III Points announces 2020 dates. Event will return to Wynwood for shorter festival.
Organizers of Miami-based music and arts festival III Points have announced the dates for its 2020 event, and things will be a little different this time.
Typically a weekend-long festival, the 2020 event will run two nights on May 1-2 in Wynwood. The dates have been pushed from the end of February to May due to logistics related to Super Bowl 54, festival co-founder David Sinopoli told Miami New Times. Super Bowl 54 would be held weeks before the festival.
“We tried February, it was great, but with the Super Bowl happening in Miami … We decided to get out of February [next] year,” Sinopoli said.
Details on the lineup, art installations and ticket prices will be announced at a later date.
It will be the seventh installment of III Points, which has changed schedules in the past. For its first five years, the event was held in October, first at various venues across the arts district and then at Mana Wynwood. The announcement for the 2020 installment does not list any specific venue or venues. The 2017 festival was impacted after Hurricane Matthew altered some artists’ travel arrangements and forced performers such as LCD Soundsytem and Earl Sweatshirt to cancel their sets. After a 16-month gap, the festival returned to Mana in February 2019 with a lineup that included Herbie Hancock, Erykah Badu and Beach House.
Sinopoli also told the New Times that the festival will run two days instead of three because organizers won’t be able to take advantage of three-day weekends — in previous years, the event was scheduled on Columbus Day and Presidents’ Day weekends.
This story was originally published December 2, 2019 at 3:59 PM.
