Step away from the books and onto the dance floors because Spring Break is upon us!
Here are 9 electronic dance music festivals to guide you along the way, making for the ultimate Spring Break experience.
Okeechobee Music & Arts Festival
When: March 4 – 6, 2016
Where: Okeechobee, Florida
The portal is waiting, so jump right on into a place where creative souls from all over the world can come, collaborate and coexist. In its first year, Okeechobee Music & Arts Project will be a celebration of multimedia art, community, adventure, and natural beauty, with prominent environmental and socially conscious aspects. Aside from a spectacular musical lineup, attendees will be immersed in a magical experience with tremendous art, yoga, workshops, and more.
The festival is spread over 800 acres of pristine grasslands, clear lakes and exotic tropical woodlands with two main areas; The Grove and Moonlight Oasis. The Grove will serve as the nucleus of the action and will host three main stages, nested in subtropical treeline. Beyond the tree line, Moonlight Oasis will serve as a musical and cultural mosaic that unfolds around the lake.
The festival packs a diverse lineup and includes Skrillex, Kendrick Lamar, Mumford & Sons, Bassnectar, Odesza, Fetty Wap, Mac Miller, Big Gigantic, Grace Potter, The Supervillians, Gramatik and many more!
Okeechobee Music & Arts Festival also offers camping packages. What better way to spend Spring Break than pondering the world, letting loose and sleeping under the electric sky?
This event is all ages.
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Spring Weekend
When: April 15-16
Where: Panama City Beach, FL
Panama City Beach is like the Vegas of Spring Break. Known for playing host to epic, wild and crazy Spring Break behavior, Spring Weekend allows you to party on the white sandy beaches next to the crystal clear blue ocean in the panhandle of Florida.
For two days and two nights, fans can hang out, relax and party on the beach all while listening to their favorite artists. Although the lineup for this year still hasn’t been released, based on the festival’s history, it’s likely to be one hell of a party. Previous artists have included 3LAU, Krewella, Dada Life, Mija, Laidback Luke, Zeds Dead, Pegboard Nerds and more.
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Buku Music & Arts Project
When: March 11-12, 2016
Where: New Orleans
Forget your worries, disconnect from daily life and immerse yourself in another world at Buku Music & Arts Project. With installations, interactive elements and hundreds of non-traditional performances at every turn, New Orleans is the perfect place to spend Spring Break.
Buku has everything from fire breathers, break dancers, stilt walkers, and BUKreatures to projection-mapping, pop-up musical performances, cooking competitions, and fan fashion shows.
The lineup this year includes Pretty Lights, Kid Cudi, Above & Beyond, Nero, Fetty Wap, Griz, Datsik, Crystal Castles and more!
For tickets and more information, click here.
Inception Music Festival
When: Feb. 26 – April 4, 2016
Where: Cancun, Mexico
Cancun is the ultimate Spring Break location, so head on down to Mexico and over to Inception Music Festival. Home to beautiful beaches, amazing resorts, and unparalleled daytime and nighttime events, Inception Music Festival consists of 30 days and 30 nights of headlining talent at Cancun’s hottest resorts and clubs.
Designed so your Spring Break experience will never be the same again, Inception Music Festival brings travelers to a different and newly exciting dreamland year after year.
Spend your Spring Break with those who know how to do it right. IMF has taken day parties and night events, added the stunning Cancun scenery as a backdrop during the day, and the live Cancun club atmosphere at night, and combined it all with the hottest names in music, making for the ultimate Spring Break Party experience!
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Ultra Music Festival
When: March 18-20, 2016
Where: Miami, Florida
Is there really any better way to spend your Spring Break then in Miami for Ultra Music Festival? For three blissful days, you’ll be immersed in some of the best music in the world, with spectacular visual effects, all while being surrounded by the prismatic Miami skyline.
The lineup for this year’s festival is one of the best in UMF history and includes Deadmau5, Kaskade, Afrojack, Carl Cox, Kygo, Nero, Destroid, Tiesto, Armin Van Buuren, Avicii, David Guetta and so many more!
UMF coincides with Miami Music Week and the Winter Music Conference, so there’s plenty of parties and after parties to keep your Spring Break partying going on for days. Spend the day raging face at UMF during the day, then head on over to South Beach or downtown Miami to keep the party going well into the night and wee hours of the morning.
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Beyond Wonderland
When: March 18-19
Where: Southern California
Fall down the rabbit hole and spend your Spring Break with Alice at Beyond Wonderland. Enter a world beyond your wildest imagination where colors shine brighter, smiles are wider and all the majestic creatures of Wonderland come to life like never before.
Beyond Wonderland is a world of three-dimensional superstructures and colorful, glow-in-the-dark environments with interactive art that unlocks new realms of the imagination. When the sun sets, the mischievous creatures of the night withdraw to the shadows and Harlequin acrobats and intriguing insects come to life to entertain the queen and her royal court while fantastical animals run wild.
The lineup for Beyond Wonderland includes Alesso, Carnage, Dada Life, Deorro, Paul Van Dyk, Datsik, Chris Lake, Ferry Corsten, Galantis, Seven Lions, Slander and many more.
Celebrate life, love, art, and music and enter a world that allows you to be the truest version of yourself. Beyond Wonderland offers camping, conveniently located right next to the festival site.
From the stages and the sound to the pyrotechnics and the performers, there’s no better way to spend your Spring Break than by falling down the rabbit hole.
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Ultimate Music Experience
When: March 16-19, 2016
Where: South Padre Island, Texas
Join thousands of spring breakers for the biggest Spring Break of your life with the return of the Ultimate Music Experience on South Padre Island. Descend along the beautiful shores of South Padre Island to Schlitterbahn Beach Waterpark and enjoy three blissful nights soundtracked by top-tier headliners from every corner of the globe.
The lineup includes some of the biggest names in dance music with styles ranging from techno, disco, house, drum and bass, trap, trance and everything in between. Get your Spring Break on with Kaskade, Dj Snake, Porter Robinson, Dimitri Vegas & Like Mike, Big Gigantic, Galantis, Jauz, Keys & Krates, Marshmello, Jackal and more!
This event is 16 +
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CRSSD Festival
When: March 5-6, 2016
Where: San Diego, California
If you’re on the West Coast for Spring Break, then head on over to San Diego for CRSSD Festival. The two things that set this festival a part from the rest are its bayside location at San Diego’s Waterfront Park and a well-curated lineup of “forward-thinking Electronic artists.” Not to mention, it’s a non-smoking event.
The lineup includes Gorgon City, Loco Dice, Claude Von Stroke, Odesza, Tycho, Tiga, Skream, Gesaffelstein, Jamie Jones and more.
This event is 21+
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Inception At Sea
When: March 11-14, 2016
Where: Miami to The Bahamas
The Groove Cruise, Student City and Whet Travel have teamed up together to bring you the ultimate Spring Break party experience ever! Embark on the first-ever, fully chartered, all-inclusive Spring Break cruise that includes a premium open bar and more inclusions than you’d ever receive anywhere else.
Inception at Sea will feature non-stop music from The Chainsmokers, Cash Cash, Tyga, Sidney Samson, Otto Knows, Cazzette, The Bassjackers and more! During every minute of every day on board, you’ll be able to find some type of party going on.
Click here to find out eight reasons why you should go on Inception At Sea.
Nothing like this has ever been done before so take the first step and become a part of history!
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