NEW ORLEANS- The Buku Music + Art Project returns to New Orleans in the spring.
    
Organizers said Wednesday the fifth annual hip-hop and electronic dance music festival is scheduled March 11-12, 2016, at Mardi Gras World, the warehouse where the city's Carnival floats are made.
  

Discounted early-bird tickets go on sale at 11 a.m. Thursday. Two-day general-admission early-bird passes are $149.50; VIP two-day passes are $299.50, and super-VIP Too Buku passes are $599.50. VIP amenities include access to premium viewing areas and to a riverboat that docks alongside the outdoor main stage and offers open bar, private bathrooms and an intimate stage for exclusive performances.
    
Buku was founded in 2012 by Winter Circle Productions, a promotion company that then-Tulane students Reeves Price and Dante DiPasquale started in 2009.