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Discover the flexibility of ticket payment options for Sunny Hill Festival this summer and get your ticket to one of the largest music festivals in Europe. Tickets for Sunny Hill Festival 2025 can now be purchased in the way that suits you best - purchase in 10 to 12 installments, purchase online, physically or even in packages with accommodation.

So you won't miss this year's edition of Sunny Hill Festival, which promises to be the biggest ever, bringing together the world's most iconic stars and the most beloved local artists. From August 1st to 3rd, the festival's two giant stages will feature some of the biggest names ever: Dua Lipa, Shawn Mendes, Fatboy Slim, Peggy Gou, Anyma, and Mochakk. But the list of artists doesn't end there.

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Primavera Sound, Rock Werchter, and Dua Lipa’s festival have all been nominated for the European Festival Awards 2024. The nominations come alongside the announcement that Finnish music promoter Juhani Merimaa will win the lifetime achievement award, ahead of the ceremony in January.

Ahead of its 14th edition, nominations have been announced for the 2024 European Festival Awards. Over 50,000 votes have been cast to whittle down the nominees across 13 categories.

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This year, world pop star Dua Lipa will be the headliner at the fifth edition of the “Sunny Hill” festival in Pristina. As part of her “Radical Optimism” world tour, she will also stop by the festival founded by her father, Dukagjin Lipa. The singer herself announced the news on social media, after fans shared the list of places where she will perform during the tour. “I think the secret has been revealed. ‘Sunny Hill Festival’, see you there,” she wrote.

Read more here: https://www.koha.net/en/kulture/dua-lipa-se-le-prishtinen-jashte-turneut-boteror-radical-optimism

Following Dua Lipa, on the C4 stage, Fatboy Slim – the legend of electronic music and winner of 6 MTV Video Music Awards – will perform. With his energy, he will bring entertainment until the early hours of the morning.

On August 2, for the first time in Kosovo, world star Shawn Mendes is coming! Winner of the “MTV Europe Music Awards” and one of the most recognizable voices in world pop, he has filled arenas such as “O2” in London and “Madison Square Garden” in New York. His performance at “Rock in Rio” in front of over 100 thousand people is just one example of the magic that Shawn Mendes brings to the stage.

Read more here: https://telegrafi.com/en/Full-line-up-for-Sunny-Hill-Festival-2025-revealed--Shawn-Mendes--Fatboy-Slim-and-Anyma-join-big-stars-coming-to-Kosovo/

Shawn Mendes is back on tour and has announced North American dates for his “On The Road Again” tour, which kicks off in September 2025 in Boston.

The Canadian pop singer will hit the U.S. and Canada leg of the tour on September 25 at TD Garden in Boston. Fans can shop for tickets using reliable third-party ticket sellers like StubHub, VividSeats and SeatGeek as well as Ticketmaster.

Read more here: https://www.masslive.com/live-entertainment/2025/06/shawn-mendes-2025-tour-coming-to-boston-where-to-buy-tickets-online.html

Dua Lipa is preparing for two huge Wembley Stadium shows this weekend (June 20-21).

The Radical Optimism World Tour also includes dates at Anfield Stadium (June 24-25) and Dublin’s Aviva Stadium (June 27). It follows Dua Lipa’s Glastonbury headline performance in 2024.

“In 2022, we had the Future Nostalgia shows and they were just phenomenal and since then we’ve been thinking, ‘How can we continuously grow and adapt and elevate what a Dua Lipa show can look like?’” he said. “Dua has an incredible presence and makes these huge places feel very intimate, she retains that connection with the audience. With the demand for the shows, stadiums were the next step, a perfect home for Dua.”

Read more here: https://www.musicweek.com/live/read/ahead-of-wembley-dates-dua-lipa-s-manager-and-father-dugi-lipa-on-live-ambitions-for-the-uk-star/092159

If you could spot Earth from the galactic retro ride pictured on Dua Lipa’s Future Nostalgia album cover, and zoomed through space toward Europe, then south to Croatia, and further to the heart of the Balkans, there, in Pristina, Kosovo, on a sweet summer night in August, you would find Dua Lipa stepping out onto stage—at home.

It’s possible, too, you would glean the screams of the crowd, the energy extending far beyond the lush beech tree hood of Germia Park as Lipa’s performance kicked off the return of the Sunny Hill Festival, created by her father, Dukagjin Lipa, in 2018, and postponed the following two years due to COVID. Still, the crowd’s joy stemmed from emotions deeper than any typical post-pandemic release: Dua Lipa and the festival serve as reminders to young Kosovars that the future is theirs, and that Lipa—and the world—can hear them. 

For more details, please read the full article at: https://www.elle.com/culture/music/a40982955/dua-lipa-kosovo-youth-impact/

Last night, Dua Lipa performed at her Sunny Hill Festival in Pristina, Kosovo, which is founded by Lipa and her father, Dukagjin Lipa. (The music festival is one of Kosovo’s largest, and this year it featured performers such as J Balvin and Diplo). “Coming home to perform in Kosovo is always such a special moment for me,” Lipa tells Vogue. For her turn on the stage, Lipa shed the black Mugler bodysuits she’s been sporting on her Future Nostalgia tour in favor of a pretty in pink look by Valentino.

For more details, please read the full article at:

https://www.vogue.com/article/dua-lipa-valentino-sunny-hill-festival

The most prestigious music event in Kosovo, Sunny Hill Festival is also undoubtedly Southeast Europe’s most significant festival because of its outstanding headliners! The prices and the headliners are yet to be announced, however this event is considered by many as a must-see location and must-go concert for culture enthusiasts. In a previous iteration of the event, stars including Dua Lipa, Miley Cyrus, J Balvin, Calvin Harris, Martin Garrix, Afrojack, Hardwell, and many others performed, along with well-known foreign and up-and-coming local artists.

For more details, please read the full article at: https://themusicessentials.com/editorials/summer-2023-concerts/

We are excited to announce the preparations for our grand return to Prishtina, where we are establishing our new and permanent home. Our aim is to ensure that festival-goers experience nothing short of the excellence they expect and deserve.

As part of the festival's commitment to the community, we are investing in the construction of a public park for citizens, accessible throughout the year. The initial phase involved clearing and leveling the terrain. Presently, we are in the process of landscaping, which includes planting hundreds of trees and incorporating other essential elements.
For more details, please read the full article at: https://prishtinainsight.com/sunny-hill-festival-grand-return-in-prishtina/

The online sale of the first tickets for the new edition of the "Sunny Hill" festival, which will be held at the end of July in Pristina, has started. According to the organizers, this year's edition "will be the biggest ever". For the first time, this festival will be held in Bërnica e Poshtme, in the new space dedicated to the festival. The first tickets have a price of 100 euros.
For more details, please read the full article at: https://www.koha.net/en/culture/411160/The-first-tickets-for-the-biggest-edition-of-the-Sunny-Hill-Festival-are-on-sale/

Kosovo’s central government and authorities in the capital joined forces on Monday (June 20) to bring back home an international music festival founded by the father of singer-songwriter Dua Lipa, which had been moved following a dispute with its organizers.

A joint statement from the Culture Ministry and the Pristina municipality on Monday said they have agreed to hold this year’s edition at a location in Pristina — “where it belongs” — and also to continue to discuss holding the festival at its usual location starting from next year.

A special edition with a different lineup of artists will be held in the Albanian capital, Tirana, Aug. 26-28.

For more details, please read the full article at: https://www.billboard.com/music/music-news/dua-lipa-father-sunny-hill-festival-kosovo-1235090346/

2022 may have been a disorganized and chaotic mess from start to finish, but on the plus side – music festivals are back! The European festival scene came roaring into this summer for the first time since 2019 and I couldn’t have been happier to see the industry recovery.

I started off the summer with a return to the first festival I ever attended in Europe and an insane double weekend of indie rock. Then it was off camping in the English countryside for a UK interpretation of Americana, a pretty lake in Macedonia, a mega-festival in Madrid, and a volcano in the middle of the Atlantic. I dropped into Kosovo for the first time to see a festival put on by Dua Lipa’s father, dipped into Albania to cover our first ever festival in that country (also put on by Dua Lipa’s father), hit up the iconic Olympic Stadium in Munich, and finished the season back home in New England for a first-year fest.

Along the way, I took 35,000+ photos and wrote a few articles about the season. Enjoy and hopefully we will have even more for you in 2023!

Festival #1: Primavera Sound (Two Weekends!)

Barcelona, Spain

Double The Fun: The Scene @ Primavera Sound 2022

The Highs and Lows of Primavera Sound 2022 Weekend #1

Highlights From Weekend #2 of Primavera Sound 2002

Photo Gallery: 100+ Photos From Primavera Sound’s 1st Weekend Back!

Primavera Sound 2022 Weekend #2 Photo Gallery

Photo Gallery: The People of Primavera Sound 2022

Festival #2: Black Deer Festival

Royal Tunbridge Wells, UK

Americana In The UK: The Scene @ Black Deer Festival 2022

Photo Gallery: Kicking It Up @ Black Deer Festival 2022

Photo Gallery: The Vibe @ Black Deer Festival 2022

Festival #3: D Festival

Dorjan, Macedonia

Chilling On The Lake: The Scene @ D Festival 2022

Photo Gallery: Feeling The Love @ D Festival 2022

Festival #4: Mad Cool Festival

Madrid, Spain

Summertime in Spain: The Scene @ Mad Cool Festival 2022

Photo Gallery: Even More Music @ Mad Cool Festival 2022

Photo Gallery: Magical Moments @ Mad Cool Festival Part #1

Photo Gallery: The Atmosphere and Festies of Mad Cool Festival 2022

Festival #5: Sunny Hill Festival

Pristina, Kosovo

Party in Pristina: The Scene @ Sunny Hill Festival 2022

Fun and Faces @ Sunny Hill Festival 2022 (Pristina, Kosovo)

Festival #6: Atlantis Concert For Earth

The Azores, Portugal

Conservation Rocks: The Scene @ Atlantis Concert For Earth 2022

Into The Volcano @ Atlantis Concert For Earth 2022 (Photo Gallery)

Festival #7: Sunny Hill Festival

Tirana, Albania

Festivalling in Albania: The Scene @ Sunny Hill Tirana 2022

Put Your Hands Up @ Sunny Hill Festival (Tirana, Albania)

Festival #8: Superbloom Festival

Munich, Germany

The Scene @ Superbloom Munich 2022

The Super Vibe @ Superbloom Festival 2022 (Photo Gallery)

The Second Day Blowout @ Superbloom Festival 2022

Celebrating Summer’s End @ Superbloom Festival 2022

Festival #9: Sound on Sound

Bridgeport, USA

Sunshine, Showers, and The Scene @ Sound on Sound 2022

A Sunny Saturday @ Sound on Sound Festival 2022 (Photo Gallery)

A Star-Filled Sunday @ Sound on Sound 2022 (Photo Gallery)

Written By Vito Valentinetti

Born during a backstage Bonnaroo downpour, Vito's mission in life is to dance, write, and travel to all the great festivals that this wide world has to offer.

Today Dua Lipa, along with her manager Dukagjin Lipa, announced they will join the ESNS conference lineup on January 21st. As co-founders of the acclaimed Sunny Hill Festival, the global pop superstar and her father will be joined by IQ Magazine editor Gordon Masson for a keynote interview as part the festival’s conference program in Groningen. Sunny Hill Festival is shortlisted for Best Medium Sized Festival (Prishtina) and the Best New Festival (Tirana) at this year’s European Festival Awards.

Sunny Hill Festival is becoming one of the biggest music festivals in the region, hosting more than 140,000 music lovers from around the world. The festival has brought a stellar lineup of some of the best-known performers of our time to the pair's home country – including Dua Lipa, Miley Cyrus, J Balvin, Diplo, DJ Regard, Meduza, Calvin Harris, Martin Garrix, Stormzy, Skepta, AJ Tracey, Action Bronson, Grace Carter, Fedez, Mahmood, SG Lewis, Gashi, Bondax, KarmaKid, and many more regional and international artists and performers.

In 2022 Sunny Hill Festival reclaimed the spotlight of local and global attention announcing a new edition of the festival taking place in Tirana, creating a powerful progressive motion in both countries economic, touristic and cultural development.

Alongside the festival, the Sunny Hill Foundation was founded by Dua and Dukagjin as a cultural organisation with the simple mission to be a helping hand for the most vulnerable and in-need parts of the Kosovan community and help young talents thrive. Together they have built a Sunny Hill Kindergarten in Tirana, in neighbouring Albania, for 300 underprivileged children after an earthquake hit that country in 2019, and financially supported music schools while managing other music related projects in the Lipa’s native Kosovo.

Dua Lipa is one of the world’s biggest superstars, solidifying her position as both a critical success and top radio performer with the release of her Grammy award-winning #1 UK sophomore album Future Nostalgia in 2020. In the last year Dua launched Service95, a global style, culture, and society editorial platform, and the accompanying podcast, Dua Lipa: At Your Service, which features thoughtful conversations with high-profile guests from fellow performers and artists to authors and activists.

Dukagjin Lipa is an entrepreneur and marketing and communications expert with over 25 years of experience. His accomplishments throughout the years in various marketing communications and creative industry partnerships paved the way to establishing his own communications agency, Republika Communications, representing some of the main household names, locally and internationally across different industries while heavily concentrating on international music and entertainment.ESNS, the key exchange platform for emerging European music talent, will take place from 18 to 21 January 2023 in Groningen, the Netherlands. The festival has proven essential in breaking new European acts into live music scenes throughout Europe and beyond. With a line-up of 290 emerging European artists, ESNS23 is the place to discover new breakthrough acts before they make it big. You heard it first at ESNS!

Find more information about the full conference programme at esns.nl/conference

Our dearest friends,

Your summer love, Sunny Hill Festival, has been nominated by the European Festival Awards 2022 in two categories: 
- Best New Festival (for the Tirana Edition) and 
- Best Medium-Sized Festival (Pristina Edition).

Now you can play your part! Let’s show the world that your summer memories with our Pristina and Tirana editions were really worth it.

Vote and spread the word. Sunny Hill Festival needs all your love and support. Let’s make it count - every vote matters.

VOTE in 3 simple steps:
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Vote in questions no. 2 and no. 5,
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Although she's already a singer, songwriter, and even a model from time to time, on Friday, Dua Lipa added yet another accolade to her list. Read Full Article https://www.popsugar.com/entertainment/dua-lipa-honorary-ambassador-kosovo-48910891

In a forested park high above the city of Pristina, the annual Sunny Hill Festival is a major cultural event of the Kosovo summer season. Organized by Dua Lipa and her father, Dukagjin Lipa, Sunny Hill featured four days of major international artists along with the best musical acts of the region. 

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Last Friday afternoon, Dukagjin Lipa, 49, sat backstage at Kosovo’s first major music festival, bleary-eyed and trying to ignore the two cellphones ringing on the table in front of him.

Read the full article at The New York Times.

Some countries celebrated Father’s Day this past weekend, but it’s probably Father’s Day everyday in the Lipa household.

Readh the full article at StudentEdge.

Joined by Martin Garrix, Action Bronson and a slew of other Kosovar and international artists, Dua Lipa is set to perform in Prishtina in the first edition of the Sunny Hill Festival this August.

Read the full article at Prishtina Insight.

Dua's parents hail from Prishtina, Kosovo and now Dua Lipa is heading to her homeland to headline a Summer festival set-up by her day in the capital. 

Read the full article at SpinSouthWest.

Il papà di Dua Lipa è riuscito a organizzare un festival musicale in Kosovo, luogo dove ha origine la sua famiglia, per rilanciare culturalmente e turisticamente l'area.

Read the full article at MTV Italy.

The father of pop singer Dua Lipa is organizing the Sunny Hill Festival in the family’s native Kosovo featuring Dua Lipa, American rapper/TV host Action Bronson and a mystery headliner at Germia National Park in the city of Prishtina Aug. 10-12.

Read the full article at Pollstar.

Kosovo is overwhelmed by political scandals, corruption, high unemployment, and – probably the most annoying for "the youngest Europeans" – isolation from the rest of Europe.

And yet, like in the rest of the Balkans, citizens have no expectations for the political class to do anything about it. Kosovars' only joy is to listen to world-renowned singers – and, from this point of view, Kosovo is pretty lucky, since some of “its” girls and boys are breaking the world charts. While politicians appear not to care about people's feelings, the artists’ community does.

Read the full article at BalcanCaucaso.

Kosovo-born music star Dua Lipa recently headlined at a three-day music-festival in Pristina, which donated 25% of ticket proceedings to Sunny Hill Foundation.

Read the full article at Giving Balkans.

Sunny Hill Foundation is a charitable foundation in Pristina, founded by singer Dua Lipa. This foundation will host the Sunny Hill festival in Pristina, where performers are expected to perform world-famous artists, as well as Albanian artists.

Read the full article at Classic Lifestyle.

Sunny Hill Festival će biti održan od 10. do 12. kolovoza i to će biti najveći festival ikada organiziran u Prištini, odnosno na Kosovu.

Read the full article at Music Box.

If you happen to find yourself in South East Europe this August, or to be more precise, Kosova then Dua Lipa’s going to be headlining a festival organised by her dad, Dukagjin Lipa because this family is incredibly powerful.

Read the full article at Pedestrian.

Read the full article at Nacionrex.

Dua Lipa's father has always dreamed of organizing a music fesitval in his home of Prishtina, Kosova, to "put Kosova on the map culturally," according to Dua.

Read the full article at The Fader.

A new musical experience has just emerged in the festival world and is about to put Kosovo on the map. Sunny Hill Festival is a three-day event that will take place from August 10-12 in the town of Prishtina, Kosovo.

Read the full article at Festival Squad.

Der Vater von Dua Lipa, Dukagjin, hat im Kosovo sein eigenes Festival ins Leben gerufen – und das für einen guten Zweck. 25 Prozent der Einnahme des SunnyHill Festivals in Pristina gehen nämlich an die SunnyHill-Organisation, deren Schutzherr die Sängerin ist.

Read the full article at LooMee TV.

Gemeinsam mit ihrem Vater hat die “One Kiss”-Interpretin nun ihr erstes eigenes Festival in ihrem Heimatland auf die Beine gestellt und macht Werbung für das Event.

Read the full article at BIG FM.

Dua Lipa's father, Dukagjin Lipa, has organized a music festival in his hometown of Prishtina, Kosova. He has always dreamed of having a music festival to "put Kosova on the map culturally," says Dua. After making his dream a reality, Sunnyhill Festival will headline Dua Lipa and Action Bronson with more performers to be announced by July 17.

Read the full article at MisBish.

English-born but proudly Kosovan pop star Dua Lipa is set to headline the Sunny Hill Music Festival in Prishtina on August 10, the biggest music festival ever to take place in Europe’s youngest country, which celebrated 10 years of independence in February.

Read the full article at Emerging Europe.

Dua Lipa is set to headline a three day festival that her actual Dad is organising, and there's another huge mystery headliner with a whole of speculation around!

As if we didn't love Dua Lipa enough already, she has announced she is teaming up with her Dad, Dukagjin Lipa, to set up a three day music music festival called 'Sunny Hill Festival'.

Read the full article at Capital FM.

Dua Lipas Vater hat ein Festival im Kosovo organisiert, das dem Land kulturelle Impulse geben soll.
Die ‘Be The One’-Sängerin wurde zwar in London geboren, ihre Eltern stammen jedoch aus der kosovarischen Hauptstadt Pristina.

Read the full article at Viply.de

The SunnyHill Festival is set to take place in August in Dua’s hometown of Prishtina in Kosovo, and the singer has naturally been called on to be the headline act.

Read the full article at Metro UK.

Dua Lipa, the 23-year-old British-Albanian singer and songwriter has taken the world of pop by storm. Her self-titled debut album blasted out no less than six hit singles.

Read the full article at ABC News.

Absolute powerhouse Dua Lipa has received the first-ever key to the city of Prishtina, Kosova – the artist’s hometown where she spent a good chunk of her life after the family moved there from London in 2008.

Read the full article at Pedestrian TV.

Dua Lipa has been honoured in a huge way by Kosovo.

The ‘One Kiss’ superstar has close ties with Kosovo as her parents are Albanian and she lived there for a few years in her teens, and she has now been given a key to her hometown.

This weekend she has returned to host her very own festival, which she has launched with her dad Dukagjin Lipa, that she is also headlining.

Read the full article at MTV UK.

Dukagjin Lipa had long wanted to organise a “proper festival” in his native Kosovo to put it on the cultural map and prove that Europe’s newest nation could be defined by more than conflict and scandal.

His task became much easier when his daughter, Dua Lipa, shot to global fame last year with her no 1 hit New Rules.

Read the full article at The Guardian.

Dua Lipa‘s dad is organising his own music festival, with the first edition to take place this summer.

Sunnyhill Festival will take place in Prishtina, Kosovo – the singer’s hometown – between August 10-12.

Read the full article at NME Website