Okeechobee Music Festival 2020 Dates March 5 Through March 8 - Miami New Times

Okeechobee Music Festival 2020 Dates March 5 Through March 8 - Miami New Times

Okeechobee Music Festival 2020 Dates March 5 Through March 8 - Miami New Times

Posted: 30 Jul 2019 05:00 AM PDT

New Times reported earlier this month that Okeechobee Music & Arts Festival (OMF) was poised to make a comeback in 2020. Last week, Lake Okeechobee News confirmed the Florida music world's worst-kept secret: Okeechobee Fest is set to return in 2020, with dates scheduled for March 5 through 8.

The paper also confirmed Insomniac — now co-owner of Club Space in downtown Miami and the event producer of Electric Daisy Carnival — along with Okeechobee's longtime producer Soundslinger, is onboard to help make the comeback a reality. Jim Whisenand, a member of Soundslinger's board of directors, told the paper the lineup is expected to be announced in November.

Soundslinger attorney Tom Conely appeared before the Okeechobee County Commission last Thursday, July, 25, to seek approval for the dates. During the public comment period, locals expressed support for OMF's return as long as it didn't conflict with two local events — the Speckled Perch Festival and the Okeechobee Cattlemen's Association Cowtown Rodeo — taking place the second weekend of March. The commission unanimously approved OMF's return during the first weekend of that month.

The festival teased its comeback on Instagram: "The Portal Awakens #OMF2020." (The "portal" is fans' lingo for the magic and otherworldliness the festival creates as attendees enter the Sunshine Grove compound.)

Organizers originally wanted the festival to take place during the weekend of March 12 through 15, but those dates conflicted with the Speckled Perch Festival and the Cowtown Rodeo. The proposed dates immediately caused pushback from residents. Jim Colgan, president of the Cattlemen's Association, told New Times earlier this month that he supports the music festival, but just like a music festival, rodeos take careful planning months in advance. "We have to work with other rodeos close by to get the contestants down here."

Eventually, OMF dropped its push for those dates and settled or the first weekend in March. According to Lake Okeechobee News , the festival wanted the second weekend in order to better align with spring break.

Yesterday's announcement of Insomniac's ownership stake in Club Space also puts the company in a close relationship with David Sinopoli, founder of III Points. Sinopoli's event is scheduled for February 26 and 27, the weekend before OMF. Though III Points and OMF's aesthetics and musical tastes tend to differ quite a bit — and there's a geographical distance between the two — inevitably, there will be some audience overlap. (Insomniac has not announced any involvement in III Points.)

Okeechobee Music & Arts Festival. Thursday, March 5, through Sunday, March 8, at Sunshine Grove, 12517 NE 91st Ave., Okeechobee; okeechobeefest.com. Tickets prices are TBA.

Jose D. Duran has been the associate web editor of Miami New Times since 2008. He's the strategist behind the publication's eyebrow-raising Facebook and Twitter feeds. He has also been reporting on Miami's cultural scene since 2006. He has a BS in journalism and will live in Miami as long as climate change permits.

Estonian online music portal Rada7 to shut down after 20 years - ERR News

Posted: 15 Jul 2019 12:00 AM PDT

"20 years is a very long time," said Ivo Kiviorg, founder and head of the Rada7 team from beginning to end. "When I first came up with the idea for a music page, loitering around in the woods as a teenager, I couldn't have possibly imagined that this would end up such a long, meaningful and eventful journey. As I think back on what we've accomplished, I think it bears saying that we have done our part to make Estonia a better place. This is all the more remarkable due to the fact that Rada7.ee has always run exclusively on volunteer efforts. I'd like to thank everyone who has been there with us in thought, contributors, supporters, artists and organizers from the bottom of my heart. This has been an absolutely incredible adventure. Now it's on to the next thing."

Rada7's final birthday party will take place at Tallinn's Sveta Baar on Friday, Sept. 6, where Thou Shell of Death, Fvnerals (U.K.), Ocean Districts, Sibyl Vane, Talbot, 4-got-10 and Söör Paul will help set the mood and celebrate.  

A rare photo of the entire Rada7 team, circa 2016. Source: Rada7

As this birthday party will be doubling as a farewell party for the portal, the night will kick off on a darker and slower note before picking up speed and moving toward new beginnings. Thou Shell of Death has patiently waited for Rada7's party to finally debut its new album "Witchery," which as released by Austria's Talheim Records in April. The U.K.'s aptly named Fvnerals will likewise play a guest set, their sound featuring a mix of doom, post-rock, shoegaze and dark ambient.

Ocean Districts, which released its EP "Doomtowns" late last year, and Pärnu's Sibyl Vane, which has its third album in the works, will begin to pick up the pace before the evening culminates with a merciless live set by Talbot, which released the full-length album "Magnetism" last year. Anders Melts and Paul Lepasson, or 4-got-10 and Söör Paul, of Beats from the Vault and SÜNK fame will then take over to keep the party going.

Portal uniting artists, fans

Founded in 1999, Rada7.ee is an online music magazine and portal whose community consists of event organizers, artists, journalists as well as fans themselves.

Rada7 is a leading and award-winning Estonian-language source on music, and provides comprehensive coverage of concerts, festivals, and local and international acts alike. It was awarded Media Channel of the Year at the inaugural Estonian Music Industry Awards in 2015 and again in 2018; during the years in between, it was shortlisted among the top three.

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