Electric Daisy Carnival
The Electric Daisy Carnival (often simply called EDC ) is a three-day music festival in the electronic dance music that takes place annually on the last weekend of June in Las Vegas. In addition to the main event in Las Vegas now also festivals in Orlando, Denver, Dallas and Puerto Rico are organized.
Development
The first Electric Daisy Carnival was held in Los Angeles with 5,000 visitors in the Shrine Expo Hall in 1997. It has since been performed at various locations in Southern California and was its number of participants steadily increased. In 2007, the festival was first held at the Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum & Exposition Park. The number of visitors was 40,000. The following year the number of visitors already 65,000, resulting in long waiting times at the entrance was. In addition, in 2008 a second festival in Colorado was also the first time carried out. As the event grounds Arapahoe County Fairgrounds in Aurora served.
In 2009, the main festival in Los Angeles has been extended to two days. On Friday, more than 40,000 visitors were present and on Saturday more than 90,000. In addition to Los Angeles and Colorado was organized in August 2009 a Electric Daisy Carnival in Puerto Rico. The festival was held in San Juan in the Fairgrounds Arena.
In 2010, increased its number of visitors, the festival again. On the two days a total of 185,000 visitors were in Los Angeles at the festival. The headliners were Armin van Buuren, Deadmau5, the Swedish House Mafia and Above & Beyond. The event came under criticism from local authorities after some visitors had to be hospitalized for drug abuse and a 15 -year-old participant in hyponatremia died, an electrolyte deficiency in the body, which was created because they had consumed too much water in too short a time. Out of a ban on raves in Los Angeles was discussed. The moratorium was annulled on 16 July 2010. At the same time stricter safety regulations were enacted. So in the future is considered an age limit of 18 years and there are doctors prescribed at the venue. The other festivals grew again in 2010 and moved to larger venues. The festival in Colorado moved to Denver, the festival in Puerto Rico was held at the Estadio Sixto Escobar and another festival was conducted in Dallas Fair Park in Texas.
After the Coliseum Commission long hesitated to approve the event in 2011, decided by the organizer Insomniac Events, Los Angeles, to leave and go through the whole festival in Las Vegas. As the event grounds of Las Vegas Motor Speedway serves. In addition to the much larger area, the festival was also the first time carried out over three days. For the first time the festival took place on the night of 8 clock in the evening to 6 clock in the morning. 13 art installations were scattered around the grounds and erected by 2 clock in the morning there was in each case a 15 - minute fireworks display. As headliners Tiësto, David Guetta and the Swedish House Mafia have been committed. A total of 230,000 visitors during the three days. In addition to the four previous festivals also a two-day festival was held in Orlando, Florida, 2011.