Spring Awakening (festival)

Spring Awakening Music Festival
Arty at Spring Awakening in 2014
Genre	Progressive house, Dubstep, Electro house, Techno, Trance, Trap
Dates	June 09–11, 2017
Location(s)	Addams/Medill Park, Chicago, Illinois
Years active	2012–2017
Website
www.springawakeningfestival.com

Spring Awakening Music Festival is an electronic music festival that takes place in Chicago, Illinois. The festival took place at Soldier Field 2012–2015. The festival had announced it was being held at Jackson Park (2016). However, Jackson Park has fallen through (due to an overly active mole population ruining facilities) since the announcement and the new location is Addams/Medill Park. As the Midwest increases its tastes of the subgenres in electronic dance music (EDM), Spring Awakening Music Festival (SAMF) is the place to be for a festival season kick off.

Spring Awakening was founded as a concert series in 2008. The event eventually outgrew the theater, and in 2012 SAMF was turned into a two-day outdoor festival at Soldier Field by the Chicago-based promoting agency React Presents. In 2013,Spring Awakening Music Festival expanded to three days with over 90,000 people in attendance. SAMF has been held either the second or third weekend of June Over the years, the Festival has become increasingly popular due to the large fan base of electronic dance music in the Chicago area. As people now come from across the globe just to attend the Festival, there are discussed rumors that the Festival could be extending onwards towards many other states.

SAMF was made into a two-day festival held on June 16–17, 2012 at Soldier Field.

The festival was initially announced to occupy the "Stadium Green" surrounding Soldier Field, but after overwhelming demand, the festival moved from the main stage inside of the stadium to the north end zone of Soldier Field. Over 50,000 people attended Spring Awakening Music festival 2012.

Some of the main performers included Skrillex, Afrojack, Diplo, A-Track, Benny Benassi, Dillon Francis, Moby, Flux Pavilion, Hardwell, Datsik, Crlcox, Morgan Page and more.

SAMF had its second annual electronic dance music (EDM) festival from June 14–16, 2013 at Soldier Field.