Fyre Festival 2, organized by would-be party planner turned convicted conman Billy McFarland, was indefinitely postponed just weeks before its scheduled dates in Playa del Carmen, Mexico, after local authorities denied any record or approval for the event.
Ticket holders, who paid at least $1,400, were issued automatic refunds following confusion and removal of postponement notices from the festival website.
“Fyre 2 Festival is postponed and will be rescheduled for a later date in the future,” the now-deleted webpage reads. “If you have purchased tickets already, you will receive an email once the new date is confirmed.”
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Organizers blamed local authorities for venue complications and claimed to be seeking a new location, but no artists, permissions, or concrete plans were ever confirmed, and officials noted the event’s published coordinates pointed only to the ocean.
Widespread skepticism and mockery have emerged online, as the event appeared to repeat the infamous 2017 festival’s failures and McFarland’s history of fraud.
If you or someone you know is planning to go to this after everything that went down, you are not a victim. You are a moron.
You deserve every soggy cheese sandwich in that FEMA tent surrounded by your fellow morons. pic.twitter.com/aN7iXwjqOx
— VINCENT OSHANA (@VincentOshana) April 17, 2025
These developments are strikingly reminiscent of the scandalous events surrounding the first Fyre Festival.
The historic failure of Fyre Festival 1.0 lives in infamy in the world of live entertainment. Alongside rapper Ja Rule, Billy McFarland presented the festival as a one-of-a-kind luxury experience that would feature the biggest names in music. The event was further promoted by celebrities and social media influencers, many of whom had secretly been paid for their endorsement. Tickets to Fyre Festival sold for hundreds of dollars apiece, and thousands of people planned to attend. However, when guests first began to arrive on the Bahamian island of Great Exuma in April 2017, the setup they found was a far cry from what McFarland had promised.
Instead of luxurious private villas and gourmet dining, guests were met with small, quickly-assembled tents and prepackaged sandwiches. As more people began to arrive, the island’s underdeveloped infrastructure began to collapse, leading to widespread problems with security, sanitation, food and lodging, and medical services. Soon, headlining acts started pulling out of the event and guests were left stranded for days with nowhere to go.
Eventually, the event was canceled and attendees were encouraged to go home after being promised a full refund. McFarland and Ja Rule were hit with several class action lawsuits seeking more than $100 million in damages, and McFarland was sentenced to six years in prison for mail and wire fraud in connection with the debacle.
Despite McFarland’s assertions that Fyre 2 “is real,” the lack of permits and logistical clarity seems to have led to the event’s collapse once again. Organizers have promised to announce new dates and locations at an unspecified time.
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