MIAMI \u2014 Electronic Dance Music fans from all over the world arrived on Friday afternoon at the Ultra Music Festival, which has been ongoing since 1999. <\/p>\n
The lines to get through a security screening at the UMF entrance at Bayfront Park extended along Biscayne Boulevard in Downtown Miami. <\/p>\n
Kescily Chipollne, a tourist from Hawaii, said EDM fans were \u201camazing people\u201d and described the high-energy atmosphere as \u201cMagic.\u201d<\/p>\n
DJs on the UMF\u2019s seven stages will play sets simultaneously until midnight. The DJs are also in town for the Miami Music Festival<\/a> and the Winter Music Conference<\/a>, which started in 1985. <\/p>\n Quiana Velez, a tourist from Orlando, said that attending UMF was a dream come true, and so far, the event had the \u201cbest vibe.\u201d<\/p>\n Lorenzo Gonzalez, a tourist from Boston, was excited about the three-day EDM DJs lineup. <\/p>\n \u201cIt is music, it is love each other, it is comfort,\u201d Gonzalez said. \u201cIt is vibes.\u201d<\/p>\n EDM fashionistas embraced the culture with neon, shimmer, and sparkle. Tony No, a tourist from Huntington Beach, wore black angel wings.<\/p>\n \u201cIt\u2019s a little rainy, but as long you have the right spirit, I don\u2019t care if a hurricane comes,\u201d he said, adding a comment about his outfit: \u201cMaybe I am the Huntington Beach Lady Gaga.\u201d<\/p>\n Carissa Lords, a tourist from San Diego, said she had been planning what to wear for months. <\/p>\n \u201c I\u2019ve been working on my outfit for probably four months now. This is actually a backup outfit,\u201d she said, adding, \u201cWe\u2019re gonna be ducks tomorrow.\u201d<\/p>\n Related stories<\/p>\n WeatherUltra Music Festival weather forecast TrafficBusy weekend impacts Downtown Miami traffic <\/p>\n Copyright 2026 by WPLG Local10.com – All rights reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"MIAMI \u2014 Electronic Dance Music fans from all over the world arrived on Friday afternoon at the Ultra…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":208934,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[123,125,124],"class_list":["post-208933","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-miami","tag-miami","tag-miami-headlines","tag-miami-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/208933","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=208933"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/208933\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/208934"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=208933"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=208933"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=208933"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}