These are PLX in Tjärö, Uppsala Reggae Festival, Kiruna Festival, Sweden Rock and Big Slap in Malmö.

Some are waiting to release tickets, but several have already booked artists.

Big Slap in Malmö usually has 45,000 visitors over three days, and plans for that again this year.

- We plan exactly as we did before and assume that there is no corona pandemic.

You have to be able to book artists even now for the summer, says Ali Eftekhari, co-founder of Big Slap.

Hoping for a vaccine

In order for the festival to be possible, the festival management hopes above all for a vaccine for the public before the summer.

Quick tests and corona passes - a certificate that the visitor is healthy - may also be relevant.

- We are looking at alternatives to corona-secure events.

We believe somewhere that the vaccine will come out and allow us to run at full capacity.

It does not work to drive 50 percent, our industry does not support it, says Ali Eftekhari.

Is it realistic to plan for a festival next summer?

- The alternative is that we close down the whole of 2021, which means that the entire industry, which has ensured that hundreds of thousands of people in Sweden alone have received entertainment during the summer, dies.

That option does not exist in my world, says Ali Eftekhari.

Already released artists

Sweden Rock plans to carry out the festival but follows the government's guidelines. 

"Almost all of our bands have already been released some time ago," writes Deputy CEO Sofia Lindqvist Lacinai in an email to Kulturnyheterna.

For the organizers of PLX in Tjärö, the plan was to release tickets in December, but due to stricter restrictions, they chose to wait until after the turn of the year.

“The plan is that we start from a potential 500 limit and continue to have a dialogue about this.

Potential and confirmed artists have already been contacted ", says Johan Fogde Dias.

Uppsala Reggae Festival and Kiruna Festival plan to release new artists but are waiting until after New Year.

"But we continue to work based on the hope that it will be safe and secure to make arrangements for the summer," writes Alex Olofsson, Kiruna Festival's general.