Miami Music Festival Review

The first Miami Music Festival took place in the sunshine capital of the world last December. The festival featured more than 120 bands playing in 15 different venues across Miami’s downtown. It also offered workshops and conference for musicians, video producers and music fans. The finest of the local scene gathered in various tends and bars to show concert goers that Miami’s music scene is not only about rap and electronic music.

The Show took place from Thursday December 10th until Saturday December 12th. “It’s very nice to see all this effort that was put in to make this festival possible,” said Gian Nicolaci, keyboard player of Radioboxer, “too bad that people here are not responding.” The limited publicity and the lack of enthusiastic concert goers in the city made the festival struggle on the first day. However, on Friday and Saturday, the attendance increased and the bands responded to the crowd.”

“Hopefully in the next years people will get excited about this festival as they do with Ultra and the Winter Music Festival (Electronic and dance music festivals).” Commented Migue Fernandez, lead singer of the local band Rebel, who was in attendance. “That way this can grow and become like our South by Southwest.”

The festival itself was bittersweet, on one hand was a nice change of rhythm for the bands and music fans that got to see several new bands, on the other it was disappointed to see the lack of organization and the fact that very few people heard of it. I guess the organizers will have to learn from the mistakes they did for the future. And hopefully in the years to come this festival will replace the, now in hiatus, Langerado Music Festival as the best place to showcase independent music in South Florida.

Diego Dazza

Soyprensa Staff Writer (Miami, Fl)

diegodazza@soyprensa.com

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