Dear Zappanale fans,

here are further information about ZAPPANALE # 30.5.

Here is what you need for the “virtual Zappanale”:

A screen, laptop, smartphone or a cinema screen and an internet connection.

Get enough drinks, food to have enough energy for 4 days of Zappanale, good friends (of course in accordance with the pandemic regulations) and be prepared for a long Zappanale weekend.

We have so much excellent video stuff that we can want to start with the "Warm up" event already on Thursday, July 16, 2020, at 10 a.m. (Europe / Berlin, CEST) at: www.zappanale.de

We will start with the special events from the exhibition of the last 11 years and shows from our virtual “Kamp Stage”.

From 17 – 19 July (Friday – Sunday) to 07/19/2020 we will start our program from the “virtual racetrack” from 10:00 (Europe / Berlin, CEST) until late at night in the livestream with many completely new contributions and the best shows from previous Zappanales.

In addition to the livestream there will be an optional opportunity of demanding selected concerts individually

What else is going on?

You can visit the dealers online, some dealers made their own contribution especially for you.

You can also visit virtually the exhibition (including a large number of special events) in which happens to be usually above “Joe's Garage” in Bad Doberan, . Robert is going to make this possible for you at home.

We will inform you about the detailed time schedule and lineup within in the next few days.

Music is the best!

Your Zappanale Team

Dear Zappanale fans!

That‘s right, you heard right: Zappanale will happen. However, due to the pandemic, not in the usual way, but as an "online festival". So you don't have to go away empty-handed this year. The Zappanale team is working on an “online version” of the festival. The grounds can be visited virtually, concerts take place on both stages. World stars such as George Duke, Jean-Luc Ponty and Alice Cooper have already come and gone here, but volunteers from the audience made their big appearance too.

The virtual Zappanale is supplemented by current contributions from this year. The beer stand, dealer stands, arf shop, arf tent and the exhibition will also be opened virtually. Die-hard fans will be able to experience the longed-for “zappaesque” weekend. Everyone else has the opportunity to get to know the Zappanale.

Some fans still want to spend their planned vacation an the Baltic Sea during the "Zappanale period". We would like to point out that we have NO permit to camp on the site this year. Currently there is a drive-in cinema on the "Suncamp". So if you come to the Baltic Sea for camping, please remember to take care of a camping site or parking space for your motorhome at some other location.

Of course, the postponement of the festival is something we have never had to deal with and financially we will not be able to get away with it, but the Zappanale will survive this crisis. Nevertheless, we have costs that have arisen and continue to arise.

We will remain in the festival market, we have promised to continue until we are older than the GDR  The planned program with Dweezil Zappa, John McLaughlin, Mike Keneally and many others is now to take place in the summer of 2021.

As announced in our last newsletter and on social networks, the 2020 tickets will remain valid for 2021 and will not be exchanged for cost reasons. The ticket prices will remain for the time being. Some bands have already confirmed for 2021, recently Mike Keneally. Dweezil had already expressed his interest when he canceled the European tour.

We are curious in every aspect what changes to the festival landscape are to be expected. The festival suppliers will raise their prices to compensate for the losses they have suffered (we have already received the first announcements) and the conditions for festivals will certainly be challenging us. We are the only festival that offers special prices to Hartz IV recipients and socially disadvantaged in order to grant all fans access to the Zappanale. In individual cases this goes up to a one-time free visit in cases of hardship. The Zappanale is also characterized by a community in which the financially better-off visitors support other, socially disadvantaged visitors.

A few festival visitors have already offered to waive their tickets. We were very happy about it. If you have any plans for this, please contact us at

tracy.office@arf-society.de.

We have also been asked about financial support options.

You can support the Zappanale by

Account: MC Veranstaltungsservice/Zappanale

IBAN: DE41 1305 0000 0200 0131 30

Reference „Zappanale“ PayPal to zappanale.de ArfShop We will also have a limited collection of Zappanale #30.5 t-shirts produced. This t-shirt is intended as a special support for the festival, so the price is 80, - €/pc.