too often denigrated by
the main stream - is a thriving and respectful culture. Psytrance culture and its
festivals can work well with local retailers
and authorities, paying a particular attention to environmentally friendly measures
to create what is a sustainable and profitable festival for everyone !
That is what Hadra stands for
and hopes become the norm all over
the world !