![]() “Last year was the first in 17 years that I'd never done a three-day, outdoor music festival in the summer,” says Kruger, 39, the sole constant in Destiny's long, proud history as one of North America's first rave promoters. ![]() The first WEMF in 1995 got hit by a tornado if the festival didn't die right then and there, it was never going to die. One doesn't suffer the hassles, headaches and heart attacks of running a party of this ambitious scale every summer for 15 years unless one feels some sort of calling. So when Destiny Productions principles Ryan Kruger and Jesse Brown announced the demise of their long-running three-day rave, the World Electronic Music Festival in 2008 (and then quietly retired its short-lived sister event, the Cutting Edge Music Festival in 2009) you suspected they wouldn't go more than a summer or two without throwing some sort of outdoor event. ![]() You shouldn't trust a promoter who says he's getting out of the business any more than you should trust a band that says it's breaking up for good. ![]()
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