MEO Sudoeste

The Sudoeste Festival (Portuguese pronunciation: [suˈðwɛʃtɨ]), currently named MEO Sudoeste for sponsorship reasons, is a music festival that takes places annually since 1997, in August, in Odemira, in the southwest of Portugal.

It is organized by live entertainment company Música no Coração and is currently sponsored by the Portuguese telecommunications company MEO.

Over the years, it has featured a considerable variety of headliners, such as Anitta, Marilyn Manson, Blur, Sonic Youth, The Cure, UB40, Massive Attack, Kraftwerk, Oasis, Daft Punk, Björk, Faith No More, Snoop Dogg and Kanye West.

In the early 2010s, it gradually changed its musical focus to mainly hip-hop, mainstream pop and electronic dance music.

The first edition of the Sudoeste Festival happened on 8, 9 and 10 August 1997.

[1] The fourth edition took place on 4, 5 and 6 August 2000.

The fifth edition was the first with a duration of 4 days, taking place between 2 and 5 August 2001.

[2] The sixth edition took place between 1 and 4 August 2002.

[3] The seventh edition took place between 7 and 10 August 2003.

[7] On 9 August, Wet Bed Gang and KURA replaced Hardwell, which cancelled his performance due to sickness.

All the stages of the Sudoeste Festival, in 2007