MUSIC NEWS - Promoters for the ULTRA MUSIC FESTIVAL (UMF); the world’s leading two-day electronic and alternative music experience, have released initial details of their line-up for the festival’s 12th annual installment. The event's set for Friday, March 26 & Saturday, March 27 at Bicentennial Park in downtown Miami, FL (the official closing event of the 25th Anniversary Winter Music Conference), and will be the only place to experience a vast number of exclusive artist performances this year.
UMF 2010 is thrilled to haveTiësto--who will return to the USA for the first time since his sold-out tour in support of his 2009 album Kaleidoscope as headliner on Friday, March 26 and Deadmau5 (making his first major festival appearance in 2010) and Groove Armada Saturday, March 27. Boston-based synth-popsters Passion Pit hot fresh off of a series of sold-out headline shows across North America is also booked for Ultra along with Faithless Sound System and the Bloody Beetroots, both making their USA live debut.
Carl Cox will return for the 6th consecutive year with his two-day mega tent; Armin Van Buuren, the world’s #1 DJ ( as per DJ Magazine’s annual readers poll), also will appear; and gaining greater exposure at the festival are marquee acts from the jamtronica scene including The Disco Biscuits, Ghostland Observatory, Bassnectar, Pretty Lights and Lotus. Ultra Music Festival is mashing up dub step and drum & bass to create the very first Dub and Bass arena on the Saturday bill with a who’s who in both genres.
Tickets for the ULTRA MUSIC FESTIVAL are available exclusively through ultramusicfestival.com with two-day general admission tickets at $139.95. Two-day VIP tickets are also available for $350.00 and includes access to multiple VIP covered areas including strategically placed staging offering preferred viewing of the Ultra main stage, meet and greets with artists, no-wait entry into the festival via a VIP entrance, VIP bars and premium food vendors, air-conditioned restroom trailer facilities and much more.
More acts will be announced over the upcoming weeks. The current exclusive line-up for Ultra Music Festival 12 is as follows:
Friday, March 26
TIËSTO, SWEDISH HOUSE MAFIA, ERIC PRYDZ, PASSION PIT, THE CRYSTAL METHOD LIVE, THE DISCO BISCUITS, CARL COX, DIRTY SOUTH, WILL.I.AM, RABBIT IN THE MOON, INFECTED MUSHROOM, PLUMP DJS, FELIX DA HOUSECAT, PRETTY LIGHTS, ADAM FREELAND, GREEN VELVET, ALEX METRIC, LOTUS, UBERZONE VS. BASSBIN TWINS, DAN BLACK, EVIL NINE, KEVENS and AFROBETA
Saturday, March 27
DEADMAU5, GROOVE ARMADA LIVE, CARL COX, FAITHLESS SOUND SYSTEM LIVE, ARMIN VAN BUUREN, ABOVE & BEYOND, CROOKERS, BLOODY BEETROOTS LIVE, GHOSTLAND OBSERVATORY, MAJOR LAZER, BASSNECTAR, STEVE AOKI, ATB, GLITCH MOB, DIPLO, LTJ BUKEM, A-TRAK, RUSKO, BANGA, SKREAM, CASPA, and TODDLA T.
Looking forward to the UMF... will b my 1st time :)
I have a question; what's the schedule like?
I've heard this is a day-time event, but I haven't read this anywhere on their or related websites.
Anybody knows?
Posted by: ESa | Jan 29, 2010 at 03:06 PM