Contempopánea is an Indie pop Music festival that takes place every summer in Alburquerque, Badajoz; however, since 2014, the festival has been divided between this city and the capital city of Badajoz. During the festival, many artists of the Spanish indie music and thousands of their followers meet.
The festival, which was first celebrated in 1996, after being verified the success of festivals like the Benicàssim, has been consolidated like a fundamental reference inside the universe of indie festivals that are celebrated in Spain. The dynamic of this festival is quite different to the one in the rest of the mass music festivals, this is because of its only stage, its short 2 days duration, its limited capacity (around 4000 people), and forever audience who normally repeat the experience every year.
Every year, it is also organized a tribute to a legendary group which is already dissolved, like, for example, The Smiths, Family, Los Flechazos... fro what every group invited to the festival have to play a song of the group selected for that year.
Artists that have been playing in Contempopránea
The festival is mainly organized for Spanish indie groups, but there has also been some foreign groups at the festival, even so, the Spanish ones are the predominant ones.
Amaral
Astrid
Astrud
Bloomington
Carrots
Catpeople
Cecilia Ann
Cooper
Cola Jet Set
Chucho
Deluxe
Deneuve
Deviot
Digital 21
Ellos
Fangoria
Los Fresones Rebeldes
Galáctica
Garzón ahora Grande-Marlaska
Grupo de Expertos Solynieve
Individual
Juniper Moon
L-Kan
La Bien Querida
La Buena Vida
La Casa Azul
Lacrosse
La Granja
La Habitación Roja
La Monja Enana
Lori Meyers
Los Magnéticos
Love of Lesbian
Maga
Maika Makovski
Me Enveneno de Azules
Mercromina
Meteosat
Nadadora
Napoleon Solo
Niños Mutantes
Nóbel
Nosoträsh
Pauline en la Playa
Los Planetas
Polar
Russian Red
Señor Chinarro
Sexy Sadie
Sidonie
Tender Trap
Tarik y la fabrica de colores
The Sunday Drivers
Underwear Tea Party
Vacaciones
Vetusta Morla
We Are Standard
Nacho Vegas
Los Autonautas
Hipo
Cajón de Sastre
Diane
Supertennis
At the same time, this festival has also been an opportunity for a lot of groups, because previously to the festival, it ir organized a demo competition.
