Farewell to the Melt Festival: Last edition on Ferropolis grounds announced

For fans of the Melt music festival at the former open-cast mining site Ferropolis in Saxony-Anhalt, it's time to say goodbye this summer. It will take place for the last time this year, the festival organizers announced on social media and on their website on Thursday. "Due to various factors, we are unfortunately unable to continue the festival." No further details on the reasons were given.

The festival has been running since 1997, and since 1999 the Ferropolis site of a former open-cast lignite mine near Gräfenhainichen (Wittenberg district) with its disused excavators has served as the backdrop.

For the last time, festival fans can dance at Melt in the "excavator town" from July 11 to 13. The announced acts include British pop trio Sugababes, German electro producer DJ Koze, Domiziana ("Ohne Benzin") and Paula Hartmann ("DLIT (die Liebe ist tot)"). Before the corona pandemic, Melt attendance was around 25,000.