After practically twenty years in downtown Miami, Ultra Music Festival, the town’s most iconic and longest-running music pageant, is out of a house. The now-international model misplaced its bid for a five-year contract continuation with the City of Miami, which might have stored it in Bayfront Park. Tickets for the 2019 version of the flagship pageant went on sale the day earlier than.
The closing vote in opposition to the renewed contract was unanimous, in keeping with the Miami New Times. It adopted what was reported as an unsightly battle between two City of Miami Commissioners. Those in favor of ousting Ultra cited complaints made by downtown residents who discover the pageant’s music too loud and unrelenting.
“When pro-Ultra audio system identified how lengthy the pageant has referred to as Bayfront dwelling,” Miami New Times’ Jose Duran writes, “Carollo retorted, ‘That was a distinct Miami. The type of music that Ultra performs will not be the identical as different venues the place the music adjustments… It’s thump, thump, thump.'”
Ultra is not the one pageant to search out hassle at Bayfront. Popular hip-hop occasion Rolling Loud held its expanded pageant on the venue in 2017 earlier than leaving in 2018. There is not a proposed alternative venue but for the 20-year-old establishment that made its dwelling on the downtown waterfront for 18 years. Billboard Dance reached out to Ultra representatives for remark.
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