UPDATED 6/20 10:43 a.m.
Paul Peck and his Frameless Creative partner Steve Sybesma — the forces behind Okeechobee Music & Arts Festival — recently teamed up with promoter Bruce Orosz and announced plans to bring a three-day music festival to Miami’s beachfront Lummus Park.
Today we learned that organizers of the inaugural Miami Beach Pop Festival — happening November 8-10 in South Beach — are not fucking around.
A lineup poster released at 10 a.m. finds Chance the Rapper, Jack Johnson, Daddy Yankee and Kygo occupying the top tier, followed by a second tier that includes a recently-reunited Raconteurs, Latin-pop star Juanes, Leon Bridges and Maggie Rogers. The Roots, Sean Paul, T-Pain and Jessie Reyez are in the third tier along with Nile Rodgers and Chic.
Rodgers is also set to lead a “Sol Jam” as part of Miami Beach Pop’s “Once-in-a-Lifetime Sh*t” programing, which includes a Stephen Marley-led all-star celebration of Bob Marley plus a performance featuring Ben Folds and the University of Miami’s Frost School of Music American Music Ensemble.
The rest of the stacked lineup includes many CL favorites including Margo Price, Win Butler (who is doing a DJ Windows 98 set, like he did at Crowbar in Ybor a few years ago), The Hip Abduction and Spam Allstars.
Ticketing details and a daily schedule have yet to be announced, but we’ll update the post as they become available.
A press release says that 3-day GA (starting at $175) and VIP ($1,250) tickets will go on sale to the public on Friday, June 21 at 10 a.m.. All fans are also eligible to register for a presale, but Miami Beach residents get even more perks thanks to a 20% discount on GA tickets.
Since we began, our vision has been to create a world-class celebration of our city and its tropical flavor, and to bring a positive, unifying experience to the sands of Miami Beach,” organizers told Miami New-Times in May. “This is more than simply a music festival; it's a celebration designed to welcome and engage people of all ages, ethnicities, and backgrounds for a meaningful, shared experience."
In May, Peck told Billboard that his festival is not connected to the 1968 Miami Pop concert, but that it is “a nod to the early live music movement and the power of an iconic festival site to transform the live experience.”
See the lineup poster below and watch miamibeachpop.com for details.
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