Neon City Festival’s list of headliners are as wide-ranging as the festival’s downtown footprint. Seattle rapper Macklemore , Utah New Wave stalwarts Neon Trees , Australian DJ-Producer Alison Wonderland , country-pop favorite Russell Dickerkson and adventurous EDM DJ/producer Seven Lions are all booked for NCF’s inaugural spectacle. The first-time event released its lineup Thursday, with a big-reveal show at Fremont Street Experience’s Viva Vision canopy.
The festival runs alongside (but is not affiliated with) F1 Las Vegas Grand Prix on Nov. 22-24. The event is free to all ages; go to neoncityfestival.
com for intel. Additional acts and the art/F&B specifics are to be announced. Wonderland plays the Downtown Las Vegas Events Center stage.
There are four stages available, including the three FSE stages used every night for no-cover entertainment. The other performance times and venues are still to be announced. The event mixes music, art and culinary offerings, and is a partnership of all downtown Las Vegas resorts.
Derek Stevens , co-owner of Circa, the D Las Vegas and Golden Gate co-owner, is the event’s creator. More than vroom-vroom Stevens emphasizes the simple strategy is to draw the masses by going after folks who want something to do in Las Vegas aside from the F1 race, or who might be in town for the Raiders-Broncos game Nov. 24.
“The key thing is, we wanted to have a broad range of genres,” Stevens said in a phone chat this week. “We wanted to do an .