Paredes De Coura Festival
The town is internationally famous for the Paredes de Coura summer rock festival. In the past years, the festival has seen performances from bands such as:
- Sonic Youth
- Gogol Bordello
- Pixies
- Foo Fighters
- The Mars Volta
- Breed 77
- Queens of the Stone Age
- Bloc Party
- Yeah Yeah Yeahs
- Sum 41
- Morrissey
- We Are Scientists
- Hot Hot Heat
- !!!
- Placebo
- PJ Harvey
- Nick Cave
- The Arcade Fire
- Broken Social Scene
- Bauhaus
- Red House Painters
- Tindersticks
- Divine Comedy
- dEUS
- Suede
- Mogwai
- Sparta
- Death from Above 1979
- Yo La Tengo
- Coldplay
- Morcheeba
- Papa Roach
- 3 Doors Down
- Stone Temple Pilots
- Korn
- Incubus
- Puddle of Mudd
- Motörhead
- Black Rebel Motorcycle Club
- Kaiser Chiefs, among others.
The 2005 edition brought approximately 30,000 people from all around Europe to attend the festival.
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