Next year will mark the 25th anniversary of Ultra Music Festival’s flagship Miami event.
Festival organizers typically wait until the current year’s event wraps up before announcing the next one, but Ultra Music Festival isn’t your typical EDM gathering. The Miami massive has shared that it will celebrate its 25th anniversary from March 28-30, 2025.
The announcement arrives a few days before the 2024 edition of Ultra takes place from March 22-24. Recently, Insomniac shared dates for the 2024 edition of EDSea less than 24 hours after the 2023 debut edition of the cruise ship gathering wrapped up — but to announce before the current year’s event even begins is virtually unprecedented. Usually, organizers prefer to leverage all of their digital marketing muscle to draw as many eyes to the upcoming event as possible (although Ultra did officially sell out earlier this month).
Their excitement is understandable as next year’s event will mark a quarter of a century that Ultra Music Festival has taken place, no small feat for a music event of any kind. Ultra inaugurated in 1999 and took place at Collins Park in Miami Beach. It relocated to Bayfront Park in 2001, where it has remained save for a small handful of editions in locations like Bicentennial Park and Virginia Key.
The attentive music fan might notice that 2025 should actually mark 27 years if you count 1999 as the first one. Ultra’s organizers have presumably decided not to count 2020 and 2021, when the festival didn’t take place at all on account of the COVID-19 pandemic.
No lineup details are available for Ultra Music Festival 2025 at the time of writing. The 2024 event will feature headliners like Armin van Buuren, Gryffin, Maddie O’Neal, Mahmut Orhan, and Blanke. Recently, EDM Identity asked them for their thoughts ahead of this year’s edition of the festival.
Ultra’s organizers have shared that limited tickets will be available “very soon.” Join the waitlist via the Ultra Music Festival website.
