Electric Zoo
Last year, Made Event debuted a new festival in New York City, and received an extremely positive result. What more could you want out of a festival than plenty of stages, awesome sound and lighting, great crowds, an impressive international lineup, all while looking out at the Manhattan skyline. It doesn’t get much better than that! Last year’s lineup included artists such as Armin van Buuren, Benny Benassi, Danny Tenaglia, David Guetta, Kaskade, Roger Sanchez, Steve Angello, and Deadmau5. Not impressed yet? Check out this years’s lineup on the Electric Zoo website. Don’t know these phenomenal artists? Get your silly self to a music download site stat.
New York has been waiting for too long for a real dance festival to bless its turf, and Electric Zoo is just that. Taking place over two days during Labor Day Weekend, there really is no better way to send off the summer months and welcome autumn. Tickets for both days are $122 (plus a service fee) but you can also spend more money (a lot more) to get VIP and ensure parking. For me, GA is all I need. You can park anywhere and catch the water taxi over to the festival, which is held in the historic Randall’s Island Park in between Queens and Manhattan.
In 2009 the festival had a combined attendance of 26,000 over the two days, however, for 2010 they’re expecting a much larger turnout as word about the festival has been spoken around the country. I have heard people as far away as Miami talking about going this September. It seems that New York has finally gotten its electronic dance music festival it’s been asking for. If this genre isn’t your cup of tea, there will be open air tents for other types of artists as well, but I’m not sure if you’d want to pay the cost of admission for one or two tents.
Hope to see all you crazy dance fiends out at Randall’s Park this year!