ThePortola Music Festivalplans to return to San Francisco for a second year.
The two-day concert — produced by Goldenvoice, the promotion company behind the Coachella Valley Music & Arts and Stagecoach music festivals in Southern California — plans to come back to Pier 80 on Sept. 30 and Oct. 1, with headlinersSkrillexandEric Prydz.
The lineup also includes Canadian pop singerNelly Furtado,他预计执行她的第一次U.S. show since 2007, alongside British Japanese breakout star Rina Sawayama and electronic dance music acts such as Basement Jaxx, Chris Lake, Armand Van Helden, Little Simz, Hot Chip, Underworld, FKJ, Polo & Pan, Labrinth, and Major Lazer.
Tickets for this year’s festival, starting at $229.95, go on sale at 10 a.m. Monday, May 22, for fans who register atportolamusicfestival.com. The public sale opens at 10 a.m. Wednesday, May 24.
Despitea few inaugural-year challenges— such as overcrowding and performer M.I.A. dropping out at the last minute — the first edition of the festival drew thousands of attendees to the city’s primary cargo terminal for EDM acts such as Flume, Chemical Brothers and Toro y Moi for what was widely considered a successful event.
The biggest issue wasa series of noise complaintswhich the festival promoter addressed by promising to do better next time.
“We did receive some complaints on the S.F. side of the bay, but most complaints received were from across the bay in different areas of Alameda,” Darren Carroll, community relations manager for the festival’s promoter Goldenvoice, wrote in a letter obtained by The Chronicle.
Carroll’s letter acknowledges the promoter’s lack of experience in running a festival on the city’s waterfront, noting that it did not properly anticipate how sound travels across the bay.
“Needless to say, we will need to do more technical strategizing on ways to mitigate sound travel and increase our radius of community outreach, if we plan to return,” he said.
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