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Beats for Love in Ostrava
Beats for Love turns Ostrava's former Dolni Vitkovice ironworks into an electronic dance music festival each July, growing from 25,000 attendees across five stages in its 2013 debut to well over 150,000 across recent four-day editions with up to eighteen stages and more than 550 artists. It now ranks as the largest festival in the Czech Republic and Slovakia and one of Europe's biggest electronic music events.
Beats for Love began in 2013 in the same Dolni Vitkovice ironworks complex that hosts Colours of Ostrava, but built its identity around electronic dance music specifically: five stages, roughly two hundred artists and twenty-five thousand attendees in its debut year, a scale that already outpaced most new European festivals in their first edition.