RETROSPEKT Miami Festival announces Chromeo, Ghostface Killah, TYCHO, Drag Brunch, Mezcal tastings & more

RETROSPEKT Announces Lineup at the Moxy South Beach Hotel Miami for Micro Music Festival July 10 and 11, 2021

Featuring Chromeo, Ghostface Killah, Sabrina Claudio, TYCHO: ISO50 +45, and more

More Experiences Include a Drag Queen Brunch, Mezcal Tastings, Aerialist and Circus Performances & Large Scale Art Installations

Ideaison announces the lineup for RETROSPEKT a two-day multi-genre immersive micro music and art festival at the Moxy South Beach on July 10-11, 2021. The female-founded festival’s focus is on representation and diversity, from the production team to the talent.

RETROSPEKT will integrate over 50 live acts from all genres of music spanning blues, rock, rap, pop, r&b, funk, soul, reggae, dance music & more. Headliners include WuTang Clan’s Ghostface Killah, Sabrina Claudio, who is set to open for The Weeknd’s “After Hours” North American tour at the end of the year, Tycho’s new project ISO50, which is his solo live show with guitar and keyboards, basically his station from the band show with different performance elements, New York’s funk lords themselves Chromeo, and more. Other up and coming talent includes Detroit’s respected DJ and producer DJ Minx, disco and house king Eli Escobar, Tik Tok sensation Blu DeTiger, bluesy bedroom pop vocalist Mia Gladstone, British R&B crooner Col3trane, Grammy-nominated New Orleans based Tank and the Bangas, Vindata (who have collaborated with Skrillex), Miami’s Life on Planets, Sofia Valdes and Judith Hill, and over 30+ more national and internationally touring acts. Local favorites include, but aren’t limited to The Hails, Xperimento, Afrobeta, The Ries Brothers, Kathy Palma, Yoli Mayor and more.

Sets will be programmed across three custom-designed stages designed and curated by Molly Surno, whose company Push Projects was hired to art direct Brooklyn‘s dance music club Elsewhere and in collaboration with Maktive, the creative geniuses behind Electric Zoo, Splash House, and Friendship Cruise and Aerial Dragons, a Florida-based aerial entertainment and circus collective. The main stage will be at the pool.

Outside of more than 50 sets across three stages, there will be a hyper focus on immersive and theatrical art. The names of the stages: the past, present and future, will come to life designed as their entities—the live streams will look like music videos with the fans in the action. Fans on-site will be offered ancillary experiences including a retrospective zone at the past stage, by the nonprofit To Write Love on Her Arms, a Drag Queen Brunch curated by House of Yes’s Resident Artist Madame Vivien V, mezcal tastings, aerialist and circus performances by Aerial Dragons, a Florida based aerial entertainment group, a cereal and cartoon bar curated by illustrator Joe Palec and more.

The new kind of “micro” music festival (under 1K capacity/day) was born from the success of a virtual music festival in the heart of Covid. Now it’s going “hybrid” as the experience, and fans will be live-streamed on Twitch, with select acts paid per show on Cisco Adler & Donavon Frankenreiter’s Concert Live stream platform Nocap. A limited capacity will be afforded the opportunity of being in the stream and at the shows LIVE in Miami.

Lauren Kashuk, Founder and Creative Director of Ideaison, the producers, promoters, and creators of RETROSPEKT explains:
“One thing you will notice is that our festival and lineup is rich in diversity. The problem with the quest to be more “diverse” rests in and with the key decision-maker. If there isn’t a woman or someone diverse at the leadership level, inclusion is viewed as an afterthought. It’s viewed as a checkmark when the day-to-day culture and bias go unaffected. The team, the vision, will not be built in a way that honors all as equal. Underrepresented people are excluded from the room where the music is written and produced, ignored when strategizing promotion, and then disregarded or underestimated as headliners. We’re not down with that. The industry must move from agonizing over the numbers and executing and expanding upon a new path. Taking a chance as talent on RETROSPEKT with a mission, like ours, allows talent/managers/agents and partners alike to take real and concrete steps to address bias and ensure access for the talent to the opportunities that remain closed to them.”

Fans can visit the RETROSPEKT website or Instagram for more information and festival updates.

Limited 2-day and single-day tickets and hotel packages are on sale on the website.

More information on Ideaison is here

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