Sunburn Festival

Sunburn Festival
Sunburn Festival Goa
Genre	Electronic Dance, Trance, House, Dubstep, Tech house, Future House, Trap music, Progressive house, psychedelic trance
Dates	4th to 6th February
Location(s)	Kesnand, Dist. Pune, Maharashtra (2016), Vagator, Goa, India
Years active	2007 - Present
Website
sunburn.in

Sunburn is a commercial EDM (electronic dance music) Festival held in the hills of Kesnand, Pune. It was previously in Vagator, Goa, India every year. It is Asia's largest music festival. The festival is an amalgamation of Music, Entertainment, Food and Shopping, and was ranked by CNN in 2009 as one of the Top 10 Festivals in world . The Festival is organized by Percept company owned by Shailendra Singh . Spread over 4 days, the festival has multiple stages with artists playing simultaneously.

Electronic music parties/events/festivals are not new to Goa and much earlier pioneers of free party's/events/festivals with live DJ's mixing, art,craft's and food stalls started in the late 1980s and continued through all of the 1990s into the early 2000s where they played Goa trance, Psychedelic trance, and Techno and were held at Vagator Beach, Anjuna beach and Arambol beach. The arrival of commercialized events such as Sunburn arrived in Goa when mainstream EDM gained more widespread popularity within India.

In 2007, Nikhil Chinapa organized the first International Dance Music Festival in Goa, India. Sunburn Goa 2007 was sponsored by Smirnoff and took place on December 28–29 at Candolim Beach. In its first year Sunburn included performances from Carl Cox, Above & Beyond and Axwell as headline acts. Other acts included John 00 Fleming, Pete Gooding, DJ Pearl, Jalebee Cartel, Super 8 & Tab, held on two stages with DJ's playing simultaneously. The festival was hosted by Nikhil Chinapa and Rohit Barker. The line-up announcement and early bird passes commenced during the end of October.