The festival was held for the first time in 1972 in Ljubljana, and for the last time in 1978 in Novi Sad.
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The first edition of the festival was held in during April 21 and 22, 1972, in Tivoli Hall in Ljubljana, SR Slovenia.
Idanha-a-Nova has hosted the massive biannual Boom Festival since 2002, during which the population of the community temporarily increases more than fivefold.
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GoDA was founded in 1947 as a response to the growing dissatisfaction about standards of adjudication in the boom festival years after World War II with an editorial in the magazine Amateur Stage providing the impetus for its establishment.