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World Electronic Festivals.

  1. Posted on Saturday 31 October 2009 - 13:47
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    ULTRA MUSIC FESTIVAL (UMF)--the world’s leading two-day electronic and alternative music experience--returns for its 12th year Friday, March 26 and Saturday, March 27, 2010. Recognized as the ninth Top Grossing Concert by Pollstar’s mid-year issue in 2009, ULTRA MUSIC FESTIVAL is easily one of music’s most anticipated annual events and will take place as the official closing event of the Winter Music Conference at the beautiful waterfront location of Bicentennial Park in downtown Miami.

    Heralded by the Los Angeles Times as bringing “out raucous revelers as well as electronica’s elite,” UMF had its biggest year yet in 2009. With a line-up that included the launch of The Black Eyed Peas’ massive single “Boom Boom Pow” and exclusive performances by a wide range of DJs and electronic-influenced artists, last year’s UMF saw 85,000 attendees coming from 56 countries & territories, 50 U.S. states and Puerto Rico.

    As the world’s most famous outdoor electronic music event, UMF has won “Best Music Event” by the International Dance Music Awards (IDMA) in 2009, 2008, 2007 & 2005, “Best International Dance Music Festival” by the Ibiza DJ Awards in 2008 and “Best Festival” by the Village Voice Media New Times consecutively five years running from 2005 through 2009.

    Originally created as a pure EDM (electronic dance music) festival in 1999, Ultra has grown through the years to present not only the genre’s hottest, biggest and best headline artists (The Prodigy, The Chemical Brothers, Tiesto, Underworld, MOBY, Fatboy Slim, Carl Cox, Paul van Dyk, David Guetta, Armin Van Buuren, Erick Morillo, Deadmau5 and Paul Oakenfold, to name a few), but also crossover headline bands that incorporate EDM elements in their music and have a history, or new beginning in the EDM community and culture (The Cure, The Killers, The Black Eyed Peas, Santogold, The Ting Tings, The Bravery).

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