III Points Nominated for Pollstar Awards' Music Festival of the Year

Live music industry publication Pollstar has recognized Miami's homegrown music festival, III Points.

November 11, 2024

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III Points has been nominated for "Music Festival of the Year" at the Pollstar Awards. Photo by Adinayev for III Points

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Even after more than a decade, III Points still feels like Miami's best-kept secret. The annual music festival continues to bring underground and left-field acts to the Magic City for two days of nonstop performances.

Taking over the Mana Wynwood compound and the adjacent streets, the festival somehow manages to feel expansive in its footprint while still delivering an intimate experience. You aren't fighting thousands of people for a good spot, and traversing the grounds from stage to stage is mostly painless.

It seems, however, the word is out. Pollstar, the trade publication for the live music industry, recently announced the nominees for its 36th annual Pollstar Awards. III Points is nominated for "Music Festival of the Year (Global; under 30K attendance)". It will vie for the award against fellow nominees All Things Go in Columbia, Maryland; Inkcarceration Music & Tattoo Festival in Mansfield, Ohio; Newport Folk Festival in Newport, Rhode Island; Ohana Festival in Dana Point, California; and Two Step Inn in Georgetown, Texas.

Voting is open to Pollstar subscribers until December 6. Winners will be announced on February 19, 2025, at the Pollstar Live! Conference.

III Points started in 2013 with Jamie xx, James Murphy, and DJ Shadow as headliners. Since then, it has hosted countless performances, including acts like Gorillaz, Rosalía, LCD Soundsystem, MF Doom, Wu-Tang Clan, Erykah Badu, Iggy Pop, and Justice.

In addition to booking touring acts, the bulk of III Points' lineup continues to be local acts, making the festival an outlier. Most festival lineups consist of out-of-town acts from top to bottom, but supporting the Miami music scene has been paramount to the team behind III Points since the festival's inception.

Jose D. Duran is the former senior music editor of Miami New Times. His work has also appeared in publications likeVice, Billboard, and Spin. He’s earned numerous accolades including placing first for Weekly Newspaper Contest: Business Reporting from the Florida Press Association in 2020; placing third for the Writing: Light Feature from the Florida Press Club in 2019; and placing third in Weekly Newspaper Contest: Best Obituary from the Florida Press Association in 2015.

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