HARD Summer Announces 2021 Lineup For San Bernardino

The beat goes on in 2021 as HARD Summer is the latest festival to announce its 2021 lineup, featuring Future, DJ Snake b2b with Malaa, 2 Chainz, REZZ, Dillon Francis, Kaytranada, RL Grime b2b with Baauer, Don Toliver and more.

The party will be held from July 31 to Aug. 1 at NOS Event Center in San Bernardino. Tickets go on sale April 2 at 10 a.m. PST. 

HARD Summer is yet another festival that was unable to stage in person in 2020 because of the COVID-19 pandemic, and organizers said in a statement they will be “working closely with local officials to implement necessary safety precautions and will follow state and local health guidelines in place at the time of the event.”

The festival will be one of the first major festivals in California to return in 2021, continuing the trend of hip-hop and electronic music festivals continuing to lead the way, as Pasquale Rotella recently said he is hoping EDC Las Vegas can stage in May and Rolling Loud is currently still scheduled to roll in May 2021. 

HARD Events now operates under Rotella’s Insomniac, after playing a key role in the growth of Southern California’s EDM scene in the early 200s. Pollstar spoke with HARD Events director Meagan DesChenes, who helped build the company from the ground up alongside founder Gary Richards, in 2019, when she said grumblings that EDM were dying didn’t bother her, as ticket sales were soaring year over year.