Dada Life, Borgore to perform today at Bounce Music Festival

Swedish electronic dance music DJs Dada Life and Israeli dubstep producer Borgore will perform tonight at Bounce Music Festival.

The festival will begin at 6 p.m. at Mike’s Music and Dance Barn on State Road 46.

Originally scheduled at Pic-A-Chic Farms, the concert has been moved due to safety concerns about high winds and rain expected as a result of Hurricane Sandy.

All concert tickets previously purchased are still valid.

General admission tickets cost $40 plus a $7.20 service charge and are still available at  bouncemusicfestival.com.

Concert tickets will also be available at the door for a higher price, festival cofounder Jared Lyons said.

Buses will run from McNutt Quad and Kilroy’s Bar and Grill to the new venue. Bus tickets cost $10.

Lyons founded Bounce Music Festival last September with Brandon Silverstein.

The pair ran nightclubs prior to their arrival in Indiana but were looking for the next step forward, Lyons said.

“We wanted to provide something bigger and better,” Lyons said in an email. “From that came Bounce Music Festival.”

Lyons, a junior finance major at the Kelley School of Business, said he works to find a balance between school and the festival.
“I constantly need to manage my time between the two,” Lyons said. “While traveling from show to show, I spend as much spare time as possible taking care of any work I may have as well as studying for future exams.”

Bounce Music Festival made its premiere in Bloomington last October with a concert by Avicii and Lazy Rich.

The concert was met with “extremely great feedback,” Lyons said, and has since expanded to become a national and international EDM festival.

In March, Lyons said he and Silverstein teamed up with college travel company Xtreme Trips to bring the festival to a “30-day musical experience” in Puerto Vallarta, Mexico.

A month later, Bounce Music Festival returned to Bloomington with a Tiësto concert during Little 500 week.

More than 10,000 tickets were sold for the concert that also featured Alesso, Tim Mason and Topher Jones.

The festival tries to improve the scale of its production and showcase different EDM artists with every concert, according to the press release.

“We are constantly searching for the new ‘hit’ act,” Lyons said. “By choosing Dada Life and Borgore we attacked multiple genres in the EDM world, giving fans a great musical experience.”

— Kate Thacker