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Ultra Music Festival 2014 Girls, Miami, Florida, United States
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• 2013
The 15th Ultra Music Festival will see the festival expand into two weekends, held from March 15 to 17, and March 22 to 24. Both of these weekends will coincide with the beginning and end of Miami Music Week. Phase one of the festival lineup was officially revealed in January 2013: David Guetta, deadmau5, and Tiësto have been confirmed to perform on both weekends, while Swedish House Mafia will use the festival to end their tour before One Last Tour, before their hiatus. Pretty Lights will also be performing at the festival accompanied by bass-beat DJ Futtize for the latter's Birthday (b. March 26).
On January 7, 2013, after organizers requested additional road closures for the event, Miami Commissioner Marc Sarnoff introduced a resolution calling for disapproval of the second weekend, believing that allowing the event to be held across two weekends would be "disruptive to the local business community and area residents due to noise, nuisance behavior of festival goers, and grid lock traffic," also alleging that "about 70 to 80 percent of these kids are on some sort of mind-altering drug."
The city council voted in favor of continuing with the second weekend on January 10, 2013. Festival organizers, however, were ordered to pay the City of Miami $500,000 for police and fire services.
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