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The 2024 edition of Breakaway Bay Area, which returned to the Bill Graham Civic Auditorium in San Francisco. was a spectacular experience. It brought tons of great bass, mesmerizing audiovisuals, electrifying pyrotechnics, and importantly, a lot of fans just having a great time jamming to amazing music on the weekend of October 25-26. Just like last year’s event, Breakaway Bay Area 2024 was a celebration of not just the world-class dance/electronic music that wowed the crowd over those two days, but also of PLUR culture, festival lifestyle, and all-around infectious fun alongside friends and beautiful strangers who love the same kind of vibes.
These same vibes also perfectly align well with the Halloween theme that the festival had for the weekend, especially seeing many attendees dressed in colorful and outstanding costumes. Here is the review of the 2024 edition of Breakaway Bay Area, an event that brought out the vibrant Halloween atmosphere that connects perfectly well with a festival environment that ensures the bass and synths from the artists remain top-notch from start to finish.
Breakaway Bay Area 2024 continued enhancing the vibes with each set from the artists
October 25th had the likes of Cat Liu, REMK, Jaded, Ian Asher, Alok, Wax Motif, and Marshmello providing phenomenal entertainment at Bill Graham Civic Auditorium. Alok’s set merged the best of electro house with techno, which also perfectly teamed up with stunning utilization of pyros illuminating the stage and lasers moving around the venue. As soon as Marshmello got on the stage, the crowd went wild and jammed out to great hits such as ‘Alone’ and ‘Here With Me’. His performances proved why he has received multiple awards and nominations from notable award shows like the American Music Awards, Billboard Music Awards, and iHeartRadio Music Awards.
October 26th (Day 2) had the likes of L4NCELOT, Kastra, Control Freak, Wreckno, INZO, a powerful b2b set of Joyryde and Habstrakt, and RL Grime throw down some fire beats. The B2B set of Joyryde and Habstrakt was just bass house at its perfect level and RL Grime showed why he is a top superstar trap and bass by unleashing banger after banger that no one could not stop grooving to. Additionally, the festival also witnessed the return of the ‘Launch Pad’ stage, the smaller stage of Breakaway Bay Area located on the left side of the auditorium that equally producing sets of spectacular music over the festival’s two days. ‘Silent Disco‘ also returned to the festival as well for those two days, providing three stations of awesome music from local up-and-coming producers for the attendees who were looking for a break from the main stage and ‘Launch Pad’.
The cool vibes at the festival
Breakaway Bay Area 2024 overall was an unforgettable experience that allowed the attendees to discover a lot of fun things to do while jamming out to very great dance/electronic music. The festival’s sponsors also were attractions that hooked the attendees to enjoy the products that were at the festival as well. The sponsors were Celsius, Beatbox, Cuervo, Bacardi, Lunchbox, Loose Lucys, Jeeter, and LA-based nonprofit End Overdose, which has its main goal to end drug overdose-related deaths.
One thing that was very notable were the Celsius signs around the venue. One place in particular was the Celsius lounge booth at the back of the main stage where fans can get free cans of Celsius energy drinks (as long as they had valid orange wristbands that provide eligibility for the fans to obtain those drinks. In addition, the merchandise available for the fans to purchase at the festival were also unforgettable as well, ranging from cute pins to mesmerizing fans. This 2024 edition of Breakaway Bay Area does definitely will motivate anyone who attended over the weekend to look forward to another exciting edition of the festival next year.
