Cloud 9 Adventures is a provider of reservations, travel services, marketing, consulting, and brand management for destination music events.
The company specializes in planning, promoting, and executing multi-day music events on fully chartered luxury cruise ships and at all-inclusive resorts.
Current and past destination music events have been located in at all-inclusive resorts in Mexico, Jamaica, and the Dominican Republic.
In collaboration with The Disco Biscuits, Umphrey's McGee, and Sound Tribe Sector 9, 2017 marked the 11th version of this event.
Dominican Holidaze has featured premiere Jam Bands and Jamtronica acts such as Lotus, Big Gigantic, The New Deal, Papadosio, The Polish Ambassador, Cherub, Lettuce, and Joe Russo's Almost Dead.
Additional participating artists include the Dirty Dozen Brass Band, Bloodkin, The New Mastersounds, Orgone, Big Something, along with the Playa Allstars, and The Cleaners, both of which are special groups created for the event featuring artists such as Col Bruce Hampton, George Porter Jr. Ivan Neville, Nikki Glaspie, Randall Bramblet, and Grant Green Jr. One Big Holiday
Past performers include Band of Horses, Brandi Carlile, Jason Isbell, Lake Street Dive, The Devil Makes Three, Old Crow Medicine Show, John Prine, The Head and The Heart, Langhorne Slim & The Law, Jim Avett, and more.
Past performers include Citizen Cope, Dirty Heads, G. Love & Special Sauce, Steel Pulse, Don Carlos, SOJA, Iration, Pepper, Ozomatli, Matisyahu, Tribal Seeds, Stick Figure, J Boog, Fortunate Youth, and Chali 2na.
Castaway with Southern Ground has welcomed performers such as Kacey Musgraves, Michael Franti & Spearhead, Trombone Shorty & the Orleans Ave, Dawes, Brett Dennen, JJ Grey & Mofro, Rodrigo y Gabriela, Toots & the Maytals, Maren Morris, Margo Price, Drake White, Jake Owen, Blackberry Smoke, The Original Wailers, CAM, The Record Company, LANCO, and many more.