BMan Tickets Revamp

It’s sort of a “good news, bad news” scenario to some hoping to buy a ticket to the Burning Man art and music festival Aug. 26 to Sept. 2 in Nevada’s Black Rock Desert.

The good news is that festival organizers Black Rock City LLC scrapped the disastrous lottery system used last year in favor of a return to a first-come, first-served system.

The bad news is that the event’s multi-tier ticket pricing has been scrapped in favor of a flat fee of $380 per ticket. Last year’s ticket prices ranged from $240 to about $400.

Of  58,000 tickets available for this year, 3,000 were sold during an early-bird holiday promotion in December at $650 each.

On Jan. 30, 10,000 tickets will be made available under the Directed Group category – meaning core Burners who physically create the infrastructure of Black Rock City.

Individual sales of 40,000 tickets begin Feb. 13 and another 1,000 “last-chance” tickets will be available in August.

Tickets in Burning Man’s low-income program, for which 4,000 tickets are set aside, are $190 each – up from $160 last year – for those who qualify.