Fyre Festival 2 'postponed' after Mexico plans derailed, ticket vendor issues refunds

According to a statement provided to Fox News Digital by the ticketing company collaborating with Fyre Festival 2, the anticipated event in Mexico set to commence next month has been officially delayed. This announcement comes only a week after the organizers assured a successful outcome for the event.

Billy McFarland, the mind behind the calamitous original Fyre Festival that took place eight years ago, spent four years in prison for financial offenses. The ill-fated festival in 2017 pledged top-tier music performances and entertainment to attendees, but it turned out to be a scheme that defrauded many individuals of significant amounts of money.

“The information available suggests that the coordinators of Fyre Festival 2 have indeed pushed back the event. Presently, there has been no disclosure of a new date or venue,” stated SoldOut.com, identified as a partner of Fyre Festival 2 on the event’s official site. SoldOut.com informed Fox News Digital, “All customers who bought tickets directly through SOLDOUT.COM have been refunded in full. Our unwavering dedication to customer contentment is underscored by our 100% Money-Back Guarantee, applicable to all events featured on our platform.”

But despite the apparent postponement, nothing on the event’s website or social media pages mentioned anything about a postponement. As of Friday morning, Fyre Festival was still promoting merchandise on its Instagram account — namely, sweatshirts that read, “Fyre Festival 2 is real.”

Fyre Festival attendees eat and drink on dirt-covered ground

Fyre Festival attendees eat under a tent at the original Fyre Festival in the Bahamas in 2017. (Splash News)

In 2017, Fyre Festival guests arrived in the Bahamas to find bare-bones tents when they were promised luxury accommodations; cheap, boxed meals when they were promised a high-end culinary experience; unclean port-o-potties; and canceled music acts that they paid to see over the course of the festival.

The original Fyre Fest promised music acts including Blink 182, Migos and other artists; celebrity model attendees, including the Hadid sisters and Emily Ratajkowski; luxury accommodations and fine food, with tickets ranging from $1,200 to over $100,000. 

After the festival’s failure, it went viral on social media when Hulu and Netflix published documentaries about the failed beach bash, making the #fyrefraud hashtag go viral at the time.

The festival reached a settlement with 277 ticket holders in 2021, when it was ordered to pay each recipient an award of $7,220.

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