Chicago’s ARC Music Pageant has introduced a sprawling 2025 lineup that includes practically 100 artists.
The fifth version of the house-focused competition will function performances by Jamie xx, Amelie Lens, Adam Beyer, Richie Hawtin, John Summit, Luciano, Fisher, Blond:ish, Eric Prydz (who will play beneath this identify and in addition do units beneath his Pryda and Cirez D aliases) and plenty of extra.
Moreover, the lineup contains a assortment powerhouse b2bs, together with Boys Noize b2b VTSS, Cajmere b2b Carl Craig, Honey Dijon b2b Derrick Carter, Inexperienced Velvet b2b Skepta Más Tiempo and Skream b2b Hamdi. See the entire lineup under.
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ARC Music Pageant 2025 occurs August 29-31 at Chicago’s Union Park. The overall ticket sale begins on March 14.
ARC is produced by the Chicago-based Auris Presents, a manufacturing firm launched in 2020 by companions Nick Karounos, a veteran venue proprietor and competition producer, Stuart Hackley, the founding father of nationwide occasion firm Loud Crowd and John Curley, who hails from digital promoter Paradigm Presents and who’s been a staple within the Chicago dance music scene because the early ’90s. The competition’s purpose has been celebrating home music’s Chicago roots whereas championing artists who’ve cast the style via the many years.
“You see a number of festivals that incorporate legends and innovators of a scene, they usually’re generally relegated to facet phases or decrease components of a lineup — locations the place their impression within the tradition of music just isn’t correctly mirrored,” Hackley advised Billboard in 2021. “That has to do with many issues — artist billing, ticket gross sales, artist’s profile measurement — however a part of our mission was to take all of the artists which might be a part of the Chicago home music neighborhood via the years, individuals with out whom this sound wouldn’t be round, and put them proper subsequent to the bigger artists which might be enjoying this music these days.”
