|
Season/ Year |
Dates of Event |
Location |
Ticket Price |
Participants |
Registered Theme Camps |
Description of Effigy |
Historical Notes |
I |
Spring 2000 |
5/11 to 5/13/2000 |
Assateague Island |
No tickets |
70+ |
n/a |
Burning Man effigy, arms raised, fire shooting from each hand. Artist: Kevin. Also 5 popsicle stick men. Artist: Andy Wing. |
Regarded as the first "Playa Del Fuego" by event historian Andy Wing because this was the first time that the Assateague Beach Burn was extended to a 3-day event. |
II |
Summer 2000 |
8/4 to 8/6/2000 |
Assateague Island |
No tickets |
n/a |
n/a |
Unknown |
|
III |
Fall 2000 |
10/13 to 10/15/2000 |
Assateague Island |
No tickets |
n/a |
n/a |
Burning Man effigy. |
|
IV |
Spring 2001 |
4/27 to 4/29/2001 |
Assateague Island |
No tickets |
150+ |
n/a |
"Leaning Man" effigy, 20 ft tall. Artist: Fred. Also 5 popsicle stick men, each 6 ft tall. Artist: Andy Wing. |
Last Playa Del Fuego held on the beach at Assateague Island. |
V |
Fall 2001 |
10/19 to 10/21/2001 |
Odessa, DE |
Unknown |
230+ |
n/a |
First time that a "Burning Pony" was placed atop the ceremonial bonfire in honor of the event's historical roots on Assateague Island. |
First time Playa Del Fuego held in Odessa, DE. First time tickets are sold and event is insured. |
VI |
Spring 2002 |
5/24 to 5/27/2002 |
Odessa, DE |
Unknown |
382 |
n/a |
n/a |
|
VII |
Fall 2002 |
10/11 to 10/14/2002 |
Odessa, DE |
Unknown |
n/a |
n/a |
n/a |
|
VIII |
Spring 2003 |
5/23 to 5/26/03 |
Odessa, DE |
Unknown |
n/a |
n/a |
n/a |
This was the legendary "Mud Burn." |
IX |
Fall 2003 |
10/10 to 10/13/03 |
Odessa, DE |
Unknown |
n/a |
n/a |
n/a |
|
X |
Spring 2004 |
5/28 to 5/31/2004 |
Odessa, DE |
Unknown |
n/a (sold out) |
n/a |
n/a |
First time tickets were sold out. |
XI |
Fall 2004 |
10/8 to 10/11/2004 |
Odessa, DE |
Unknown |
n/a |
n/a |
n/a |
|
XII |
Spring 2005 |
5/27 to 5/30/2005 |
Odessa, DE |
Unknown |
625 (sold out) |
n/a |
n/a |
|
XIII |
Fall 2005 |
10/7 to 10/10/2005 |
Odessa, DE |
Unknown |
n/a |
n/a |
n/a |
|
XIV |
Spring 2006 |
5/25 to 5/29/2006 |
Odessa, DE |
Unknown |
800+ |
n/a |
n/a |
First time event was extended from 4 to 5 days (beginning on Thursday).
pyramid of exotic hardwood (aka pyramid of porn) burned on Friday |
XV |
Fall 2006 |
10/5 to 10/9/2006 |
Odessa, DE |
$35 |
~800 |
n/a |
Sculpture of horse bucking back, lit with giant zippo light and fuse. major pyrotechnics. mounted on shipping container with the 3 wise monkeys made of steel, revealed as it burnt down. artist monk e burnswell; medium: natural wood and plywood. |
Rain and mud Friday and Saturday, beautiful sunshine Sunday. |
XVI |
Spring 2007 |
5/24 to 5/28/2007 |
Odessa, DE |
$35 |
800 (sold out) |
n/a |
Pegasus taking flight; medium: natural wood and wicker. |
Burn took place during a fantastic night time electrical storm which surrounded the playa with lightning strikes. fall of the house of burner burned on Saturday night with a fire so bright you could "see it from space" |
XVII |
Fall 2007 |
10/4 to 10/8/2007 |
Odessa, DE |
$35 |
800 (sold out) |
n/a |
7 pony head totem minor pyrotechnics also lit with single match; medium: natural wood, plywood and paper mache'. artist monk e burnswell |
|
XVIII |
Spring 2008 |
5/22 to 5/26/2008 |
Odessa, DE |
$35 |
1000 (sold out) |
n/a |
Silhouette cut-out of a horse head; medium: plywood. |
Ticket cap increased by 25%, and still sold out. First Totem Burn on Sunday night. |
XIX |
Fall 2008 |
10/9 to 10/13/2008 |
Odessa, DE |
$35 |
1000 (sold out) |
n/a |
Seahorse; medium: natural wood and driftwood; minor pyrotechnics. |
|
XX |
Spring 2009 |
5/21 to 5/25/2009 |
Odessa, DE |
$35 |
1000 (sold out) |
n/a |
Silhouette cut-out of a horse rearing up; medium: painted plywood and wood scales. |
Second Totem Burn on Sunday night. |
XXI |
Fall 2009 |
10/8 to 10/12/2009 |
Odessa, DE |
$35 |
1000 (sold out) |
n/a |
Huge rocking horse (multicolored); fully interactive prior to burn; medium: painted wood; pyrotechnics. Artists: Amira and The Wineman. |
|
XXII |
Spring 2010 |
5/27 to 5/31/2010 |
Odessa, DE |
$50 |
1275 (sold out) |
n/a |
Exterior: My Little Pony (pink); Interior: Skeletal demon dark horse (black); medium: painted wood effigy and pedestal; ignited by flaming arrows; pyrotechnics. Artist: The Connecticut Oakburners |
Ticket cap increased by 27.5%, and still sold out. Ticket price increased nearly 43% to help create a fund for future purchase of land. New ticket purchasing system used. First year that the back gate was staffed for entire event. |
XXIII |
Fall 2010 |
10/7 to 10/11/2010 |
Odessa, DE |
$50 |
1275 (sold out) |
n/a |
Large Pegasus with Movable wings created by Barrel of Fun |
TBD |
XXIV |
Spring 2011 |
5/26 to 5/30/2011 |
Odessa, DE |
$50 |
1275 (sold out) |
40 |
Two story "pony tower" with a pony on both the first and second stories; artist Gordon B. McCracken medium: thick beam construction for tower, plywood ponies. |
Tallest effigy in PDF history. |
XXV |
Fall 2011 |
10/6 to 10/10/2011 |
Odessa, DE |
$50 |
1275 (sold out) |
42 |
Rocking Pony by Fogie Camp. |
Muddiest site conditions since Spring 2003. For the first time, a temple was built for the festival and burned on Sunday evening. |
XXVI |
Spring 2012 |
5/24 to 5/28/2012 |
Odessa, DE |
$50 |
1275 (sold out) |
21+ |
Kissing ponies; two wicker ponies, rearing up on hind legs and nuzzling noses. |
New sound policy enforced. Beautiful secondary burn on Sunday night. |
XXVII |
Fall 2012 |
10/4 to 10/8/2012 |
Odessa, DE |
$50 |
1275 (sold out) |
40 |
"Single Carousel Horse on a Pole" by Reginald Conyard Jr. Painted carousel horse with zebra stripes; layered plywood with a weighted rope an pulley system; pony shifted into 3 different poses as specific ropes burned. |
Fairly muddy conditions. |
XXVIII |
Spring 2013 |
5/23 to 5/27/2012 |
Odessa, DE |
$50 |
1275 (sold out) |
40 |
Built by Camp Buffalo, an interactive pony with a slide that allowed participants to be "reborn a buffalo." |
Rainy, windy, and muddy. |
XXIX |
Fall 2013 |
10/10 to 10/14/2013 |
Odessa, DE |
$50 |
1275 (sold out) |
57 |
Multiple tiers with a central platform with a pony statue. |
Rainy, muddy, and windy. That burn we had a "lake". |
XXX |
Spring 2014 |
5/22 to 5/26/2014 |
Odessa, DE |
$50 |
~1375 (sold out) |
?? |
Pallet pile with wire-wrap pony sculpture hidden inside. |
Muddy Thursday. Sunny, warm and dry for the rest. |
XXXI |
Fall 2014 |
10/10 to 10/13/2014 |
Odessa, DE |
$50 |
~1400 (sold out) |
?? |
Wooden Pegasus with flapping connected to a pulley system. |
|
XXXII |
Spring 2015 |
5/21 to 5/25/2015 |
Odessa, DE |
$50 |
?? |
?? |
|
|
XXXIII |
Fall 2015 |
10/8 to 10/12/2015 |
Odessa, DE |
$50 |
?? |
?? |
|
|
XXXIV |
Spring 2016 |
5/26 to 5/30/2016 |
Odessa, DE |
$50 |
?? |
?? |
|
|
XXXV |
Fall 2016 |
10/6 to 10/10/2016 |
Odessa, DE |
$50 |
?? |
?? |
"Everything is Awesome" Pony - Participants were invited to play with collection of oversized modular blocks which were later assembled into a large, colorful pony effigy. |
Muddy exodus. Cars stuck in field. |
XXXV |
Spring 2017 |
5/25 to 5/29/2017 |
Odessa, DE |
$50 |
?? |
?? |
"Sleipnir" - a rearing 8-legged horse effigy built with a heavy timber skeleton then clad with wood. |
Muddiest event to occur on the land in Odessa, DE. Eventually became the last event to occur on that particular site. |
XXXVI |
Fall 2017 |
09/28 to 10/01 |
Elkins, West Virginia |
$50 |
?? |
35 |
|
Fall event renamed "Constellation" |
XXXVII |
2018 |
05/24 to 05/28 |
Tamaqua, PA, PA |
$50 |
?? |
26 |
"Free Biscuit" - a geometric pony effigy with a central structure of lumber intersected by triangular planes of plywood. Fireworks. |
Hot and dry weather |
XXXVIII |
2019 |
05/23 to 05/27 |
Tamaqua, PA, PA |
500 Tier 1 tickets at $65 each / 250 Tier 2 at $80 |
759 attendees of 811 tickets sold |
26 |
An elevated platform with a pony cutout topped with a circular table supporting a rearing pony effigy. Fireworks. |
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2020 |
Cancelled |
N/A |
N/A |
N/A |
N/A |
N/A |
Due to COVID-19 Pandemic event was cancelled. |
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2021 |
Cancelled |
N/A |
N/A |
N/A |
N/A |
N/A |
Due to COVID-19 Pandemic event was cancelled. |