Another year of Sunset Music Festival is just days away, and in preparation with the upcoming event, we have a few ticket reminders to make sure you have a fun and carefree Sunset experience.
If you haven’t bought your tickets to the festival yet, don’t worry. Online ticket sales will continue on through to the day of the event while on-site ticket sales will begin at 11:30 AM at the Raymond James Stadium box office. Please beware of frauds and scalpers. VIP tickets are already sold out, but there are a few remaining VIP tables still available for purchase. We’ll see you soon!
Ticket Warning
Sunset Music Festival urges our patrons to beware of fraud and counterfeit tickets. Please do not buy tickets from scalpers. To assure the authenticity of your ticket purchase, please only purchase tickets from authorized ticket outlets. Authorized ticket outlets include the SMFtampa.com and any retail locations listed on the ticketing page of the Sunset site. Tickets and wristbands will not be reissued under any circumstance, so please hold onto them.
Sunset Music Festival will take place rain or shine. The acts we advertise have confirmed their appearance, however acts are subject to change without notice. Please guard your tickets carefully. Prices will increase and tickets may sell out as allotments run out, so please buy early to get the best pricing.
Now in its third year, Sun City Music Festival is the largest outdoor dance music event that the city of El Paso has ever hosted. Returning to El Paso County’s largest public recreational facility, Ascarate Park’s 448 acres always serves as an excellent backdrop to an already amazing event. Taking place Saturday, August 31st, and Sunday, September 1st, Disco Donnie Presents and SMG Events are proud to announce the initial artist lineup for Sun City Music Festival:
American electronic music promoter Disco Donnie Presents (DDP) and the Bob Moog Foundation have announced a strategic partnership to further the Foundation’s mission to educate and inspire children through the intersection of music and science.
The Asheville-based Foundation, which carries on the legacy of electronic music icon Robert Moog, received a $10,000 donation to assist with its innovative science and music education outreach program, Dr. Bob’s SoundSchool (DBSS), as well as a donation portal on all Disco Donnie Presents tickets pages to help raise additional support. The $10,000 donation was provided from the proceeds of Houston based Halloween electronic music festival, Something Wicked, a partnership between Disco Donnie Presents and Houston promoter Nightculture Events. Additionally, Disco Donnie Presents will match fan donations received through the donation portal.
“We’re thrilled to have found a partner in The Bob Moog Foundation — a foundation that shares the same values in the importance of education and creativity in the areas of music, math, and science. The strategic partnership paves the way for online donations from our customers, but also the continued support of our company,” Disco Donnie Presents CEO Donnie Estopinal said.
The Foundation sees the partnership as a perfect fit for both organizations.
“Donnie’s prominence within the EDM community and his interests in the area of innovative education that integrates music and science make the partnership a natural fit. We look forward to cultivating our strategic partnership with DDP to work together to ignite creativity in children’s lives through Dr. Bob’s SoundSchool,” said Michelle Moog-Koussa, Executive Director of the Bob Moog Foundation. She continues, “We are especially grateful that DDP has agreed to match all donations made through the ticket donation portals. This extra show of support will provide added incentive for concert-goers to pay tribute to their musical roots while inspiring the future through supporting the Bob Moog Foundation”.
The Foundation is in at a pivotal juncture of growth with Dr. Bob’s SoundSchool. The acclaimed program is centered in western North Carolina, but the foundation hopes to grow it regionally and nationally in the next three to five years. The growth of the program costs $20 per student or $500 per classroom.
The idea for a strategic partnership first came about when a mutual friend introduced Moog-Koussa and Estopinal at the EDM Biz conference in Las Vegas earlier this year.
Estopinal’s Disco Donnie Presents, both on its own and through partnerships, produces over 1,000 live events, festivals and club shows around the US annually. Ticket buyers for every show will now have the ability to donate to the Foundation. The Foundation and DDP hope the national focus and number of events will help spread the word and raise financial support.
“One of the reasons I’m excited about the strategic partnership is that fan ticketing donations are a good way for the electronic music culture to start giving back, said Estopinal. Historically, electronic music fans haven’t really been known for philanthropy, and I’m hoping that’s a perception we can all change together. I’m pleased to offer to match all donations that are made through the ticketing portal to enhance everybody’s contributions to this important cause.”
With school music and arts program cuts all across the country and U.S. students lagging behind students in other countries in the areas of science and math, the Bob Moog Foundation seeks to make an immediate impact in the lives of children through Dr. Bob’s SoundSchool.
The Foundation operates with two main objectives, education and preservation. The goals come to life through Dr. Bob’s SoundSchool and Archive Preservation Initiative. Eventually, a Moogseum is also in the works.
Contact: Evan Bailey
Communications Director, Disco Donnie Presents
evan@discodonniepresents.com
Dr. Bob’s SoundSchool
Dr. Bob’s SoundSchool (DBSS) is a 10 week curriculum which engages 2nd grade children in the science of sound through the magic of music. The curriculum explores such basic physics of vibrations, waveforms, amplitude, and pitch. Both acoustic and electronic musical instruments are used to demonstrate concepts, as well as custom designed educational materials developed by our DBSS team of educators and technologists. The curriculum is currently in 32 schools in Western North Carolina. The Foundation’s goal is to grow the program regionally and nationally in the years ahead.
Archive Preservation Initiative
The Bob Moog Foundation Archive is a unique and vast collection of schematics, notes, breadboard prototypes, photos, articles, reel-to-reel tapes, instruments and more. The Foundation works to protect, interpret and exhibit these materials so that future generations can be inspired by Bob Moog’s legacy, and by the work of those with whom he collaborated. The manifestation of this preservation will be to share the archives through traveling exhibits and eventually through our own Moogseum.
Moogseum
The Moogseum is planned to be both a website and facility in Asheville where the outreach and preservations goals converge in a hands-on interactive environment.
For more information about the Bob Moog Foundation and ways you can help, please visit: www.moogfoundation.org. Donations of any size can also be mailed to: Bob Moog Foundation, P.O. Box 8136, Asheville, NC 28814.
About Disco Donnie Presents
Disco Donnie Presents (DDP) is an award-winning and recognized leader in electronic dance music event production, generating over 1,000 live events, arena shows and outdoor festivals annually. DDP, both on its own and through partnership, develops innovative, creative and strategic business opportunities in live entertainment. For more information, please visit www.discodonniepresents.com
About NightCulture, Inc.
NightCulture, Inc. (NGHT.OB), “Concerts that Change Your Life”, is a premier producer of live concerts and events in the following U.S. markets: Houston, Austin, San Antonio and Oklahoma City.
From their humble beginnings at underground raves in Chicago warehouses, trio Krewella first burst on the scene in 2011. It wasn’t until they self-released their critically acclaimed Play Hard EP in the summer of 2012. The EP went to #1 on Beatport’s overall chart and the single “Alive” went to #1 on Billboard’s Dance Radio Airplay. Though it hasn’t even been a year since that EP, Krewella has become one of the hottest dance acts on the planet thanks to their hard blend of electro house, dubstep, and lyrics was high, it would skyrocket after they
Having just recently been awarded the IDMA for “Best Breakthrough Artist,” we agree with Billboard who stated “Krewella will be huge this year.”
Join Disco Donnie Presents and Krewella on or partnering dates:
When the gates close to Sunset Music Festival, that doesn’t mean the show is over. After the party is the after party, and we would like to invite you to two official after parties taking place in Tampa right after the festival ends. You can either get wet with Krewella at Amphitheater Event Facility or get down with heRobust at Hogan’s Beach. So come enjoy Sunset a little longer. Tickets are available online and will be available at the door, buy yourtickets now!
In just five days, the gates to Raymond James Stadium will finally be open for the second edition of Tampa’s Sunset Music Festival. This year, we’ve taken extra measures to ensure that you’ll beat the heat and stay cool while you celebrate the sun god Ra this Saturday, May 25th.
Take cover under the new production design which will feature 6x the shade as last year.
We’ve added extra shading in Sunset’s design so that you and your body can regroup before you go back out to our Ra, Isis, and Set stages and dance some more.
Take a quick splash into coolness with two newly added water slides.
Water slides will always be fun, no matter how old you are. Bring your swim suit and trunks and make a splash at Sunset this year.
Enjoy free refills at one of the water refill stations positioned throughout the festival.
We are excited to announce that Sunset Music Festival will now include free water stations throughout the festival grounds. You can also also stay hydrated and eliminate waste by grabbing a collectable Sunset Music Festival water bottle, which will be available at our merchandising booth.
There are plenty of ways to beat the heat keep cool at Sunset Music Festival this year, so don’t miss your chance to go. Grab your tickets today before the highly-anticipated event!
With Sunset Music Festival just around the corner, we’ve got some sound’s to mashup before the highly-anticipated event in Tampa this Saturday, May 25th. Have you bought your tickets yet? Today we’re diving into the melodic sounds of Morgan Page and the bass-ridden styles of Flosstradamus. Both acts are known for their healthy blend of multiple genres to create their own, individual sound – no matter how different those two sounds may be.
Morgan Page
Having two Grammy Award and five International Dance Music Award nominations to his credit, Morgan Page has come quite a long way from his humble beginnings of a log cabin in Burlington, Vermont. He is one of those artists whose music upon first listen is almost immediately identifiable. Whether it’s his melodic progressive synths or catchy and memorable pop-esque lyrics laid over top of a steady house beat, Morgan’s music has a way landing onto the iPod of almost any music lover out there. Dabbling in progressive, electro, and trance, prepare for an eclectic and energetic set when Morgan Page takes the main stage, Ra at Sunset Music Festival.
Flosstradamus
With the duo having made music for nearly a decade, the boys of Flosstradamus are certainly no newcomers to the scene. The “Floss” project began as a series of DJ parties in their hometown of Chicago, Illinois. With a string of successful club bangers and a little help from word of mouth, the duo have catapulted to the phenomenon they are today. While J2K and Autobot first came to our attention for their blend of electro, house, minimal techno, and R&B, the tracks that they have recently released just feed the world’s growing appetite for bass-heavy music in all of its forms. Known for their ability to put a Floss spin on all of our favorite songs and deliver a crazy amount of energy to every set, Flosstradamus are the perfect addition to the Set stage at Sunset Music Festival.
We’re so excited to welcome Ashley Wallbridge to Sunset Music Festival next Saturday, May 25th. Ashley has been steadily on the rise since 2008. Being championed by some of the biggest names in trance music, Ashley has become a regular at world famous clubs and festivals.
Having won many DJ competitions since the age of 16, the U.K. native is one of the few artists who can say that they’ve DJ’d for over half of their life. Early original productions like “Shotokan,” “Masquerade,” along with collaborations “Faces,” with Andy Moor, and “Mansion,” with Gareth Emery, are still embraced in trance sets around the globe. Ashley’s melodic blend of progressive, electro, and trance has made his sound very distinctive and garnered quite the following.
In 2012, Ashley released his long-awaited debut album, Inner Me on the revered Armada. Representing a year and a half of time in the studio, his dedication to perfecting his craft is made evident by the stellar tracks that adorn the release. With a fresh release out on Garuda, new material in the works, and gigs stationed around the world, 2013 is shaping up to be one amazing ride for Ashley Wallbridge. Join us May 25th when he takes the Isis stage at Raymond James Stadium for Sunset Music Festival. Buy your tickets today!
With Sunset Music Festival just a week away, our anticipation to hear music from the artists has reached a fever pitch. So to help us through the final stretch, here are three mixes to get you ready for Sunset Music Festival.
Morgan Page: “In The Air Episode 151”
Morgan Page‘s weekly mix show In The Air, broadcasting every Wednesday on SiriusXM and syndicated to dozens of countries worldwide, is back for another episode filled with of all Morgan’s current favorites.
Why We Love It
Weaving in and out of progressive, electro, and trance, this episode of In The Air packs quite the punch. Featuring tracks by other Sunset artists like David Guetta and Knife Party, we’re sure the energy from this mix will get you pumped for Sunset Music Festival.
KhoMha: “Live at ASOT 600 Den Bosch”
KhoMha joined the all-star lineup for the world famous, A State of Trance 600 in Den Bosch.
Why We Love It
Any trance fan will tell you that ASOT is one of the most, if not the most-anticipated events for the genre. KhoMha’s set for the 600 edition at Den Bosch is a collection of tracks that deliver on that same driving innovation that made the event so popular in the first place. Prepare to move.
Kicking off what will hopefully be a long string of episodes, Miami trio Brass Knuckles launches a new podcast series.
Why We Love It
Known for their fusion house, electro, pop, nu disco, and even rock, Brass Knuckles have become an unstoppable force brewing in the dance industry. Incorporating both live and electronic instruments to their music, this mix showcases what the boys do best – delivering nothing but gritty, energetic tunes back-to-back.
Our Sunset Music Festival lineup has a wide range of buzz-worthy newcomers gracing the stages this year. Pegboard Nerds is one of the buzzing artists making waves in the industry today. Though they had admired and been influenced by dance music for over twenty years, it wasn’t until 2011 that Danish countrymen Alexander Odden and Michael Parsberg would create the duo Pegboard Nerds after years of producing and remixing for other established artists.
Creating a unique blend of electronic music that spans over electro, dubstep, moombahcore, and glitch hop, the two have never confined themselves to a single genre. Which could probably attribute to their wide audience that has gained an impressive following over the past year. Their first release “Gunpoint” was the catalyst of a string of successful releases, like “Self Destruct,” “Disconnected,” and “Fire In The Hole” which held the number one spot on the Beatport’s Glitch Hop chart for almost 3 consecutive months. Their latest release “Razor Sharp” with Tristam is currently at #1. Pegboard Nerds’ remixes have gained a lot of attention as well. Their take on Krewella’s “Alive,” on popular channel UKF, has garnered over 1.5 million views and the remix of MSD and Jillian Ann’s “Quiet Riot” was also hand-picked by Knife Party for their Mixmag studio mix back in November.
You can catch Pegboard Nerds on tour supporting fellow Sunset artist Knife Party later this year, or you can just catch their set next week at the Set stage for Sunset Music Festival. Buy your tickets today!
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