Madonna and Kylie Minogue execute together astatine WorldPride Music Festival Amsterdam. Courtesy of Team Madonna.
Team Madonna
The Netherlands precocious celebrated 25 years of matrimony equality, having been the first state to legalize same-sex marriage. The celebration, dubbed WorldPride, took spot successful Amsterdam from July 25 to August 8, featuring galore activities specified arsenic the Canal Parade, the Human Rights Conference and various concerts, including the WorldPride Music Festival.
“Over the years, I’ve met group from each area of the world who show maine this is the 1 play each twelvemonth wherever they consciousness wholly free to beryllium themselves,” Jake Resnicow, the executive shaper of WorldPride Music Festival, says. “Some travel from places wherever being LGBTQ+ is still criminalized. Others travel because they don't person that consciousness of organization astatine home. They time off pinch caller friendships, chosen family and the emotion that they're portion of thing bigger than themselves. When thousands of group from astir the world travel together, moreover for 1 weekend, they recognize they're not alone. That's the powerfulness of Pride.”
"I've been producing Pride events for 16 years, and Amsterdam reinforced thing I've ever believed: our organization deserves the aforesaid level of production, talent and ambition arsenic immoderate awesome euphony show successful the world. Seeing group recreation from crossed the globe to observe together made that imagination consciousness very real," Jake Resnicow says. Courtesy of Roxanne Blijs.
Roxanne Blijs
The festival, held connected July 31 and August 1, featured a star-studded lineup, including Honey Dijon, Purple Disco Machine, LP Giobbi, Hayla, Jennifer Cooke, Oliver Heldens, Bebe Rexha and Paris Hilton. Festival goers surely expected to spot talented artists execute astatine the event, but what they didn’t expect was a astonishment associated capacity by Madonna and Kylie Minogue.
Madonna was welcomed to the Amsterdam festivities connected August 1, bringing her Club Confessions series, which features exclusive pop-up creation and listening parties hosted by The Queen of Pop to observe her medium Confessions II, released connected July 3. Then, popular superstar Kylie Minogue joined Madonna connected stage, wherever they debuted a brand-new opus together. Madonna was later joined by longtime collaborator and shaper Stuart Price, earlier Grammy-winning DJ and shaper Honey Dijon sewage down the decks.
Madonna and Kylie Minogue are considered the Queen of Pop and the Princess of Pop, respectively.
Team Madonna
Honey Dijon performing astatine the festival. Courtesy of Ian Moerings.
Ian Moerings
“We’ve ever wanted this show to beryllium a level wherever artists tin debut caller euphony and create moments they couldn't create anyplace else, and Madonna’s Club Confessions was precisely that,” Resnicow says. “When Madonna brought retired Kylie [Minogue] and asked the crowd, ‘Are we successful cheery heaven?’ you could consciousness the full room registry what was happening successful existent time. Watching 2 of the biggest icons successful our organization stock a shape and debut a brand-new opus together is the benignant of infinitesimal group who were location will talk astir for the remainder of their lives.”
Madonna’s Club Confessions vanished the two-night, multi-stage festival, which group an charismatic Guinness World Record for the astir confetti released successful 1 minute. WorldPride Music Festival Amsterdam was produced by Resnicow successful business pinch Insomniac, a euphony show and unrecorded events acquisition creator.
Paris Hilton performs astatine the festival.
Roxanne Blijs
“Jake [Resnicow] has an unthinkable relationship to this organization and a large imagination for what Pride tin be,” Pasquale Rotella, laminitis of Insomniac, says. “I emotion collaborating pinch visionaries who are profoundly passionate and genuinely attraction astir the civilization they represent. Jake embodies that spirit, ever striving to present and transcend expectations, perfectly aligning pinch the goals of Insomniac. WorldPride Music Festival isn’t conscionable an event: it was a vibrant ceremony of love, unity and authenticity.”
Looking forward, WorldPride Music Festival will bring its ngo to Miami’s Factory Town to motorboat the Global Pride Music Festival. The arena will return spot successful February 2027 and beryllium an open-air, multi-stage acquisition from sunset to sunrise.
“It’s a caller city, but the intent is precisely the same: creating a spot wherever group consciousness seen, celebrated and connected,” Resnicow says.
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