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
Ultra Music Festival is held in Downtown Miami at Bayfront Park.It was a one-day festival from 1999 to 2006,then grew into a two-day weekend event from 2007 to 2010. Since 2011, Ultra has taken place across three days (Friday through Sunday) during the month of March.In 2012, a record attendance of 155,000 people attended the festival. 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.I n 2014, the festival returned to its original one weekend format, selling out pre sale tickets in under five minutes.The most recent edition of Ultra, in 2017, welcomed 165,000 people to the festival.
As of 2016, Ultra Music Festival is home to seven stages that span the picturesque Bayfront Park[ which include the Main Stage, the Live stage, the MegaStructure, the Worldwide stage, the UMF Radio stage, the Resistance stage, and the Oasis stage.
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.
Other Ultra Worldwide festivals and events take place across the world in locations like Cape Town & Johannesburg, South Africa; Seoul, Korea; Singapore, Singapore; Tokyo, Japan; Hvar and Split, Croatia; Mexico City, Mexico; Rio de Janeiro, Brazil; Bogotá, Colombia; and many other destinations. At the end of Ultra Music Festival 2017, it added two more countries: India and Australia.The twentieth edition of Ultra Music Festival took place March 23–25, 2018.
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