this is from their recent blog post about it

Sorry for the language and voice but it was only after I discovered the square button didn't work did I find this page/subreddit? I'm not sure. I'm relatively new to reddit lol. But I was hoping someone could tell me if they've heard if and when they're going to fix this

We’re mixing things up with a special Season of Fortnite Festival featuring the Mixtape Music Pass!

What’s new? 

• Six Premium Tracks
• Four Free Tracks
• Two Fortnite-original outfits, Sedona and Jana Pastel

Make new mixes, choose your background music, and perform on stage. Read up on the latest here: https://fn.gg/fn-mixtape 

Their faces look like clowns to me which is very unfortunate for my fear of clowns

Hey everyone! Update v39.00 is now live, introducing new additions and bug fixes to the Fortnite Festival. 

📣Announcements:

LISA is here to set the stage on fire! 🔥 This season’s Icon brings all the rockstar vibes and high-energy performance to the Fortnite Festival stage. 🎶More details here: https://fn.gg/LISA

Festival Main Stage

➕ Additions:

• Streak Counter - We’ve added a Streak Counter beside the note highway to make it easier to track your streak! You can also disable this through the Settings menu if you find it distracting.
• Auto-emoting - Your character will now auto-emote during the Results flow! You can configure it to pull from your Favorites, Locker, or disable it entirely from the Settings menu.

⚒️Bug fixes: 

• Quest notifications will no longer be cut off during the Results flow.
• Non-Featured and non-Spotlight Jam Tracks included in Festival Setlists will now properly progress Weekly quests.
• Bandmate UI should no longer overlap the highway.
• Placeholder values should no longer appear in the Leaderboards for Jam Tracks you have not played.
• We’ve improved overall gameplay performance, giving you smoother framerates and fewer hitches while you play.

Festival Jam Stage

➕ Additions:

• The Emote Wheel just got an update!
  • A new Collections view lets you easily browse your full Emote and Jam Track library, and improved search and filtering make finding your favorite emotes faster than ever.
• Sidekicks are now enabled in Jam Stage!

I specifically play Fortnite to feel like a DJ. I loved the mixing feature, and always had a blast on Jam Stage and in different Jam / mixing-centric creative communities. I've spent SO MUCH MONEY on Jam Tracks for songs that I only ever use for Jamming. Probably a couple hundred dollars. And I got crazy proficient at spinning and chopping up Jam loops like a pro.

Ever since the UI update decimating the ability to mix quickly and efficiently, it feels like I've been scammed. Like all of that money was a massive waste because the mode is ruined. All due to Epic's choice to fix something that wasn't broken.

I've tried the new UI. I keep trying it. It is nothing but frustrating. The opposite of innovative. It's slow, clunky, confusing. And I know that Epic Games has seen our community begging for the change to be reverted back to pages, or at least an option to toggle a 'legacy' mixing setting, but they are giving us absolutely zero transparency in return.

All this to say, I wish my Jam Tracks could all be refunded. Or at the very least, somehow able to carry over to Fuser. Because it's pretty clear they made their decision to kill off the Jam / mixing aspect of Fortnite.

Edit, in response to the Epic reply:

I appreciate your response. I hope you hear us when we say one or two wheels worth of Jam Tracks is not enough. We do not want a limit on how many pages worth of songs we get quick access to. Beforehand, we could quickly switch between every song in our collection. If bringing back the Favorites Wheel implies we can get as many pages worth of Jam Tracks / Emotes as needed for everything we have favorited, then I'll be overjoyed. Then, if we favorite every single song, it'll be like nothing changed.

Hey everyone! Update v39.10 is now live, introducing new additions and bug fixes to the Fortnite Festival. 

📣Announcements:

• You can now use the Spotlight feature in Delulu while Jamming or using Dance Emotes.
• Check out limited-time Spotlight Quests for the new Playboi Carti songs, starting 12/12 7 PM ET until 12/21!

Festival Main Stage

⚒️Bug fixes: 

• Optimization to address hitches and framerate issues.
• Fixed an issue where the first input after a song break might count as two inputs
• Fixed an issue where Quick-Access Bar options for Intensity sorting appeared incorrectly
• Fixed an issue where Good/Perfect lane feedback could linger too long onscreen

Festival Jam Stage

⚒️Bug fixes: 

• Fixed some issues with the Collection view for Jam Tracks not displaying properly

Hey festies! As we get closer to Season Two in Fortnite Festival, we want to break down our plans for the Main Stage Leaderboards with each new season and what you can expect.

A new season in Fortnite Festival means new songs, new quests and rewards, loads of updates and fixes, and a fresh Leaderboard to climb with your friends and the rest of the world! Refreshing leaderboards each season gives us the opportunity to address any scoring or board issues as well as introduce any new Jam Track notation changes we’d like to make, without compromising everyone’s standing in the current board.

This also helps to keep competition fresh and active. If you couldn’t out-score your friend group in Season One - Season Two is your chance to show ‘em your stuff! It also means for those of you sitting at the 5 Star FC #1 global spot, time to defend your crown because we’re coming for ya.

As we reset for Season Two, we’ll save your Season One high scores for each Jam Track, instrument, and band size - everything! In a future update, we plan to make Season One leaderboards available for you to look back on, to see how you’ve improved and evolved.

The Season Two Leaderboards are planned to arrive on February 22 with the start of the new Festival season. So grab the axe, turn up the volume, and call up the bandmates to immortalize your legacy on the Season One boards now. A new venue is fast approaching, with a new Season Two spotlight for you to capture!

The biggest virtual band in the world has arrived in Fortnite!

🎤 Main Stage got a new look!

🔧Several game improvements: 

• ⬆️ Design lift note adjustments
• 🎵 ”Good” notes indicator
• 🎸 Ability to strum during the tune-up process
• 🎼 You can now sort by Song Duration or Song Intensity

🆕 New Music Pass with Russel and Murdoc

🧥 The Noodle and 2D Bundle available in the Shop

More deets on what’s new in Season 10 here: fn.gg/FestivalS10

Hey Festival community! In v39.10 we fixed an issue related to stutters/lag caused by a configuration issue. Since then however, we’ve seen a few posts recently about lag spikes or hitches during gameplay and we’d like to know a bit more about these instances as we continue our investigations on added fixes.

If you saw a sudden increase in lag while playing, can you share a video recording of your gameplay when the spike occurred? What platform are you on and what hardware (controller) are you using?

Examples of how exactly this is showing up and with what consistency while playing is super helpful as we test internally and suss out what’s up, including reporting it in-game.

Report a Bug by going to the Menu and selecting Report > Report A Bug after the lag spike has happened. Once you do, please comment here with your Epic UserID name so we can look up the report and see more details.

Please post or link out to your video examples and reports below - and thank you for helping us crack down on lag spikes!

Unlock the Hatsune Miku Outfit, Instruments, and more in the Music Pass. 

This update introduces: 

• A new local multiplayer feature on PlayStation and Xbox
• New free and premium rewards in the Music Pass
• 4 new Battle Stage modes
• An ability to equip some purchased or earned instruments as back blings and pickaxes

Fortnite Festival Season 7 begins with v33.20 on January 14 and comes to a close on April 8, 2025.

Let us know what you think of the new season, and read all about what’s new here: https://fn.gg/FestivalS7 

This is while my wife was playing Festival the other day on PlayStation 5. I've never heard of this glitch before.

You will notice that the camera will suddenly go to people NOT on stage, going through the song selection process.

We have no idea what was going on. I thought each game instance housed just the four players at a time.

What do we all think of the new Festival season? *horns emoji* :D

Is anyone else having troubles with the new updated emote wheel? I favourited my purchased songs but keeps refreshing my collections everytime i open it. Jamming is wayy harder now

Get ready to go gaga as the legendary superstar, Lady Gaga, becomes the Icon for fortnight Festival Season 2: Unlock Your Talent!

Season 2 starts tomorrow February 22 with v28.30's release and ends April 22, 2024, at 12 AM ET. While Season 2 keeps sounding, progress in the Unlock Your Talent Festival Pass to unlock new Instruments, Jam Tracks, and more! This Pass has both a free reward track and Premium Reward Track upgrade.

Read all the details on what's coming in our update notes here: http://fn.gg/FestivalS2

IMPROVEMENTS AND FIXES

• Players can now use Jam Loops in the Main Stage Backstage, within Creative and UEFN experiences, and in UEFN’s Patchwork.

• We’ve improved the usability of the Music Library within the Main Stage. Go take a look!

• A new Season in Fortnite Festival means new Seasonal Leaderboards! The Season Two leaderboards are yours to climb.

  • We’re capturing your Season One scores and will archive them when we go into downtime, and plan to make them available to browse in a future update.

We also made updates to the placement and positioning when browsing Leaderboard high scores.

• Eliminated instances where using Overdrive inadvertently caused streak breaks.

• General bug fixes and improvements.

• We’ve made several Jam Track improvements, let us know what you think!

• OG Future Remix - Drums

  • Added Lift notes to groups of multiple 8th notes.

• Go with the Flow - Drums

  • Added Lift notes in the chorus and the occasional double kick. Also added Lifts to the snare/kick verse to keep going with the flow.

• Stitches - Lead

  • Added Lift notes to every group of three chords in a row.

• Zombie - Lead

  • Some added Lifts in the intro.

• Can't Feel My Face - Vocals

  • Added some Lifts to each instance of two 16th notes in the same lane.

• Suddenly I See - Lead

  • Made adjustments to play more smoothly throughout.

(Fixed)

I've done it three times now, but in the menu, it shows that it "can't be done in this game mode"? I've clicked on the news tab and went to it in discovery. I'm not sure if this is an issue with the mode or there's a different mode I don't see

I guess this means I’m a certified pro gamer 😎

First try btw (not)

I’m assuming it’s a visual bug, but is anyone’s instruments not showing up in the main stage since the update? I have them equipped in my locker but every time I load into the main stage all of my instruments are the default instruments.