{"id":138987,"date":"2026-01-31T18:48:10","date_gmt":"2026-01-31T18:48:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/138987\/"},"modified":"2026-01-31T18:48:10","modified_gmt":"2026-01-31T18:48:10","slug":"ozfest-headliner-not-signed-despite-festival-date-announced","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/138987\/","title":{"rendered":"OzFest headliner not signed despite festival date announced"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In a UNF Student Government budget hearing, the Office of Student Life revealed that an OzFest artist has not officially signed for the festival, despite the event date announcement.<\/p>\n<p>On Jan. 30, the Office of Student Life explained the status of the <a href=\"https:\/\/unfspinnaker.com\/112952\/latest\/ozfest-student-registration-is-available-students-awaiting-artist-announcement\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">OzFest headliner<\/a> when speaking to senators about the event.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI can tell you the artist when contracts are signed,\u201d said the Office of Student Life representative. \u201cThey\u2019re not signed.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>This news comes two weeks after the Office of Student Life announced that tickets for OzFest, which will take place on March 6, are available to claim.<\/p>\n<p>While the Office of Student Life has not announced the artist for OzFest 2025, the university has historically sourced its <a href=\"https:\/\/www.unitedtalent.com\/talent\/music\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">performers<\/a> for OzFest through United Talent Agency.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>In last year\u2019s OzFest, headliner <a href=\"https:\/\/unfspinnaker.com\/106736\/news\/unf-spends-320000-on-ozfest-performers-lil-yachty-and-wale\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Lil Yachty<\/a> signed to perform for the university festival in December 2024, two months before the event.<\/p>\n<p>For the 2024 OzFest, Flo Milli signed for the event in January of 2024, but contract negotiations began as early as August.<\/p>\n<p>The Office of Student Life has promised \u201cmajor artists\u201d and the event will have the Student Battle of the Bands winner opening the show, according to the <a href=\"https:\/\/events.unf.edu\/event\/ozfestivial?utm_campaign=widget&amp;utm_medium=widget&amp;utm_source=University+of+North+Florida\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">UNF Events website<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>___<\/p>\n<p>For more information or news tips, or if you see an error in this story or have any compliments or concerns, contact <a href=\"https:\/\/unfspinnaker.com\/cdn-cgi\/l\/email-protection\" class=\"__cf_email__\" data-cfemail=\"4722232e3328350732292134372e2929262c22356924282a\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">[email\u00a0protected]<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"In a UNF Student Government budget hearing, the Office of Student Life revealed that an OzFest artist has&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":138988,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[116,118,117],"class_list":["post-138987","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-jacksonville","tag-jacksonville","tag-jacksonville-headlines","tag-jacksonville-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/138987","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=138987"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/138987\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/138988"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=138987"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=138987"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=138987"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}