The revelers are arriving and the first night of the 2017 Electric Daisy Carnival is getting underway at Las Vegas Motor Speedway.
Electric Daisy Carnival
Vehicles faced delays of about 90 minutes just after 9 p.m. Friday on parts of Interstate 15 leading to the Las Vegas Motor Speedway, the site of the Electric Daisy Carnival.
The Las Vegas sun sets on the electric sky tonight.
With Electric Daisy Carnival in town this weekend, SLS Las Vegas has created a drink especially for music fans on their way to and from the speedway, or anyone else who just wants to get into the spirit.
McCarran International Airport served up a Las Vegas-style nightclub atmosphere that brought out smiles, some nodding heads and a few impressive moves for about six hours Thursday to kick off the Electric Daisy Carnival.
The eight stages at Electric Daisy Carnival each carry their own theme and cater to a different style of electronic dance music, for the most part. Event founder Pasquale Rotella breaks down each of them:
“There’s no news, no political tweets showing up. The only thing that anybody at the festival has to think about is the festival itself and the people around them,” says Las Vegas-based DJ 3lau.
Nearly anyone hitting Interstate 15 this weekend can expect some jams.
He’s made the trek for 20 years now, but it was a plastic ring scored from a liquor store coin machine that made one trip especially memorable.
Though Nevadans voted to legalize recreational marijuana last fall, the law restricts using the drug in public, and police officers won’t be giving anyone a free pass to light up this weekend at the Electric Daisy Carnival.
The Electric Daisy Carnival descends once again on Las Vegas this weekend.
Party seekers from across the country with loud hair, bright makeup and eccentric fashions will descend on Las Vegas for the annual Electric Daisy Carnival next week.
Just about everyone in Las Vegas will have something to rave about during the Electric Daisy Carnival next weekend when roughly 400,000 revelers make their way to Las Vegas Motor Speedway for three days of high-energy music.
Marshmello and Porter Robinson are among the electronic dance music stars who will play Las Vegas Motor Speedway June 16 to 18.
Insomniac, the production company behind North America’s largest dance music festival the Electric Daisy Carnival, this morning revealed the final phase of parties taking over the Las Vegas Strip during 2017 EDC Week from June 12-19.