Roskilde Festival is held south of Roskilde in Denmark and is one of the two biggest annual rock music festivals in Europe. It was created in 1971 by two high school students, Mogens Sandfær and Jesper Switzer Moller, and promoter Carl Fischer. In 1973, the festival was taken over by the Roskilde Foundation, who has since run the festival as a non-profit organization for development and support of music, culture, and humanism.
