About Sonar festival 2020
The stunning city of Barcelona plays host to one of the biggest celebrations of electronic music on the planet, Sónar Festival.
Sónar is billed as a festival of advanced music and multimedia art, with music taking precedent of course. With much being focused on cutting edge production values, and music pioneers in their field, Sónar remains at the forefront of forward thinking festivals.
Previous headliners have been LCD Soundsystem, Aphex Twin, Magnetic Man, Dizzee Rascal, Chemical Brothers, Animal Collective, Claude VonStroke, and many many others.
With the festival running at a huge three days and three nights, and with attendances regularly around the 80,000 mark, Sónar is a festival that has been gaining recognition for its dedicated approach and unique vision, all dispatched with great aplomb. It has become a place that is an ‘essential meeting point for an alert public, cutting-edge artists and the most influential professionals from the sectors of music and modern arts’.
Above all, Sónar continues to be an essential festival for lovers of electronic music.
Sonar festival line up
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2020 line up Announced...
- 2manydjs (dj set)
- afrojuice195
- airaboi
- aj tracey
- alina pash
- ame
- anna
- arca
- avalon emerson
- b1n0
- badsista
- battles
- batu
- the black madonna
- the blaze
- califato 3/4
- carl cox
- carles viarnes & alba g. corral
- channel tres
- charlotte de witte
- the chemical brothers
- chenta tsai - baobae
- chico blanco
- conducta
- critical soundsystem
- dave
- dead normal
- despacio (james murphy + 2manydjs)
- dj marcelle / another nice mess
- djohnston
- dj python
- egosex
- eric prydz
- etm
- folamour
- gela
- giant swan
- headie one
- helen hauff
- hidrogenesse
- howling
- ikram bouloum
- ivy barkakati
- james murphy
- jayda g
- job jobse
- joy orbison
- juicy bae
- jyoty
- kaydy cain
- kelman duran
- kink
- koreless
- la fleur
- laurent garnier
- lechuga zafiro
- lindstrom
- lost souls of saturn
- lous and the yakuza
- lucient
- manara
- maria arnal i marcel bages
- max cooper - yearning for the infinite
- mbodj
- mc yallah & debmaster
- midlan & shanti celeste
- miret
- morad
- ms nina
- mura masa
- nara is neus
- nihiloxica
- nino de elche
- nu guinea live band
- or:la
- people you may know
- pixel de stael
- polo & pan
- princess nokia
- project pablo live
- reinier zonneveld live
- reykjavik606
- richie hawtin
- rojuu
- royce rolo
- ryoichi kurokawa - subassemblies
- sama'
- sega bodega
- skee mask
- telefon tel aviv
- tnght
- tomm¥ €a$h
- virginie
- venus x
- wesphere
Sonar festival information & FAQs
By Plane
If you are flying in to Barcelona, Barcelona International Airport would be the destination which is located 18km from the city centre.
By Bus
For the nighttime events there will be regular Sonar busses running on Friday and Saturday from Fira Gran Via (M2) L'Hospitalet between 20:30 and 8:00.
Sonar started in 1994 and has been growing every year since. It is a festival of music and digital art based in the heart of the city of Barcelona. At last years Sonar more than 80 thousand people were able to enjoy a musical programme that combines the big names in current electronic music aswel as more underground and less famous acts.
Sonar is characterised as a meeting point for for a public interested in innovetion from all over the world aswel as profesionals that use the space created by the festival tu espose products and establish contacts.
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