CRSSD Festival announces 2018 spring lineup

Dec. 19, 2017 1:07 PM PT

CRSSD Festival, the three-year-old electronic and dance music extravaganza at San Diego’s Waterfront Park, will hold its spring 2018 edition on March 3 and 4.

The initial lineup, announced Tuesday, includes Empire of the Sun, Cirez D, Sasha, Gorgon City and Jai Wolf. Among the other confirmed acts are Shiba San, Anna Lunoe, Tchami, Little Dragon, Lee Burridge, MK, Alan Fitzpatrick, and Boys Don’t Disco.

Tickets for the 21-and-up event will go on sale Dec. 26 at noon at the CRSSD Festivalwebsite. Prices have not yet been disclosed for the seventh edition of the twice-a-year-fete, which has drawn a capacity daily audience of 15,000 for most of its previous editions.

As in previous years, techno and deep house will be the prominent music styles featured. Also, as in previous years, a number of the performers hail from other countries, including England’s Bonobo (real name: Simon Green), Spain’s Henry Saiz, Sweden’s Little Dragon, Germany’s Patrice Baumel, Belgium’s Charlotte de Witte and Amelie Lens, Australia’s Anna Lunoe, and Nicole Moudaber, who is Lebanese-Nigerian.

The spring 2018 lineup also includes Camelphat, Cristoph, DJDS, Eli Brown, JP Soul, Kartell, Kyle Watson, Mark Knight, Max Chapman, Medasin, Molly, NoMBe, Nora En Pure, Rodriguez Jr. (LIVE), Sébastien V, SNBRN, The Presets, Walker & Royce and Wax Motif.

Performances will take place on three outdoor stages at Waterfront Park. The festival is produced by San Diego’s FNGRS CRSD, which staged the festival’s debut in March of 2015 and drew a capacity audience its first day.

Here, in alphabetical order, is the complete initial lineup for the spring 2018 edition of CRSSD Festival:

Alan Fitzpatrick

Amelie Lens

Anna Lunoe

Bonobo (LIVE)

Boys Don’t Disco

Camelphat

Charlotte de Witte

Cirez D

Cristoph

DJDS

Eli Brown

Empire Of The Sun

Gorgon City (LIVE)

Gryfinn

Henry Saiz & Band

Jai Wolf

JP Soul

Kartell

Kyle Watson

Lee Burridge

Little Dragon

Mark Knight

Max Chapman

Medasin

Molly

Nicole Moudaber

NoMBe

Nora En Pure

Patrice Baumel

Rodriguez Jr. (LIVE)

Sasha

Sébastien V

Shiba San

SNBRN

Tchami

The Presets

Walker & Royce

Wax Motif

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George Varga

San Diego Union-Tribune music critic George Varga began drumming in rock bands at 12 and writing professionally about music at 15. A Louisiana native who grew up mostly in Germany, Varga has earned three Pulitzer Prize nominations for his writing at the U-T and is a voting member of the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. In addition to providing live coverage of the Grammy Awards and festivals from Coachella and KAABOO to the 1994 edition of Woodstock, he has interviewed everyone from Miles Davis, Britney Spears and (over a game of chess) Ray Charles to Willie Nelson, Kanye West and Pulitzer Prize-winning composer Anthony Davis. A triple first prize-winner for criticism and arts writing at the 2022 San Diego Press Club awards and a first prize-winner at the 2022 San Diego Society of Professional Journalists awards, Varga is also a contributing writer for Jazz Times magazine and has written for Billboard, Spin and other publications. After attending San Diego City College and San Diego State University, he created and taught the 2002 UC San Diego Extension course, “Jazz in a Post-Ken-Burns World.” Varga has written liner notes for more than a dozen albums, including by jazz sax greats James Moody and Michael Brecker, and contributed two chapters to the book, “Dylan: Disc By Disc.”