All About Electric Zoo Festival

New York City, NY, USA

Open air

XXL – 50k+

Electronic

$$$$

Live music

+3 Days

Electric Zoo is the gathering ground for electronic music fanatics in New York.

Ever since its first edition, the festival’s popularity has grown, bringing to it an ever burgeoning number of festival-goers each year.

Electric Zoo 2022’s edition dates are 2-4 September 2022. Go get your Electric Zoo 2022 tickets on Soundclub, the social app for live music experiences covering +2,000 festivals worldwide.

Electric Zoo 2022 lineup will include +100 artists. Amongst Electric Zoo 2022 artists to look for we can find Alan Walker, Deorro, and Duke Dumont.

Here’s everything you need to know about Electric Zoo festival. 

1. The festival features the best of electronic music

Whether you’re in love with electronic music or just a casual listener, Electric Zoo is where you’ve got to head to for its non-stop out-of-this-world music. The festival takes you on an immersive journey through a broad mix of electronic music subgenres that will have you bouncing off the ground, hands in the air, and yelling your heads off. Lose control to the heady rhythms of dubstep, trap, trance, house, and many other subgenres.

2. Electric Zoo festival has hosted top music artists 

Electronic music legends from all over the world have performed at this internationally renowned festival. This is a major feature that makes the festival one of the best of its kind.

Armin van Buuren, Deadmau5, David Guetta are just a few of the names that have set the stage on fire at the festival in the past years.

3. Electric Zoo’s popularity has been skyrocketing steadily

Electric Zoo’s first edition in 2009 attracted 26,000 people. The festival then expanded to three days, welcoming 85,000 attendees. That year, the festival crowd witnessed performances of over 100 artists across its several stages.

Ever since, the crowd at Electric Zoo has been escalating unwaveringly year after year. The festival’s popularity continued to rise, reaching an attendance of over 107,000 people in 2019, its highest attendance since 2013. 

4. Electric Zoo was established by Made Event

Electric Zoo festival was the brainchild of Made Event, an events coordinator, which created the wildly popular festival in 2009. A leading event services company in the United States, it mainly focuses on the promotion, production, and execution of electronic dance music events in the USA. This top event services company has organized many music events hosted by the greatest music artists and bands such as Dirt Monkey and Cheat Codes.

5. Electric Zoo has been nominated for several awards

Ever since its launch, the festival has managed to receive several nominations for the “Best Music Event” award in 2010, 2011, 2012, and 2013 at the International Dance Music Awards.

Also, DJ Mag named Electric Zoo one of the world’s top 50 festivals for 2019.

6. The festival expanded to an international scale

With a devoted population of electronic music fans all across the globe, it is no surprise that there has been a demand for a festival of this stature beyond the US. And so, after its immense success in the Big Apple,  the festival expanded beyond the country’s boundaries to reach Mexico, Brazil, Japan, and China.

7. The festival has had its share of setbacks

The 2013 edition of the festival was marred by tragedy when two of the festival attendees passed out and later died. After two successful days of concerts, the third day of the 2013 edition was canceled after the two festival-goers died from hyperthermia and an MDMA overdose during the festival.

Following the tragedy, authorities and citizens were up in arms against the issuance of permits for such events. Electric Zoo expressed their regret but made assurances of greater safety and security measures at its events in future.

8. The festival is known to give back

In 2010, Randall’s Island Sports Foundation and the Bronx Museum launched FLOW, an outdoor art exhibition project. This project was successfully launched with the help of Made Event and the Rockefeller NYC Cultural Innovation Fund. Electric Zoo contributed to the event’s success by donating US$2 to the project from every ticket sold at its 2011 edition.

9. Electric Zoo is environmentally conscious

The large festival has had a great impact not only on its fans but also on the environment. In 2011, the festival introduced an on-site recycling system for waste and water in cardboard containers, biodegradable plates, and utensils. Electric Zoo also switched to using 100% biodiesel alternative fuel and forced all food vendors to source only organic, hormone-free, ethically bred livestock.

Electric Zoo festival is a whole experience on its own. As the largest and longest-running electronic music festival in New York, it converts Randall’s Island Park into an unmissable magical musical wonderland for three days.