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Huka Entertainment is a music festival producer and promoter based in New Orleans, LA. Starting with Hangout Music Festival, the company’s festivals now include Tortuga Music Festival, Pemberton Music Festival, BUKU Music + Art Project, and Hell Yes Fest. Huka Entertainment also has a growing concerts department spanning the southern and eastern coast of the United States.

History
Huka Entertainment was founded in 2005 by co-founders A.J. Niland and Bennett Drago after they promoted local shows around the Mobile area in Alabama. The company grew into the national spotlight in 2010 with the first annual Hangout Music Festival, followed by a free Concerts for the Coast concert series featuring Jimmy Buffett, Bon Jovi and others in response to the BP Oil Spill disaster. Following the success of Hangout Music Festival, Huka Entertainment launched Tortuga Music Festival with co-founder’s Rock The Ocean Foundation, and also began co-producing the BUKU Music + Art Project alongside Winter Circle Productions. In 2014, the company announced they would bring the multi-genre Pemberton Music Festival to Pemberton in British Columbia, just north of Canadian resort-town, Whistler. In 2015, former Clear Channel executive Evan Harrison joined Huka Entertainment as CEO.

Hangout Music Festival
The Hangout Music Festival is an annual three-day music festival held at the public beaches of Gulf Shores, Alabama. It was co-founded by Huka Entertainment in 2010 and was produced by Huka Entertainment through 2013. The event features many genres of music, including rock, indie, hip hop, and electronic dance music. The festival generally takes place on the third weekend in May. It is the first major music festival held on the beach in the city.

Tortuga Music Festival
Rock the Ocean’s Tortuga Music Festival is an annual music festival that takes place at Fort Lauderdale Beach Park in Fort Lauderdale, Florida. Founded by Huka Entertainment and the Rock The Ocean Foundation, the annual spring festival aims to raise awareness and support for ocean conservation. In total, over $250,000 was raised for ocean conservation efforts.

The festival features multiple stages of live entertainment with a focus on country, rock and a variety of roots music. Past performers have included Zac Brown Band, Luke Bryan, Eric Church, Kenny Chesney, Lynyrd Skynyrd and more. The 2016 edition of the festival expanded to 3 days, announcing Blake Shelton, Tim McGraw, and Dierks Bentley as headliners each day.

Pemberton Music Festival
Pemberton Music Festival is an annual four day music festival that takes place near Mount Currie in Pemberton, British Columbia. Produced by Huka Entertainment, the 2015 event took place on July 16–19. The festival features multiple stages of live entertainment, including rock, indie rock, hip hop, electronic, heavy metal, and comedy.

The 2015 lineup included The Black Keys, Kendrick Lamar, J. Cole, Tiesto, Hozier, Kid Cudi, Missy Elliot and others.

BUKU Music + Art Project
BUKU Music + Art Project is a New Orleans based two-day music and arts festival produced by Huka Entertainment and Winter Circle Productions and held annually at Mardi Gras World. BUKU considers itself to be a boutique event that delivers a big festival punch without compromising its house-party vibe. BUKU seeks to serve as a platform for the intersection of pop culture and the New Orleans underground arts community, and combines international musicians with local food vendors, local visual artists, and various surprise pop-up street performers throughout the site. BUKU's musical tastes have been a relatively even mix of electronic dance music, hip hop music, and indie rock featuring past performances by Skrillex, Ellie Goulding, Kid Cudi, Bassnectar, The Flaming Lips, Calvin Harris, Kendrick Lamar, A$AP Rocky, Passion Pit, Nas, Explosions in the Sky, Major Lazer, Alt-J, TV on the Radio, Chromeo, Flux Pavilion, Flosstradamus, Sleigh Bells, Earl Sweatshirt, Porter Robinson, Die Antwoord, RL Grime, Seth Troxler, Purity Ring, Jamie Jones and dozens of others.

Huka Concerts
Huka Entertainment has promoted and produced concerts of various sizes throughout the span of the company. Huka Entertainment venues include the Saenger Theatre (Mobile, AL), Brooklyn Arts Center (Wilmington, NC), Warehouse Live (Houston, TX), Joy Theatre (New Orleans, LA), Greenfield Lake Amphitheatre (Wilmington, NC), Publiq House (New Orleans, LA), and more.