The second coming of Fyre Fest is prepared with a brand new set of dates and ticketing companion (promising refundable choices!).
Fyre Fest 2 will happen this from Might 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 offered Fyre Fest 2, which can happen on Isla Mujeres off the coast of Mexico, as a redemption alternative for himself and the model.
Whereas Fyre Fest is dealing with major ticket gross sales, Austin-based ticketing web site SoldOut.com will companion 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 Competition 2 is concerning the journey into the unknown, curating elite, once-in-a-lifetime experiences,” McFarland mentioned in a press release. “SoldOut.com’s background within the music competition world will be sure that our company have a seamless ticket-buying course of from begin to end. Soldout.com is a superb addition to the workforce which additionally contains LostNights, our gifted and completed 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 Competition 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 mentioned in a press release, additionally noting the corporate is absolutely 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 folks 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 most important reserving companies for music festivals reported that nobody from Fyre Fest or LostNights had contacted them.