Electric Zoo Festival 2011 |
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| Location(s) | New York City, NY, United States |
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| Years active | 2009–present |
| Date(s) | Labor Day Weekend |
| Website | www.electriczoofestival.com |
The Electric Zoo Festival is an annual electronic music festival held over Labor Day weekend in New York City on Randall's Island Park. The festival represents all genres of electronic music, bringing top international DJs and live acts from multiple countries along with hometown favorites to four stages.
In its 2009 inaugural year, 26,000 people passed through the festival's gates to see artists including Armin van Buuren, Deadmau5, David Guetta and Ferry Corsten. Electric Zoo received a coveted International Dance Music Awards nomination for “Best U.S. Festival” and “Best Music Event” by URB magazine, as well as press coverage from major media outlets like CNN, New York Times, Huffington Post, Village Voice, Time Out New York, New York Post, DJ Mag, and Ocean Drive, establishing it as New York City's premier electronic music festival as well as a top American event.[1]
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Electric Zoo 2009 was presented by Made Event and was held during Labor Day weekend on September 5th and September 6th, 2009. It was the inaugural launch of the event that turned out to be successful. It featured 55 artists over the course of the 2 days the event spanned.
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Source: Last.fm
Electric Zoo 2010 was presented by Made Event and was held on Labor Day weekend on September 4th and September 5th, 2010. 66 Acts spanned the 2 day fiasco giving atendees a wider variety of music than the year before.
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Source: Trancesound.net
Electric Zoo 2011 presented by Made Event was held during Labor Day weekend. Electric Zoo added one more day to the event form previous years, leading to the event being 3 days (Friday/Saturday/Sunday) instead of 2 days (Saturday/Sunday) which led to the performances of over 100 artists (expanding from the 66 of the previous year). The dates of the event were September 2nd, September 3rd and September 4th, 2011. The overall attendance for all three days is 85,000.
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Source: Made Event