“The Trifecta of Dance Music Festivals: Ultra, EDC & Tomorrowland”

This paper dives in depth into Ultra Music Festival (UMF), Electric Daisy Carnival (EDC) and Tomorrowland and how they have impacted the electronic dance music music community. The paper focuses on festival culture and compares and contrasts the three upper echelon festivals against one another. Various forms of innovation and focus on an individual experience for consumers is what has elevated these three festivals to the top. Ultra, EDC and Tomorrowland are similar yet different in their own rights which allows them to stand out on their own.