Vinjerock is a rock festival held each summer at 1060 meters above sea level, at

Eidsbugarden Eidsbugarden is a tourist center which lies at the western end of Lake Bygdin in the Jotunheimen mountain range on the outskirts of Jotunheim National Park in Innlandet, Norway. Eidsbugarden lies to the southeast in Jotunheim. A memorial was rai ...

in the

Jotunheimen Jotunheimen (; "the home of the Jötunn") is a mountainous area of roughly in southern Norway and is part of the long range known as the Scandinavian Mountains. The 29 highest mountains in Norway are all located in the Jotunheimen mountains, in ...

area in southern Norway. The festival was arranged for the first time on 4 and 5 August 2006, with artists as

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, Minor Majority and The Blackbirds on stage. In 2007 artists like

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and

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played at the festival. Vinjerock got its name from the famous Norwegian poet,

Aasmund Olavsson Vinje Aasmund Olavsson Vinje (6 April 1818 – 30 July 1870) was a Norwegian poet and journalist who is remembered for poetry, travel writing, and his pioneering use of Landsmål (now known as Nynorsk). Background Vinje was born into a poor but w ...

, who built the first cabin at

, and gave the surrounding mountains their name,

. There was not a festival in 2011. To allow the grounds to be expanded thus protecting the vulnerable mountain nature of the area, the organizers received funds in 2008 earmarked the establishment of a park on the banks if the river

Bygdin Bygdin is a lake in Vang Municipality in Innlandet county, Norway. The is located in the southern part of the Jotunheimen mountain range. The long, narrow mountain lake is located between the large lakes Tyin (to the west) and Vinstre to the ea ...

. A festival took place between 19 - 21 July 2012. In addition, the 2019 festival took place July 18, 2019 – July 20, 2019 and included ten bands playing a set list of 10-14 songs per band.

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