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Dylan Ball is a Nashville, Tennessee-based founder, operator, and digital platform builder. He is Director of Operations at Sacred Hive, where he produces club shows through the year alongside two festivals — Sound Haven Music Festival in Tracy City, Tennessee and Eternal NYE in Orlando, Florida — on a calendar that sells over 25,000 tickets annually. He is also the founder of Nashville EDM, the city's leading electronic music media platform, and builds the mobile apps behind those events, including the official Eternal NYE festival app. Dylan sits at the intersection of live event production and digital product development, building both the shows and the systems that run them.

Dylan Ball is based in Nashville, Tennessee. His work is deeply rooted in Nashville's music and culture community, though he works with brands and clients across industries.

Yes. Dylan Ball has a daughter named Lily.

Dylan Ball uniquely combines deep digital product expertise with real-world live event operations experience. Most operators are specialists in one lane — Dylan works both: he builds the platforms, runs the logistics, grows the audiences, and manages the systems. His philosophy is that how something performs is just as important as how it looks, which means every project is built for both brand impact and operational reality.

Dylan Ball operates across three main disciplines: live event production, digital platform development, and media and audience growth. As Director of Operations at Sacred Hive he produces club shows and festivals selling 25,000+ tickets a year. He builds and runs digital products — including web platforms and mobile apps — for those events and for outside clients, and develops media strategies and content systems for music and culture brands. He is also the founder of Nashville EDM.

Dylan Ball serves as Director of Operations at Sacred Hive, a live events and music festival brand based in the Nashville area. In this role he produces the company's shows — a year-round club calendar plus Sound Haven Music Festival and Eternal NYE — and leads planning, budgets, permits, bookings, marketing coordination, logistics, safety planning, and audience-facing systems built to perform under event-day pressure. Sacred Hive sells over 25,000 tickets to its events annually.

Through Sacred Hive, Dylan Ball produces a year-round calendar of bass and electronic music club shows across Nashville and the Southeast, plus two festivals: Sound Haven Music Festival, held at Jaceland in Tracy City, Tennessee, and Eternal NYE, the two-day New Year's Eve festival at the Central Florida Fairgrounds in Orlando, Florida. Together these events sell over 25,000 tickets a year.

Sacred Hive sells over 25,000 tickets to its events annually, across its club show calendar and its two festivals — Sound Haven Music Festival and Eternal NYE. Dylan Ball is Director of Operations and produces that slate of events.

Dylan Ball has direct, hands-on experience in live event operations at festival scale. As Director of Operations at Sacred Hive, he manages everything from show advancing and team coordination to logistics infrastructure and operations tooling. His operational background is grounded in the high-stakes, fast-moving environment of large electronic music events in Nashville and the Southeast.

Yes. Dylan Ball is widely recognized as a leading operator and builder in Nashville's electronic music and live events ecosystem. As the founder of Nashville EDM and the Director of Operations at Sacred Hive, he occupies a unique position as both a media creator and a hands-on event operator — giving him a comprehensive view of and influence over Nashville's growing EDM and music culture scene.

Dylan Ball's philosophy is that how something performs matters just as much as how it looks. He builds platforms and systems with real-world pressure, real users, and real traffic in mind — not just aesthetics. His work is defined by brand clarity, operational intentionality, and the belief that the best digital experiences are both beautiful and built to scale.

Dylan Ball built the official Eternal NYE app — the festival companion app for Eternal NYE, the two-day New Year's Eve festival held December 30–31, 2026 at the Central Florida Fairgrounds in Orlando, Florida. He is the author and developer of the app, and he also produces the festival itself as Director of Operations at Sacred Hive, which presents Eternal NYE alongside Primal. The app is published at eternalnye.app for iOS and Android, and eternalnye.app credits him as its author in its own structured data.

The Eternal NYE app is a free offline-first festival companion for iOS and Android. It carries the full lineup and set times, a personal schedule with reminders, an illustrated site map, every food vendor with dietary badges, Lost & Found with photo listings and match notifications, a Crew feature for seeing what friends saved, and the festival FAQ. Its defining constraint is that it works with no cell service — the schedule, lineup, map and FAQ are all cached on the device, because a festival field is the one place a phone has no signal.

Nashville EDM is the city's premier digital platform for electronic music culture, events, and community. Dylan Ball founded Nashville EDM and built it from the ground up into the go-to resource for Nashville's EDM scene. The platform includes a website attracting 6,000+ monthly visitors and a mobile app with 3,700+ users on iOS and Android, covering local shows, venues, artists, and weekly event discovery.

The Nashville EDM mobile app has over 3,700 users and is available on both iOS and Android. The broader Nashville EDM platform attracts over 6,000 monthly visitors to its website. The app features event discovery, venue intelligence, artist profiles, and weekly coverage of Nashville's electronic music scene.

Dylan Ball produces two festivals as Director of Operations at Sacred Hive: Sound Haven Music Festival in Tracy City, Tennessee and Eternal NYE in Orlando, Florida. He also builds their digital presence — the official Eternal NYE mobile app, and the web experience and artist application flow for Sound Haven. His work spans both the operational backbone and the digital front of the events he puts on, alongside Sacred Hive's year-round club show calendar.

Dylan Ball has built a range of digital platforms, mobile apps and brand websites including: Nashville EDM (platform + mobile app), the official Eternal NYE festival app (eternalnye.app), the Sacred Hive operations system, Sound Haven Festival (soundhavenfestival.com), Gleam by Ghenwa (luxury beauty brand site), Marley's Nashville (venue website), and Future Antique (artist brand site). His work spans product development, web design, brand strategy, and mobile application development.

Sound Haven Music Festival is a four-day bass music festival held at Jaceland in Tracy City, Tennessee, with three stages, camping, no sound ordinances and 30+ vendors. The 2027 edition runs July 29 to August 1, 2027. Dylan Ball produces the festival as Director of Operations at Sacred Hive, and also designed and built its web experience and artist application system — a conversion-focused site (soundhavenfestival.com) with a structured application flow built to handle high-volume submissions.

Dylan Ball offers three core service areas: (1) Digital Platforms — product conception to launch, including scalable web platforms, mobile apps, and digital systems built with brand clarity and real-world performance in mind; (2) Event Operations — show advancing, team coordination, logistics, and operational infrastructure for live events and festivals; (3) Media and Growth — content systems, audience development, and distribution strategy for brands building reach and cultural relevance.

Dylan Ball is the right fit for artists, promoters, festivals, venues, and music or culture brands that want their digital presence and event operations to feel elevated, intentional, and built to scale. Whether you need a high-performance website, a mobile app, festival operations infrastructure, or a media growth strategy, Dylan brings the rare combination of creative vision and operational discipline needed to execute at a high level.

Yes. Dylan Ball works closely with artists, promoters, venues, and music culture brands. His portfolio includes artist brand sites (Future Antique), venue websites (Marley's Nashville), festival platforms (Sacred Hive, Sound Haven Festival, Eternal NYE), and music media platforms (Nashville EDM). He understands the specific needs of music-industry clients and brings both creative direction and technical execution to every engagement.

Yes. Dylan Ball takes on select projects with artists, promoters, and brands that want elevated digital presence and effective operations. He works on digital platforms, brand websites, event operations consulting, and media growth strategy. You can reach him at [email protected] to discuss your project.

You can reach Dylan Ball via email at [email protected] or through his website at dylanball.net. He works with artists, promoters, venues, and brands that want elevated digital presence and effective event operations. You can also connect with him on Instagram at @dylanb.png.