Paradiso Festival, one of the most popular annual EDM events in Washington state, may be in trouble after one of its owning companies is suing the other.<\/p>\n
Insomniac Events, a California-based event production company that co-promotes the festival, filed a lawsuit Jan. 28 against Seattle-based USC Events. Insomniac Events alleges in the lawsuit that USC mismanaged $1.2 million. The company says it gave USC $2 million in advance to pay for artist and vendor fees, which vendors and artists claim they didn’t receive.<\/p>\n
Attorneys from Insomniac Events did not respond to request for comment, and USC had similarly not responded at the time of publication.<\/p>\n
The lawsuit asks the judge to dissolve a co-promotion agreement between the two companies that had allowed them to put on the festival since 2013. Further, the lawsuit asked for a permanent injunction against USC, barring the company from promoting and booking future Paradiso Festivals. The two-day event usually occurs in mid-June and attracts about 25,000 people each day.<\/p>\n
Lastly, the lawsuit asked for financial compensation, with the amount to be decided at trial.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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