The Chainsmokers, Duran Duran and Zedd will headline KAABOO Cayman debut festival

San Diego Union-Tribune

May 15, 2018 5:30 AM PT

The Chainsmokers, who co-headlined the 2016 edition of the KAABOO Del Mar Festival just north of San Diego, will top the bill for the debut edition of KAABOO Cayman.

The new festival, which takes place Feb. 15-16, will be held on Grand Cayman’s Seven Mile Beach in the Caribbean.

Among the co-headliners for KAABOO Cayman are Duran Duran, Zedd and Bryan Adams. The lineup also features a number of acts who have previously performed at KAABOO Del Mar, including Jason Derulo, Counting Crows, Flo Rida, Los Lobos and Live, as well as the pioneering female hip-hop group Salt-N-Pepa, who on Saturday headline the 21-and-up San Diego Taco Fest at Waterfront Park.

Also set to perform at KAABOO Cayman are Blondie, Marren Morris and comedians Wanda Sykes and David Spade. The full lineup appears below.

Early Bird two-day discounted passes for the festival went on sale in February, before any performers were announced.

Advance two-day passes go on sale today (May 15) at 5:30 a.m. at kaaboocayman.com. Prices range from $300 for a two-day general-admission Thatch pass to $15,000 for an Ultimate Hang VIP pass.

There is one other option, at least for those for whom money is absolutely no object: a three-day Dream Pass, which costs $500,000 for four people. It includes a Grand Cayman villa staffed with a chef and butler, a private viewing area for KAABOO Cayman’s two stages, priority meet-and-greets with the festival’s performers, unlimited food and drink, use of a yacht and round-trip transportation.

KAABOO Cayman lineup

Music

The Chainsmokers

Duran Duran

Zedd

Jason Derulo

Bryan Adams

Counting Crows

Flo Rida

Blondie

Live

Maren Morris

Sean Paul

Shaggy

Salt-N-Pepa, featuring DJ Spinderella

Blues Traveler

Los Lobos

Magic!

The English Beat

Margo Price

Maxi Priest

Romain Virgo

Hirie

Transviolet

Stealing Oceans

Comedy

Wanda Sykes

David Spade

Jenny Slate

Darrell Hammond

Natasha Leggero

Tom Green

Alonzo Bodden

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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 double 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.”