The second coming of Fyre Fest is prepared with a brand new set of dates and ticketing associate (promising refundable choices!).
Fyre Fest 2 will happen this from Could 30 to June 2, 2025, Billboard reported Tuesday, eight years after the unique Fyre Fest left ticket consumers stranded in a Bahamas catastrophe that ended with the competition’s founder, Billy McFarland, pleading responsible to fraud. McFarland has introduced Fyre Fest 2, which is able to happen on Isla Mujeres off the coast of Mexico, as a redemption alternative for himself and the model.
Whereas Fyre Fest is dealing with main ticket gross sales, Austin-based ticketing website SoldOut.com will associate with the corporate for all secondary gross sales. Mexican live performance manufacturing firm LostNights will deal with competition logistics.
The brand new dates are a few month later than the fest’s initially deliberate window, April 25-28.
“FYRE Pageant 2 is concerning the journey into the unknown, curating elite, once-in-a-lifetime experiences,” McFarland stated in a press release. “SoldOut.com’s background within the music competition world will be sure that our visitors have a seamless ticket-buying course of from begin to end. Soldout.com is a good addition to the group which additionally consists of LostNights, our gifted and achieved competition producer and operator.”
President of SoldOut.com Andrew Hentrich confirmed that the corporate ensures refunds ought to the fest be canceled. “All proceeds from Fyre Pageant ticket gross sales on SoldOut.com are held securely and won’t be settled with Fyre till after the occasion has efficiently taken place,” he stated in a press release, additionally noting the corporate is totally insured.
Followers who sought refunds for 2017’s failure ended up receiving pennies on the greenback on account of the fest’s chapter.
Tickets for Fyre Fest 2 vary from $1,400 to $25,000. McFarland can also be promoting a $1 million package deal for eight individuals which incorporates luxurious villas, a personal yacht marina and a personal jet to and from Cancun.
No expertise has been introduced for the competition, and Billboard famous that two of the biggest reserving businesses for music festivals reported that nobody from Fyre Fest or LostNights had contacted them.
