Young rockers getting into the mood before the festival.
The MIDI Modern Music Festival, the oldest and biggest music festival in China, was held in Shenzhen’s Longgang Universiade Centre on May 17-19. Around 100,000 people attended, and it will continue to be held in the city for the next 5 years, according to Shenzhen No. 1.
A microblog was opened for the event on which photographs and footage have been shared.
Founded by the Beijing Midi School of Music, the festival has been held successfully in Beijing and Shanghai for 13 years. To celebrate the 20th anniversary of the school’s opening, this year’s festival was particularly big, coming to Shenzhen for the first time.
The person who uploaded this to Sina Weibo said the crowd looks even bigger than his snapshot suggests
Cui Jian, the father of Chinese rock, did a set, as did leading figures in other modern styles of music, such as jazz, electronic and hardcore.
The festival, at which rock and roll dreams never fail to come true, received support from the Longgang District Government, Jiazhaoye Group, as well as all the most influential media in the area.
A band called LTOS lap up praise from the adoring crowd.
You can see the (mostly young) crowd jump about to a performance of the song “Change Your Life” by Painful Yang here.