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Fyre Festival was a fraudulent luxury music festival organized by American businessman Billy McFarland and American rapper Ja Rule. It was originally created to promote the company's Fyre app for booking music talent. The festival was scheduled to take place on April 28–30 and May 5–7, 2017, on the Bahamian island of Great Exuma.
He later founded and was CEO of Fyre Media, which developed the Fyre mobile app for booking music talent. In late 2016, along with rapper Ja Rule, McFarland co-founded the Fyre Festival, a "luxury" music festival intended to promote the Fyre app. The event was scheduled to take place April 28–30 and May 5–7, 2017, but was aborted – after ...
The second iteration of the festival will take place in Isla Mujeres from May 30 to June 2 Billy McFarland Shares Details of Second Fyre Festival as Tickets Go for Up to $1.1 Million After He ...
Fyre (also known as Fyre: The Greatest Party That Never Happened) is a 2019 American documentary film directed by Chris Smith. It chronicles the planning, failure, and aftermath of the 2017 Fyre Festival , putting the blame primarily on the event's organizer, businessman Billy McFarland .
The failed festival’s ups and downs were documented in the 2019 documentary FYRE. Though Fyre Festival II’s limited 2,000 tickets are on sale, no musical acts for the event have been announced.
“Fyre Festival II is happening April 25, 2025,” McFarland told NBC News exclusively on Sept. 9. “We have a private island off the coast of Mexico in the Caribbean, and we have an incredible ...
The film was met with a positive response from critics upon its release. On the review aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes, 79% of 29 critics' reviews of the film are positive, with an average rating of 6.3/10; the site's "critics consensus" reads: "In the battle over Fyre Festival content, Fyre Fraud comes out swinging with a questionable interview of conman Billy McFarland and a thoughtful ...
Fyre Festival, a fraudulent, widely criticized music concert on the Bahamian island of Great Exuma Fyre Fraud, a 2019 Hulu documentary about the Fyre Festival; Fyre, a 2019 Netflix documentary film about the Fyre Festival; Fyre, a fantasy novel in the Septimus Heap series by Angie Sage; Fyre (software), a digital tool for producing artwork