Flevo Festival

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The Flevo Festival was an open air Christian music festival held each August in the Netherlands. The festival was first organized as the Kamperland Festival in 1978 by the Dutch arm of Youth for Christ and became a private foundation in 2002. The last event was held in 2012; one month later, the organization decided to stop gatherings because the quantity of visitors was decreasing: For example, in 2012 the number of people attending the festival was 6,000, whereas in 2011 that number was 9,500 people.

In its heyday, the festival attracted approximately 10,000 to 20,000 people each year. It highlighted all musical styles, but especially rock, and was considered by some[ who? ] to be the most important European Christian festival. Previous headline bands have included Stryper, dc Talk, Jars of Clay, Sixpence None the Richer, Bride, Audio Adrenaline, SONICFLOOd, Switchfoot and Five Iron Frenzy.

In 2013 a group of former volunteers from Flevo Festival organised a festival in line with the 35 years of history of Flevo, naming it Flavor Festival.

Main Stage Performances (period from 1991)

YearThursdayFridaySaturdaySunday
1991 Split Level
P.I.D.
Leon Patillo
Allies
Stryper
Brighton
Susan Ashton
The Throes
DeGarmo & Key
Julie Miller
Kenny Marks
In The Silence
Steve Grace
P.I.D.
Steven Curtis Chapman
BeBe & CeCe Winans
Darrell Mansfield
1992Changed
John Johnson
Meekness
Wes King
The Violet Burning
Adrian Snell
Ben Okafor
Novella
Dan H
Lost Dogs
Going Classic
Rick Elias
Acappella
XT
Over the Rhine
Billy & Sarah Gaines
Margaret Becker
Oslo Gospel Choir
1993 Eden Burning
Perry & The Poor Boys
Novella
Over the Rhine
Legend
Blood Brothers
Kevin Prosch
Undercover
Vince Ebo
Keith Brown
The 77s
The Five Blind Boys of Alabama
The Prayer Chain
Anointed
Ralph van Manen
Iona
Martyn Joseph
Guardian
Bryan Duncan
1994Schulze
Sixpence None The Richer
Greg & Rebecca Sparks
Ashley Cleveland
Whitecross
Blues Jam (with Darrell Mansfield, Trace Balin, Julie Miller)
The Electrics
Pam Thum
Steve Taylor
Jerusalem
Julie Miller
Buddy Miller
Phil Keaggy
Newsboys
The World Wide Message Tribe
Nina Åström
Whiteheart
1995Millennium
No Buts
Randy Stonehill
65 dBA
Sunday's Child
Chris Lizotte
Jessy Dixon & Chicago Community Choir
Cauzin' Efekt
Blessed Rain
Imagine This
Bride
Quick and the Dead
Margaret Becker
One Hundred Days
Limit X
Third Day
Schulze
Eric Champion
The Prayer Chain
Over the Rhine
The World Wide Message Tribe
1996Why?
Sixpence None The Richer
Grits
65 dBA
Perry & The Poor Boys
Mike Roe
Split Level
Carolyn Arends
Quick and the Dead
Ralph van Manen
MIC
Tourniquet
Johnny Q. Public
Iona
Dance Experience (The World Wide Message Tribe, Cameron Dante, HOG, and others)
1997Die Päpste
Tess Wiley
Whitecross
David Fitzgerald
MIC
Why?
No Buts
Raze
Vigilantes of Love
Jerusalem
Dime Store Prophets
Switchfoot
Sarah Masen
Charlie Peacock
Over the Rhine
All Star United
1998 David & Carrie Grant
The Echoing Green
Darrell Mansfield
Beam
The Gospel Project
Audio Adrenaline
Halcyon Days
Three Crosses
Ralph van Manen
Raze
Delirious?
The Electrics
Stavesacre
Five Iron Frenzy
JC Culture
All Star United
Larry Norman & Beam
1999 Fono
The Potboilers
Kryptonite Garden
Stir
Three Crosses
MIC
W4C
Pete Stewart & Michael Tait
Split Level
Normal Generation?
Salt
Sonicflood
Smalltown Poets
Vigilantes of Love
The O.C. Supertones
Out of Eden
Lucky
Burlap To Cashmere
2000Eminent Child
Skypark
Phat Fish
ReLand
Kate Miner
Steve Scott
Plumb
Rick Altizer
Normal Generation?
Monk
A Ragamuffin Band
Glorybox
Kendall Payne
Luna Halo
KJ-52
Soapbox
John Reuben
Jennifer Knapp
The Violet Burning
The World Wide Message Tribe
2001Circadian Rhythm
Benjamin Gate
Jacob's Hip
MIC
Beam
Eminent Child
The Spirit That Guides Us
Cush
Kendall Payne
Switchfoot
Whisper Loud
Tourniquet
Bebo Norman
Luna Halo
Capewalk
Salvation Street
LaRue
Jeni Varnedeau
Shine
Earthsuit
The Violet Burning
2002Rodney Cordner and Jean-Pierre Rudolph
dBA
Blaise
Superchick
Paige
Newsboys
Ceilli Rain
Zober
The Spirit That Guides Us
Steve
Earthsuit
Thebandwithnoname
Yfriday
Selfmindead
Gospel Boulevard
Over the Rhine
Kevin Max
2003 Christafari
Cathy Burton
Extol
Verbs
East West
Blackstrap
Satellite 7
MIC
Jewels
The Prayer Chain
All Star United
SixStarHotel
Superhero
Trin-i-tee 5:7
Andy Hunter
Audio Adrenaline
2004Seeker's Planet
By The Tree
BarlowGirl
Rock 'n' Roll Worship Circus
The Spirit That Guides Us
Seventh Avenue
This Beautiful Mess
LA Symphony
Plumb
Andy Hunter
Rescate
The Electrics
Out of Eden
The Violet Burning
Jars of Clay
2005Beggars Fortune
Campsite
Seeker's Planet
John Davis
The Electrics
Onehundredhours
Narnia
Mars Ill
Superchick
Rock 'n' Roll Worship Circus (The Listening)
Zundapp
Day of Fire
4th Avenue Jones
Rivertribe
Newsboys
2006TheBandwithnoname
Superhero
Blindside
Matt Redman
Verra Cruz
Family Force 5
All Star United
Andy Hunter
Kees Kraayenoord
TBC
DJ Maj
The Violet Burning
Luna Halo
2007Disciple
Rebecca St. James
Michael W. Smith
Hillsong London
Christafari
This Beautiful Republic
Sarah Kelly
Chris Tomlin
Kees Kraayenoord & friends – 30 jaar Flevo
The Gentlemen
The Listening
Over the Rhine
Newsboys
2008Make up Your Mind
Starfield
The Elms
Project 86
Sixpence None the Richer
Tim Hughes
Fireflight
Stellar Kart
Tourniquet
Salvador
Sarah Kelly
Ruth
Flatfoot 56
The Gentlemen
MxPx
2009The Dazzled Prophet
Thousand Foot Krutch
Rebecca St. James
Neal Morse
Salvador
Bluetree
Addison Road
Octoberlight feat. MOJO (Supertones)
Fee
HB
Family Force 5
Parachute Band
Flatfoot 56
Philmont
Seabird
NewWorldSon
Newsboys
Superhero
2010Coen van den Heuvel
Children 18:3
Remedy Drive
The Listening
NewWorldSon
Rend Collective Experiment
Reilly
House of Heroes
The Gentlemen
People Get Ready
Stellar Kart
Pieter Daniel
Kutless
Trinity
The Afters
Anberlin
Leeland
2011Good Weather Forecast
Brian 'Head' Welch
Paper Route
Starfield
Gungor
Handsome Poets
Tenth Avenue North
Rapture Ruckus
Seabird
HB
The Convocation ft. Gospelflavor
Nikki
Run Kid Run
Abandon
LZ7
Red
2012 Andy Hunter
Newworldson
InSalvation
The RED17
Mike Mains & The Branches
The Almost
Lights
Newworldson
Trinity
Humming People
Icon For Hire
Hawk Nelson
Gungor
Family Force 5
André van Zyl
Kees Kraayenoord
Parachute Band

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