“We are finally taking a spring break, from spring break,” wrote Get Lost organizer Damian Lazarus.
A staple of Miami Music Week will be sorely missing from this year’s festivities. Get Lost has shared that its annual Get Lost Miami gathering will not make its usual appearance in 2024.
“After 18 years of Get Lost Miami during MMW, we’ve decided not to return this year,” reads an Instagram post by Get Lost organizer and Crosstown Rebels founder Damian Lazarus. “We are finally taking a spring break, from spring break.”
“Since discovering locations like Studio A, Electric Pickle, Lemon City and Factory Town over the years, we have always prided ourselves on being a unique, stand alone event like nothing else around,” it continues. “We feel that last year’s incredible 20th anniversary of Crosstown Rebels was simply so good, that we’ve decided to take a pause, to let that experience live in the memory as one of the greatest shows we’ve ever made.”
Lazarus organized the first Get Lost Miami in 2006 as an ode to the parties he experienced during his first visit to the city for Winter Music Conference 1997, per Miami New Times. It took place at the now-defunct Studio A and billed Scarlet Etienne, DJ Three, Silversurfer, Pier Bucci, and Lazarus himself. Get Lost Miami headliners over the years include Black Coffee, Felix da Housecat, La Fleur, Nicole Moudaber, Carl Craig, and Sama’ Abdulhadi.
While Get Lost Miami is taking a break, the Get Lost brand as a whole still appears to be expanding. “Miami is our original home. This event has become one of the most loved events on the annual party calendar, so we recognize that this will be sad news for many,” Lazarus writes. “However we are about to announce 3 brand new exciting locations, where we’ll be bringing Get Lost to in March, June and November of this year so watch this space.”
