We Belong Here To Take Place For Third Annual Year In Virginia Key
|February 1, 2024|
The boutique festival We Belong Here is taking place for the third annual year on Feb. 24-25 at Historic Virginia Key Beach Park, featuring a lineup of house, techno and dance music artists, including Bob Moses (Club Set), Gordo, Tchami, Wax Motif and more on the festival’s signature 360-degree stage.
In addition to the main stage, the festival will also feature stage takeovers from Lane 8's melodic house record label, This Never Happened, and Deep Root Records, food curated by Smorgasburgand local art, all situated right along the beachfront.
Lane 8 performed a beautiful 3-hour sunset set at this past festival, and this label takeover will give fans a chance to dive deeper into rapidly rising artists, including Embrz, Jerro, Le Youth, Luzi Tudor, Massane and Ocula, who fans can expect at this stage.
Deep Root Records will be bringing the classic and afro house sounds it has helped bring to the forefront of dance music culture right to the beach. One of the few 100% black-owned labels in dance music, founded by Francis Mercier and Ajamu Kambon, will be curating an eclectic group of global artists spanning from Miami to Africa and beyond, including standouts Nitefreak and MoBlack.
"We set out to create a festival that would be appealing to our friends and family that had outgrown the current festival and club scene. We believed there would be a greater demand for something like this than what existed in just our network,” said Justin Dauman, Co-Founder of We Belong Here. "The community of music lovers that has come together from the initial festivals is our motivation to keep improving and build something that we can all look forward to every year. Without a doubt, we believe this will be the best year yet.”
Smorgasburg Miami, the popular open-air food market in Wynwood, is returning to We Belong Here for a second year, bringing festival-goers a diverse selection of culinary options from over 15 local vendors. Smorgasburg is a weekly open-air food market that was founded in Brooklyn, in 2011 and has since expanded to other cities, including Miami, with many vendors being small businesses that are owned and operated by local residents.