UMF South Africa 2016
Ultra Music Festival is an annual outdoor electronic music festival that takes place during March in the city of Miami, Florida.[2] The festival was founded in 1999 by Russell Faibisch and Alex Omes and is named after the 1997 Depeche Mode album, Ultra.[1]
Ultra Music Festival is held in Downtown Miami at Bayfront Park.[3] It was a one-day festival from 1999 to 2006,[4] then grew into a two-day weekend event from 2007 to 2010.[5] Since 2011, Ultra has taken place across three days (Friday through Sunday) during the month of March.[6] In 2012, a record attendance of 155,000 people attended the festival.[7] In 2013, for the first time in Ultra’s history, the festival took place across two consecutive weekends welcoming a combined attendance of 330,000 people.[8] In 2014, the festival returned to its original one weekend format, selling out pre sale tickets in under five minutes.[9][10] The most recent edition of Ultra, in 2016, welcomed 165,000 people to the festival.[11]
As of 2016, Ultra Music Festival is home to seven stages that span the picturesque Bayfront Park[12] which include the Mainstage, the Live stage, the MegaStructure, the Worldwide stage, the UMF Radio stage, the Resistance stage, and the Oasis stage.[13] Although they share names, Ultra Music Festival was not directly tied to Ultra Records, an electronic music record label. However, the two entities did announce a “global alliance” in August 2012, which would allow them to collaborate on marketing and cross-promotion.[14] Other Ultra Worldwide festivals and events take place across the world in locations like Ibiza, Spain; Seoul, Korea; Tokyo, Japan; Hvar and Split, Croatia; Singapore, Singapore; Rio de Janeiro, Brazil; and many other destinations.[15] The nineteenth edition of Ultra Music Festival will be taking place 24–26 March 2017.
