Organizers of the Ultra Music Festival Miami 2021 cancelled the popular DJ techno fest for the second year in a row, citing COVID-19 concerns, Billboard reports. The Bayfront Park event would have happened in March in downtown Miami. Organizers of Ultra are requesting that City of Miami officials approve their permit request to stage the event next year in March.

The 2020 installment of Ultra Music Festival in Miami has been canceled due to concerns over the coronavirus, Miami Herald reports. City officials encouraged organizers to postpone the event. The annual electronic music festival was supposed to take place at Miami’s Bayfront Park between March 20th and 22nd, with an expected daily attendance of over 55,000 people. The scheduled lineup included Major Lazer, Flume, Zedd, Gesaffelstien, David Guetta, Afrojack, and DJ Snake, among others.

Miami city commissioners voted 3-2 Thursday to approve an agreement with Ultra Music Festival, which allows the big three-day electronic dance music event to return to Bayfront Park in March 2020, Miami Herald reports. Last fall the contract was not renewed, after complaints from downtown residents who oppose the event’s large crowds and heavy traffic. […]

Florida’s Ultra Music Festival is leaving Miami after 21 years, in search of a new permanent home in South Florida. Ultra had been primarily held at Bayfront Park, but ih 2018 the city of Miami ousted the festival from its then-home citing noise complaints among the reasons. The event relocated to Miami’s Virginia Key island […]