Sun City Music Festival was an annual electronic music festival held over Labor Day weekend in El Paso, Texas at Ascarate Park. In its opening year, the festival was held at Cohen Stadium. The festival represents all genres of electronic music, bringing top international DJs and live acts from multiple countries along with local producers and radio personalities to three stages, one of them being the Beatport Stage. The festival was founded by SMG Events and Disco Donnie Presents. On May 9, 2018, it was announced through the Sun City Music Festival Twitter account that the festival would not be happening.
History
2011-2017
In its inaugural year in 2011, an estimated 20,000 people attended to see artists Armin van Buuren, Afrojack, Wolfgang Gartner, Martin Solveig, and many others. In 2012, SCMF, as it is commonly known by attendees, moved to Ascarate Park. It has remained at Ascarate Park until its last occurrence in 2017.
Since 2018: Hiatus
On May 2018, it was announced that Sun City Music Festival would not be held but that there were hopes of coming back in 2019. There was never a reason cited for why the festival was canceled, with SCMF's announcement only saying, "...the Disco and SMG teams work diligently to ensure every single time you enter the gates of Sun City Music Festival, the best possible experience awaits you. Throughout the calendar year, the SCMF team works extremely hard to meet this momentous task with rigorous standards in place. Unfortunately, we don’t believe that goal can be accomplished in 2018." As of August 2020, the last update on the festival was by Disco Donnie stating: "*SCMF - its [sic] complicated *Starting A New Festival During a Pandemic - its [sic] complicated... Ascarate was nice enough to move my deposit and dates to 2021. Buts [sic] its [sic] still going to be complicated."
2011 Lineup
Afrojack
Ambivalent
Andy C & MC GQ
Armin Van Buuren
Chris Lake
Chuckie
Cookie Monsta
Cosmic Gate
Crystal Castles
Dusty Kid
Exceed
Feed Me
Funkagenda
Gabriel & Dresden
High Contrast
Joachim Garraud
LA Riots (DJ) Martin Solveig Nero Paul Van Dyk Sander Van Doorn Sidney Samson Showtek Sunnery James & Ryan Marciano Sub Focus Wolfgang Gartner Zedd
2012 Lineup
David Guetta
Zedd
Flux Pavilion
Knife Party
Dada Life
Above & Beyond
Nicky Romero
Dillon Francis
Sander van Doorn
Modestep
John Dahlback
Kill The Noise
Morgan Page
Gesaffelstein
Downlink
Joris Voorn
Dirtyphonics
Umek
Brodinski
Riva Starr
M.A.N.D.Y
Alvin Risk
Crizzly
Stefano Noferini
Lucky Date
Destructo
Revolvr
Audrey Napoleon
Dirty Audio
Gina Turner
Kevin Focus
Funk Agenda
Nick Fanciulli
2013 Lineup
Armin van Buuren
Tiesto
Steve Aoki
Alesso
Adventure Club
Baauer
Borgore
Brodinski
Candyland
Cassy
Crizzly
Danny Avila
Deniz Koyu
Deorro
Dillon Francis
Dimitri Vegas & Like Mike
Droog
Eats Everything
Flosstradamus
French Fries (DJ) Gesaffelstein GTA John Digweed Just Blaze Kill Paris Le Castle Vania Markus Schulz Ookay Scuba Sebastien Leger Seven Lions Stefano Noferini TJR Zomboy
2014 Lineup
Tiesto
Martin Garrix
David Guetta
Above & Beyond
Carnage
Showtek
W&W
Aly & Fila
Amin Edge & Dance
Andrew Rayel
Bryan Kearney
Candyland
Cash Cash
Chris Lake
Cosmic Gate
Deorro
Dubfire
Headhunterz
Hobo
Hot Since 82
Loco Dice
Luminox
M4SONIC
Nicole Moudaber
Ookay
Orjan Nilsen
Otto Knows
Party Favor
Paul van Dyk
Sian
Slander
Spektre
TJR
Thomas Newson
Zomboy
2015 Lineup
On May 20, 2015, it was reported that the lineup would consist of house, techno, trance, electro house, and other genres.