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10,000 turn up for Ultra Music Festival 2020 in Taiwan

Featuring Alesso, Kayzo, Slander, Vini Vici, and more

As countries attempt to move forward with socially distanced gigs and pilot live performances, Taiwan just held the world’s first full-scale electronic dance music festival during the pandemic.

Last Saturday (14/11), the Ultra Music Festival took place with 10,000 people in attendance at the Dajie Riverside Park in Taipei. The event falls under the roster of Road to Ultra (RTU), a series of single-stage festivals around the world put together by the Ultra team.

This year’s Taiwan edition boasted international acts including Alesso, Kayzo, Slander, and Vini Vici, while homegrown acts consisted of DJ Junior, DJ Pei Pei, and Ray Ray. The show was live streamed to a global audience, with hits such as ‘Midnight’, ‘Last Resort’, ‘Love Is Gone’, and more played live.

This year the closing slot has been in the hands of Alesso who, as everyone in the industry hasn’t played a festival since February. The performance was live-streamed for the first 45 minutes and he played a fresh and unique set mixing together classics and playing some new exclusive tunes.

The Ultra Music Festival in Taiwan came after the country reported no locally transmitted COVID-19 cases in more than 200 days. On the day of the event, Taiwan had just hit the 600 mark, with more than 500 being imported cases.