Love Festival Southern California 2011 Live Stream Online

Love Festival Southern California 2011 is held on Saturday, Aug 20 4:00p, at Oak Canyon Ranch At Lake Irvine, Irvine, CA. One of America's longest running dance music festival tours returns for its 19th annual Southern California date.

This live feed is at the Socal Love Festival:

http://www.myworldwebcams.com/music/love_festival_socal.html

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The Generation Celebration returns with 2 massive areas of music featuring the best in house, trance, and progressive. What started out as an underground party in the early 90's has since grown into one of the largest and longest running electronic music festivals in the world, touring through cities including Los Angeles, Las Vegas, San Francisco, San Diego, Denver, Phoenix and other destinations.

Founded in 1878, Silverado , a California Historical Landmark, is an unincorporated community in Silverado Canyon, which is located in the Santa Ana Mountains in eastern Orange County, California. Portions of the town sit on a former Mexican land grant Rancho Lomas de Santiago. The majority of Silverado is located within the boundaries of Cleveland National Forest. The area was mined extensively for silver during the late 19th century. Remnants of mining operations such as the Blue Light Mine are still scattered throughout the surrounding mountains. Timber was harvested for use by the railroad. Coal was mined in a nearby area known at the time as Carbondale.

Ancient sea life fossils can be found within the sandstone cliffs in the area. During Spanish rule, the canyon was visited by Spanish explorers and was known by the name Cañada de la Madera (Timber Canyon). The town in Spain by that name bears a remarkable resemblance to Silverado Canyon. (The name Silverado is a type of Spanglish indicating a place where silver is found; a parallel formation to El Dorado.)

Sunset Strip Los Angeles Music Festival 2011 Live Stream Online

Sunset Strip Music Festival is an American rock music festival, held on the Sunset Strip, a part of Sunset Boulevard in LA, California. SSMF was held for the first time in 2011 and 40 bands took part.

This live feed is at the Sunset Strip Music Festival:

http://www.myworldwebcams.com/music/sunset_strip_festival.html

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The Sunset Strip Music Festival was organized to promote the musical experience, one can mainly occur by bands from Los Angeles along with seasoned sizes of the worldwide music scene. In 2010 the festival attracted 30.000 spectators. The previous year saw 10.000 spectators, the festival. It is comparable to Rock am Ring and Wacken Open Air Unlike RaR is A and W bands and musicians playing at the SSMF from various genres. Sponsored, the Sunset Strip Music Festival by Gibson, Jack Daniels, 98.7 FM, Monte Carlo Resort, West Hollywood MVB, Coca Cola Zero, Glaceau Vitamin Water, Ticketmaster, Budlight, Brand X, Virgin America, Mini, Virgin Australia, Andaz West Hollywood Signature Creative, Honest, Whole Foods, Chambord, Finlandia, Tequila, Tuaca, Swing House Studios and the City of West Hollywood.

The Sunset Strip is the name given to the mile-and-a-half (2.4 km) stretch of Sunset Boulevard that passes through West Hollywood, California. It extends from West Hollywood's eastern border with Hollywood at Harper Avenue, to its western border with Beverly Hills at Sierra Drive. The Strip is probably the best-known portion of Sunset, embracing a premier collection of boutiques, restaurants, rock clubs, and nightclubs that are on the cutting edge of the entertainment industry. It is also known for its trademark array of huge, colorful billboards and has developed a notoriety as a hangout for rock stars, movie stars and other entertainers.

Today the Strip contains some of the most exclusive condominium complexes on the West Coast. However, the most coveted residences in Los Angeles are in the celebrity-studded hills above the Sunset Strip. The highest concentration of celebrities living in Los Angeles are in this part of the Hollywood Hills, located just above Sunset Boulevard, from Kings Road, to Sunset Plaza Drive, to Doheny Drive. Homes in this area generally range from $3–15 million, providing incomparable privacy and breathtaking views of the entire Los Angeles Basin.

Summer Sonic 2011 Live Stream Tokyo

The Summer Sonic Festival is an annual two or three-days rock festival held at the same time in Osaka and Chiba. The majority of the bands playing in Osaka the first day go to Chiba the following day and vice versa.

This live feed is covering Summer Sonic 2011:

http://www.myworldwebcams.com/music/summer_sonic.html

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Chiba Marine Stadium is a stadium in Chiba City, Japan. It opened in 1990 and holds 30,000 people. The official opening of the stadium was held on April 13, 1990, when popstar Madonna opened her Blond Ambition Tour at the venue. Unfortunately, the show was blighted by very heavy rain and high winds, which led to the concert being dramatically scaled-back. The Summer Sonic Festival is held in the stadium and the neighbouring Makuhari Messe every summer. Makuhari Messe is a Japanese convention center outside Tokyo, located in the Mihama-ku ward of Chiba city, in the northwest corner of Chiba prefecture. Designed by Fumihiko Maki, it is easily accessible by Tokyo's commuter rail system. Makuhari is the name of the area, and Messe is a German word meaning "trade fair".

Chiba is the capital city of Chiba Prefecture, Japan. It is located approximately 40 km east of the center of Tokyo on Tokyo Bay. Chiba City became a government designated city in 1992. Its population as of 2008 is approximately 960,000. Chiba City is also one of the Kantō region's primary seaports, and is home to Chiba Port, which handles one of the highest volumes of cargo in the nation. Much of the city is residential, although there are many factories and warehouses located along the coast. There are several major urban centers in the city, including Makuhari, a prime waterfront business district in which Makuhari Messe is located, and Central Chiba, in which the prefectural government office and the city hall are located.

2011 Summer Sonic lineup: The Strokes, Red Hot Chilli Peppers, Ting Tings, Avril Lavigne, Tinie Tempah, X Japan, House of Pain and many more.

Zurich Webcam Street Parade 2011 Live

Watch live streaming from Zurich for the annual Street Parade festival, electronic and techno music fest online feed. Zurich Streetparade live, 13 August 2011 featuring headline DJ acts Carl Cox, Paul van Dyk, Avicii, Eddie Thoneick, Martin Solveig

This live webcam is in Zurich on the day of the Street Parade:

http://www.myworldwebcams.com/events/streetparade.html

Comparable to Berlin's Love Parade, the Street Parade is as of 2004 one of the largest techno parties in the world and the largest annual event in Zurich. Proceeding along the side of Lake Zurich, it normally occurs on the second Saturday in August.

The most colourful house and techno party in the world attracts hundreds of thousands of dance enthusiasts to the Zürich lake basin every year. The parade is a colourful mix of love mobiles, live performances by top DJs, international stars and demonstrations - since 18 years.

Since 1996, the event is organized by the Verein Street Parade (Street Parade Association). Today, the Street Parade has all the character of a popular festival, however legally it is still a political demonstration. This frees the organisation of security costs, among all else that the city takes under its charge.

The Street Parade continues to be one of the safest mass events in the world. This is not just a consequence of the peaceful nature of dance parades, but is also thanks to a widely thought-out prevention concept. Five to ten times more participants at the Love Parade in Berlin had to be medically treated or transported to hospital in the last few years, relative to attendance.

Carl Cox, Paul van Dyk at Zurich Street Parade 2011 Live Stream Online

The Street Parade is the most attended technoparade in Europe, since the end of Germany's ill-fated Loveparade in 2010. It takes annually place in Zurich, Switzerland.

This live feed is in Zurich for the Street Parade:

http://www.myworldwebcams.com/events/streetparade.html

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Comparable to Berlin's Love Parade, the Street Parade is as of 2004 one of the largest techno parties in the world and the largest annual event in Zurich. Proceeding along the side of Lake Zurich, it normally occurs on the second Saturday in August.

The most colourful house and techno party in the world attracts hundreds of thousands of dance enthusiasts to the Zürich lake basin every year. The parade is a colourful mix of love mobiles, live performances by top DJs, international stars and demonstrations - since 18 years.

Since 1996, the event is organized by the Verein Street Parade (Street Parade Association). Today, the Street Parade has all the character of a popular festival, however legally it is still a political demonstration. This frees the organisation of security costs, among all else that the city takes under its charge.

The Street Parade continues to be one of the safest mass events in the world. This is not just a consequence of the peaceful nature of dance parades, but is also thanks to a widely thought-out prevention concept. Five to ten times more participants at the Love Parade in Berlin had to be medically treated or transported to hospital in the last few years, relative to attendance.

Moby, Leftfield, Deftones Live Stream Spirit of Burgas 2011

Spirit of Burgas is a summer music festival in the city of Burgas, on the Black Sea coast of Bulgaria. The first edition of the festival took place on 15–17 August 2008 and since then it has significantly grown in popularity, becoming one of the most prominent summer music festivals in Europe.

This live feed is at the Spirit of Burgas festival:

http://www.myworldwebcams.com/music/spirit_burgas.html

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Spirit of Burgas is organized on Burgas' central beach, part of the Bulgarian Black Sea Coast. Among its partners and sponsors are MTV Europe, who aired two specials about the festival in September 2008, Tuborg, Mobiltel, Jack Daniel's, Jacobs, DSK Bank and others. Line-up on the Main Stage for 2011: Moby, Leftfield, Gotan Project, Skunk Anansie, Deftones, Suicidal Tendancies, Onyx, Skindred, Benga, Youngman, SHY FX Digital Soundboy, Stamina MC, Scratch Perverts, Bong, Tommy Gun, Tekniq, World Premiere, Logos, Fars, DJ Darkstep, The Top Stoppers, Wosh, Jamesbongg, Diwaddloe, Bashment, Soulization and more TBA.

Burgas is the second-largest city and seaside resort on the Bulgarian Black Sea Coast with a population of 200,271 inhabitants according to Census 2011. It is also the fourth-largest by population in Bulgaria, after Sofia, Plovdiv and Varna. It is the capital of Burgas Province and an important industrial, transport, cultural and tourist centre.

Surrounded by the coastal Burgas Lakes and located at the westernmost point of the Black Sea, the large Burgas Bay, Burgas has the largest and most important Bulgarian port. Today, it is a key economic, cultural and tourist centre of southeastern Bulgaria, with the Burgas Airport serving the resorts of the southern Bulgarian coast.

SonneMondSterne 2011 Live Stream Featuring Moby Live Online

The SonneMondSterne Festival (abbreviated SMS) is one of the largest open-air festivals of electronic music in Germany. The first SonneMondSterne Festival took place in 1997 with 2,500 visitors. 2009 about 100,000 people attended the three day event.

This live feed is at the SMS festival:

http://www.myworldwebcams.com/music/sonnemondsterne.html

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As an offshoot, it was in the years 2001 and 2002, the winter camp , which was a series of events in the month of February in order to bridge the time until the next SonneMondSterne Festival. Due to the large number of visitors this winter camp in April 2003 moved to the old military airfield to Allstedt around and took the name SonneMondSterne presents Music Camp. 2004 was the last camp music instead. Allstedt is a town the district of Mansfeld-Südharz, in Saxony-Anhalt, Germany. It is situated approximatively 10 km southeast of Sangerhausen.

Moby sings and plays keyboard, guitar, bass guitar and drums. He became a successful artist on the ambient electronica scene, and achieved eight top 40 singles in the UK during the 1990s. In 1999 he released the album Play, a mix of melancholic chill-out, ambient music, and upbeat electronica, that was critically acclaimed and produced an impressive eight hit singles (including his most popular songs "South Side," "Porcelain," "Natural Blues," and "Why Does My Heart Feel So Bad?"). Play became a commercial success, selling over 10 million copies worldwide (the best-selling electronica album ever) and with its eighteen songs receiving an unprecedented licensing in films, television and commercial advertisements.

WEMF 2011 Live Streaming Ontario Electronic Music Festival

The World Electronic Music Festival (WEMF) is an electronic music event held annually in Southern Ontario over a period of three days. It was run by Destiny Productions out of Toronto.

This live feed is at the World Electronic Music Festival:

http://www.myworldwebcams.com/music/wemf.html

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WEMF 2011 has been announced to take place at Madawaska, Ontario from Friday, August 12 to Sunday August 14. The lineup was announced in stages, with the portion first portion of the headliners released on April 15th, 2011, and the second portion released on May 13, 2011. Highlights include Rusko, Skrillex, Zeds Dead, Pendulum, Andy C, Noisia, Calvin Harris, Infected Mushroom, Caspa, and Mark Breeze. Tickets have been on sale since Tuesday, February 15, 2011and are being offered at escalating prices over time ($25 Increase per 1000 tickets). The talent lineup and budget is alleged to have been substantially increased for the 2011 festival to justify the substantially higher costs relative to previous years.

South Algonquin is a township in the Canadian province of Ontario. Located in the Nipissing District south of Algonquin Park, it is the sole populated portion of the district that lies south of the traditional dividing line between Northern Ontario and Southern Ontario. The township had a population of 1,253 in the Canada 2006 Census. The township comprises the communities of L'Amable, Aylen Lake, Cross Lake, Gunters, Madawaska, McKenzie Lake, Murchison, Opeongo, Wallace and Whitney.

Nature One 2011 Live übertragung

Live streaming from the Pydna unused missile base in Kastellaun, Germany for the 2011 Nature 1 music festival, featuring techno, dance, hip hop music. Live online feed, lineup, weather forecast.

Nature One is one of the largest and most popular European open air techno and electronic music festivals, featuring many renowned DJs from Germany and all over the world.

This live feed is at the Nature One festival:

http://www.myworldwebcams.com/music/nature_one.html

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Unlike Love Parade, Nature One costs an admission of approximately 70 Euros (2010). But unlike the love parade, the only real damage to nature occurs by the trampling of the grass on the bunker hills and the fields used for camping (the crops have always been harvested by the time the festival starts). As a special attraction there is a fireworks display on Saturday evening. The festival lasts for one long weekend each year always on the first weekend of August.

The festival itself is structured into a few "main floors" called Open Air Floor and Century Circus each for a few thousand, Groovalistic Garden, and a few smaller areas, sometimes manned by techno club crews for a few hundred. The whole thing is located at a US missile base called "Pydna", now decommissioned, which has all necessary infrastructure and space for this kind of festival, a total of 100 000 m² (without camping, which takes up more than 1 km²).

Pydna is a former American missile base in Kastellaun, Germany. Nuclear-equipped MGM-1 Matador, MGM-13 Mace and Nike-Hercules Missiles were stationed here. It now hosts Nature One, a famous open-air electronic music festival. Festival facilities now utilize the very bunkers that were once home to 64 Ground-Launch Cruise Missiles (GLCM) (BGM-109), Tactical Nuclear Missiles, under the operational control of the 38th Tactical Missile Wing of the United States Air Force.

Nature 1 Electronic Music Festival 2011 Live Stream Pydna Missile Base

Nature One is one of the largest and most popular European open air techno and electronic music festivals, featuring many renowned DJs from Germany and all over the world.

This live feed is at the Nature One festival:

http://www.myworldwebcams.com/music/nature_one.html

Event Information:

Unlike Love Parade, Nature One costs an admission of approximately 70 Euros (2010). But unlike the love parade, the only real damage to nature occurs by the trampling of the grass on the bunker hills and the fields used for camping (the crops have always been harvested by the time the festival starts). As a special attraction there is a fireworks display on Saturday evening. The festival lasts for one long weekend each year always on the first weekend of August.

The festival itself is structured into a few "main floors" called Open Air Floor and Century Circus each for a few thousand, Groovalistic Garden, and a few smaller areas, sometimes manned by techno club crews for a few hundred. The whole thing is located at a US missile base called "Pydna", now decommissioned, which has all necessary infrastructure and space for this kind of festival, a total of 100 000 m² (without camping, which takes up more than 1 km²).

Pydna is a former American missile base in Kastellaun, Germany. Nuclear-equipped MGM-1 Matador, MGM-13 Mace and Nike-Hercules Missiles were stationed here. It now hosts Nature One, a famous open-air electronic music festival. Festival facilities now utilize the very bunkers that were once home to 64 Ground-Launch Cruise Missiles (GLCM) (BGM-109), Tactical Nuclear Missiles, under the operational control of the 38th Tactical Missile Wing of the United States Air Force.

David Guetta Live Online Monegros Desert Festival 2011

Live streaming from the desert of Monegros region Spain for the 2011 Monegros Desert Festival, featuring techno, hip-hop , drum and bass music and dance. Watch online festival stream.

This live feed is at the Monegros Desert Festival, featuring David Guetta as the headline act:

http://www.myworldwebcams.com/music/monegros_festival.html

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The festival began as a meeting of the patrons of the club Florida 135 , was first held in 1994 and today has become one of the most important events of European electronic culture. With an influx in recent editions of 40,000 people, it is an event that affects the whole area, as cities such as Lleida , Zaragoza and Huesca and the surrounding villages of the estate of the festival, see their hotel rooms benefit from being full for the days of the festival.

Los Monegros is a comarca in Aragon, Spain. It is located within the provinces of Zaragoza and Huesca. The area is prone to chronic droughts, and much of the area is badlands. Los Monegros borders seven comarcas: Hoya de Huesca to the North; Somontano de Barbastro, Cinca Medio, and Bajo Cinca to the East; Zaragoza to the West; and Ribera Baja del Ebro and Bajo Aragón-Caspe to the South.

Monegros Desert Music Festival 2011 Live Stream Online

The Monegros Desert Festival is a techno festival of electronic music that takes place in Spain in the region of the Monegros between the towns of Candasnos and Fraga.

This live feed is at the Monegros Desert Festival:

http://www.myworldwebcams.com/music/monegros_festival.html

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The festival began as a meeting of the patrons of the club Florida 135 , was first held in 1994 and today has become one of the most important events of European electronic culture. With an influx in recent editions of 40,000 people, it is an event that affects the whole area, as cities such as Lleida , Zaragoza and Huesca and the surrounding villages of the estate of the festival, see their hotel rooms benefit from being full for the days of the festival.

Los Monegros is a comarca in Aragon, Spain. It is located within the provinces of Zaragoza and Huesca. The area is prone to chronic droughts, and much of the area is badlands. Los Monegros borders seven comarcas: Hoya de Huesca to the North; Somontano de Barbastro, Cinca Medio, and Bajo Cinca to the East; Zaragoza to the West; and Ribera Baja del Ebro and Bajo Aragón-Caspe to the South.

The Sierra de Alcubierre mountain chain crosses the comarca from Northwest to Southeast. Its maximum elevation is 822 meters, at the mountain called Oscuro. The climate is semiarid, with scarce rainfall and high temperatures in the autumn. The area has numerous saltwater and freshwater lakes, including the Lake of Sariñena and the Lake of la Playa. The area's cultural heritage includes several historical monasteries, including the Monasterio de Santa María de Sigena and the Charterhouse of Las Fuentes.

Kavarna Dance Festival Bulgaria 2011 Live Stream Online

In recent years Kavarna, Bulgaria has turned into the Rock Capital of the Balkans. The city had guest over 40 world renowned artists, including Dio, Manowar, Deep Purple, Scorpions and Whitesnake.

This live feed is in Kavarna for the 2011 dance festival:

http://www.myworldwebcams.com/music/kavarna_festival.html

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In the summer of 2011., along with the traditional rock festival in Kavarna will take place and the first Summer Dance Festival Kavarna 2011.

Kavarna is a Black Sea coastal town and seaside resort in the Dobruja region of northeastern Bulgaria. It lies 64 km northeast of Varna and 49 km from Dobrich on the international road E87. As of December 2009, the town has a population of 11,397 inhabitants. A little yacht port, a fishing base, a spacious beach and a resort complex exist in the town. The landmark Cape Kaliakra is located a few kilometers to the east, as is the tony beachfront resort of Rusalka. Three 18-hole golf courses with villa communities and marinas are being developed nearby, two of the courses are designed by Gary Player and one by Ian Woosnam.

The lay of the land is flat and the seacoast of Kavarna is 42 km long. Along it there are small beaches, including an artificial one. Gore Chirakman with its almost sheer slopes towers above the seacoast. Remains of stronghold walls, moats, buildings, churches and necropolises can be found on the flat plateau. The region is rich in mineral waters. Since 2004 the town has turned in one of the centres of musical life in Bulgaria. Kavarna has been the host to several rock and roll concerts. In 2005 the most popular band to play in the town's stadium was Deep Purple. The other notable performers were mostly legends of German rock and heavy metal music, such as Scorpions, Axel Rudi Pell, Gamma Ray, Masterplan and Destruction.

LoveEvolution 2011 Live Stream Oakland Coliseum Grounds, SF, California

SF Lovevolution 2011 will return to San Francisco in September, now CONFIRMED as being Saturday 24 September 2011, at Oakland Coliseum Grounds, replacing the previous Market St location.

For full details, events, updates and live streaming, visit:

http://www.myworldwebcams.com/events/lovevolution.html

Event Background:

San Francisco LovEvolution (formerly San Francisco LoveFest) is a technoparade and festival that occurs annually in San Francisco in late September and early October. The parade includes 28 floats and starts at San Francisco's 2nd and Market Streets. The parade continues all the way to San Francisco Civic Center Plaza for a giant outdoor dance club with famous DJs. The 2008 parade drew over 120,000 people.

Modeled after Germany’s annual Love Parade, the San Francisco LovEvolution has grown year after year and continues to build worldwide recognition. Loveparade originated in Berlin in 1989 after the fall of the Berlin Wall, but in 2003, the city denied the parade a permit and the event moved to San Francisco. Last year, when German organizers were able to secure permits back in Berlin, North American organizers decided to continue their own event and dubbed it the LoveFest, changing the name in 2009 to LovEvolution. San Francisco's LovEvolution is also followed by an official after-party known as LovEvolution After Party. Three other cities around the world sponsor similar events every year.

LoveEvolution 2011 Date Confirmed as 24 September, Oakland Coliseum Grounds

Lovevolution will return to San Francisco in September 2011, now CONFIRMED as being Saturday 24 September 2011, at Oakland Coliseum Grounds, replacing the previous Market St location.

For full details, events, updates and live streaming, visit:

SF Lovevolution 2011 Live

Event Background:

San Francisco LovEvolution (formerly San Francisco LoveFest) is a technoparade and festival that occurs annually in San Francisco in late September and early October. The parade includes 28 floats and starts at San Francisco's 2nd and Market Streets. The parade continues all the way to San Francisco Civic Center Plaza for a giant outdoor dance club with famous DJs. The 2008 parade drew over 120,000 people.

Modeled after Germany’s annual Love Parade, the San Francisco LovEvolution has grown year after year and continues to build worldwide recognition. Loveparade originated in Berlin in 1989 after the fall of the Berlin Wall, but in 2003, the city denied the parade a permit and the event moved to San Francisco. Last year, when German organizers were able to secure permits back in Berlin, North American organizers decided to continue their own event and dubbed it the LoveFest, changing the name in 2009 to LovEvolution. San Francisco's LovEvolution is also followed by an official after-party known as LovEvolution After Party. Three other cities around the world sponsor similar events every year.

Paris Webcam for Technoparade 2010

Technoparade is a parade of vehicles equipped with strong loudspeakers and amplifiers playing techno music. It resembles a carnival parade in some respects, but the vehicles (called lovemobiles) are usually less elaborately decorated.

This live web camera feed is in Paris for this event:

Paris Techno Parade Live

Event Information:

Technoparade doesn't share the carnival parade tradition of bombarding the spectators with sweets. However, the revellers do occasionally throw confetti (usually larger and more sparkly than that in a carnival parade) and spray foam from the vehicles onto the crowd.

Nearly all of the vehicles are converted trucks. In order to power the amplifiers, the trucks are frequently equipped with an additional electrical generator. For safety reasons, horse-drawn floats are never used in technoparades: there would be a danger of horses panicking from the noise and chaos. However, there are occasional human-drawn floats equipped with generators, record players, amplifiers and loudspeakers. Some of the vehicles allow people to ride along, for a fee. For those on the sidelines, or travelling alongside on foot or bicycles, attendance is free.

Zurich Webcam - Live at the 2010 Street Parade Dance Music Festival

The Zurich Street Parade presents the latest electronic music by top international stars and innovative newcomers across seven massive stages and 30 Love Mobiles. Over 200 DJs, live acts and VJs plus hundreds of dancers will be performing throughout the day and evening to make an event to remember.

This live webcam comes form Zurich on the day of the festival:

Zurich Webcam

Location Information:

Zürich or Zurich is the largest city in Switzerland and the capital of the canton of Zürich. It is located in central Switzerland at the northwestern tip of Lake Zürich. While the municipality itself has 380,500 inhabitants, the Zürich metropolitan area is an urbanised area of international importance constituted by a population of nearly 2 million inhabitants. Zürich is a mixed hub for railways, roads, and air traffic. Both Zürich Airport and railway station are the largest and busiest in the country.

Permanently settled for around 7,000 years, the history of Zürich goes back to its founding by the Romans, who, in 15 BC, called it Turicum. During the Middle Ages Zürich gained the independent and privileged status of imperial immediacy and, in 1519, was the place of origin and center of the Protestant Reformation in German-speaking Switzerland, led by Ulrich Zwingli.