As pageant season — or at the very least the season of pageant lineups dropping — strikes into excessive gear, the Caribbean vacation spot fest SXM Festival has introduced its 2023 artist roster.
Touching down on the island of Saint Martin/Sint Maarten this March 8-12 can be a high-caliber posse of home and techno stars together with Marco Carola, DJ Tennis and Carlita performing collectively as Astra Club, a set from Francesca Lombardo, Dubfire Yokoo, Camelphat Mochaak and Gordo, the artist previously often known as Carnage. (The latter three have been additionally included on Tuesday’s 2023 Coachella lineup.)
Since launching in 2016, SXM has drawn followers from greater than 35 international locations. The five-day pageant occurs at areas all through the island, a territory of each France and The Netherlands, in venues together with a non-public jungle and seaside space, a villa and a seaside membership. Additionally, restricted capability “satellite” occasions will happen on the height of Sint Maarten’s highest mountain at sundown, together with a ship celebration cruising by way of the Caribbean’s largest lagoon and a catamaran cruise.
In 2017, after the island was devastated by Hurricane Irma — which left an estimated 95% of the French aspect of the island destroyed — SXM organizers collected greater than $38,000 for the reduction effort. The occasion was one of many few festivals to occur in 2020 earlier than the pandemic shut down the stay occasions area, and after a postponed 2021 occasion additionally as a result of pandemic, returned to Saint Martin/Sint Maarten in 2022.
The love for its island dwelling proceed by way of SXM’s deal with leaving a smaller footprint and serving to replenish the world’s pure environments by way of initiatives that embody going paperless, saving power with LED and photo voltaic lights, and eliminating plastic waste all through the pageant.
Tickets for SXM Festival 2023 are on sale now.
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