Welcome to Festival Las Vegas: How the city became a multiday music mecca

Welcome to Festival Las Vegas: How the city became a multiday music mecca

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  • Brock Radke, Las Vegas Weekly
May 21, 2022 7:21 PM
  • Brock Radke, Las Vegas Weekly

EDC is back, incredibly, for its second dance music mega-festival in seven months at the Las Vegas Motor Speedway. Hundreds of thousands of revelers will once again travel to Las Vegas to catch hundreds of star DJs and celebrate across an undeniably spectacular festival landscape May 20-22, and the crowd will consist of many of the same people who visited in October to partake in the pandemic-postponed comeback of one of the largest annual events of any kind in our Valley.

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It’s a big thing, but one that has quickly become typical in a town that could add City of Music Festivals to its already-bursting résumé.