Ultra Cofounder Russell Faibisch Talks Expansion Plans and Making Peace With WMC

Jose D. Duran March 15, 2011 8:45AM

After 13 years, Ultra Music Festival has managed to push aside the week that helped create it. Ballsy as the move may have been, we all knew Ultra had long overshadowed Winter Music Conference. With the conference's attendance at just 3,763 last year, the festival managed to sell out two full days worth of music, flooding Bicentennial Park with over 100,000 bodies.

In 2011, the festival has ballooned into a three-day monstrosity with over 200 acts and an expected attendance of 150,000. If that wasn't crazy enough, this year's edition of Ultra sold out 34 days before the actual event.

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Jose D. Duran is the associate editor of Miami New Times. He's the strategist behind the publication's eyebrow-raising Facebook and Twitter feeds. He has also been reporting on Miami's cultural scene since 2006. He has a BS in journalism and will live in Miami as long as climate change permits.

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