
Portola Music Festival is a 2-day music festival featuring a lineup of prominent names in the electronic dance music and house genres, produced by Goldenvoice. The festival takes place at Pier 80 in San Francisco, offering a unique urban and industrial backdrop with stages both indoors and outdoors. It is known for its focus on music and attracts a crowd that is enthusiastic about dancing and enjoying the performances. The festival has faced noise complaints in the past due to its location on the waterfront. In addition to music, the festival includes immersive experiences like Despacio, a high-fidelity sound system and dance floor.
Portola is committed to sustainability with initiatives including a $2 sustainability fee included in every pass to support goals and initiatives. Efforts include providing water refilling stations, using recycled content or reusable drinkware instead of single-use plastic bottles, employing solar battery generators and electric utility carts, tracking carbon emissions, discouraging vehicle idling, using energy-efficient lighting, promoting public transportation and biking, reusing signage and decor, providing reusable cups, composting, recycling, and donating leftover food and materials.
77 artists
The Prodigy
EDM, Techno
The Chemical Brothers (dj set)
EDM, Rock
Duke Dumont
EDM, House
LCD Soundsystem
EDM, Alternative