The following is an incomplete list of dance music festivals that showcase trance music.
Asia Notes: Sunburn was not the first festival/event to specialize in India in trance music. Much earlier pioneers of Goa parties • China: Spirit Tribe is a regular event outside of
Kunming, Yunnan province. • India: The
Sunburn Festival was launched in December 2007 as South Asia's first electronic music festival, and featured heavyweights like DJ
Carl Cox and John '00' Fleming. Located by the seaside in Goa, on India's west coast, the festival has its roots in
Goa trance, centered around
Anjuna beach. Sunburn had more than 5,000 party-goers attend a three-day event in December 2008. At the 2009 festival, DJs such as
Armin Van Buuren and
Sander van Doorn headlined when audience numbers were approx 15,000. At the 2010 festival, when the likes of
Paul Van Dyk and many other DJ's played the estimated attendance rose to about 30,000 people. The 2015 the festival achieved a record-breaking attendance with over 350,000 people attending the event to experience world-class DJ's with the likes of
Martin Garrix and
Afrojack. • Thailand:
Full Moon Party, since 1985. Held each month on the island of
Ko Pha-ngan. Thousands of people from across the world gather on Haad Rin Nok (Sunrise Beach) to dance to trance during full moons.
Transmission, originally from Prague, also holds events in Bangkok. • Japan: Rebirth Festival • Israel: Most Israeli festivals play Goa Trance and Psychedelic Trance when the most notable ones are
Doof Festival, Unity, ZNA Gathering Israel, Total Eclipse • Vietnam: Ravolution Music Festival
Europe • Germany: Waldfrieden Wonderland,
Stemwede, since 1997. The forest peace wonderland is an international open-air music festival, which takes place every year in August. The main style of music is psychedelic trance. We Are One, Berlin, since 2010. Headed by
Paul van Dyk, the event plays several different styles of trance. •
Lithuania:
Yaga Gathering. A transformational festival hosted in a clearing in Ežeraitis Forest, at the edge of Spengla Lake in the Varėna District of southern Lithuania. The festival has no corporate sponsors and is financed by ticket sales. The site of the festival is about 60 kilometers (37 mi) south of Vilnius, the capital of Lithuania. Classes and activities are among the festival's other attractions, including open-air cinema, the Discovery stage featuring lectures, a Healing area with yoga and meditation sessions, a handicraft workshops area, and a children's area. •
Hungary:
Ozora Festival •
Poland: Euforia Festival, Electronic Family Poland, Mayday, Sunrise Festival •
Portugal:
Boom festival (the last edition was in Idanha-a-Nova), since 1997. This event is an outdoor festival running every two years with a duration of several days, focusing in psychedelic Goa trance. The festival also features workshops, presentations, and cinema. Freedom Festival;
Kin and 4 Elements Festival, and many others. •
Romania:
Untold Festival,
Dakini Festival, SAGA Festival •
Switzerland:
Street Parade,
Zürich, since 1992. The world's biggest electronic music festival (more than one million visitors attend this event yearly). • Sweden: Monday Bar Cruise has been arranged four times a year since 2002 and takes place on a 2000 people cruise ship between Stockholm and the Baltic countries. Styles include trance, psytrance, hardstyle, and hardcore. •
Belgium:
Tomorrowland,
Boom, since 2005. The largest Belgian open-air electronic music festival. DJs such as
Armin van Buuren,
Tiësto,
Arty,
Cosmic Gate and many more have been fixtures at the festival. •
Czech Republic:
Transmission, Prague, since 2006. The biggest indoor trance music event in middle and eastern Europe.
Markus Schulz is a frequent headlining performer at the event. •
Finland: Summer Sound,
Helsinki, since 2011. Starting as a one-day festival in 2011 and held in Suvilahti, Helsinki, it has since grown into 3-day festival partly inside and partly outside. Every summer, DJs such as
Tiësto,
Armin van Buuren, and
Faithless headline the event. •
Greece: Dreamland,
Ancient Olympia,
Elis, since 2014. An event which aims to promote different types of electronic music, culture as well as the ecological awareness. Since 2018, it takes place in the
coast of Kyparissia, under the name "Mythody". •
Turkey: ANKA or Psy-ANKA and AJAX, since 2009 and 2011. Festivals which represent different genres of electronic music are hold in Turkey annually. • Spain:
Ibiza has hosted trance parties since the 1990s. • United Kingdom:
Spiral Tribe,
Tribal Gathering,
Glade Festival etc;
Gatecrasher also promote sporadic events and have in the past also used venues such as
Birmingham N.E.C.
Netherlands Electronic Music festivals in the Netherlands are mainly organized by four companies
ALDA Events,
ID&T, UDC and
Q-dance: •
Armin Only,
Jaarbeurs,
Utrecht: As the name states, the only DJ to mix at this event is
Armin van Buuren. Organized by ALDA Events. Armin Only 2005 was held in
Rotterdam Ahoy. The 2008 and 2010 editions were held in Jaarbeurs Utrecht. The 2013 event was held at the
Ziggo Dome, Amsterdam •
Dance Valley,
Spaarnwoude: an outdoor festival organized by UDC. •
Sensation,
Amsterdam Arena. Organized by ID&T. •
Energy, (formerly Trance Energy) Jaarbeurs, Utrecht: Previously Trance only under the name "Trance Energy", the festival was renamed "Energy" in 2011 and begun to incorporate other genres. Organized by ID&T. •
Amsterdam dance event, One of the world's trance and electronic music festivals held every year at Amsterdam in October. •
A State of Trance:
Armin van Buuren's weekly radio show
A State of Trance celebrates every 50th episode with an event in the Netherlands, usually in
Utrecht. • Electronic Family: Organized by ALDA Events. •
Mysteryland. A series of electronic music festivals held by the Dutch promoter ID&T. Being the first of its kind in the country dates back to 1993. • Luminosity: Amsterdam, founded in 2007. With the slogan "Spreading The Love Of Trance Music", the Luminosity Festival is organized by Luminosity Events and is attended by thousands worldwide. • Psy-Fi: outdoor psychedelic trance festival, at Leeuwarden.
North America Canada •
Bal en Blanc is a rave party that is hosted annually, in April during the Easter holiday weekend, in Montreal. This event usually has two separate rooms, one catering to house music and the other to trance music. It usually lasts for more than 14 hours. • Digital Dreams Festival in
Toronto featured a full trance stage in June 2014 • Escapade Music Festival hosted on Canada Day (1 July) in Ottawa • A two-day festival called the U4RIA Trance festival in
Toronto featured 23 International acts, 12 Canadian acts, and 25 hours of music in June 2018. This 2-day all trance festival was the first of its kind in Canada. • Trance Unity, hosted in Montreal, is hosted annually and usually lasts 12 to 14 hours.
United States Electronic music festivals in the United States feature various
electronic music genres such as trance, house, techno, electro,
dubstep, and
drum and bass: •
Decadence, an annual 2-day New Year's Eve electronic dance music festival. Held at the Colorado Convention Center in Denver, it is one of the largest NYE EDM festivals in the U.S. •
Decibel Festival, an annual music and digital arts festival started in 2004 in Seattle. It is dedicated to live electronic music performance, visual art, and new media. The core of the festival comprises concerts, performances, commissioned work, film screenings, and exhibitions. The programming is presented in a variety of locations throughout Seattle, centered on the Capitol Hill neighborhood and Downtown. Since its inception, Decibel has hosted over 750 acts ranging from underground dance and experimental electronic music to transmedial art. •
Ultra Music Festival, an annual outdoor electronic music festival that occurs in March in the city of Miami, Florida. A State of Trance has frequently held milestone celebrations at the festival. 2014 Ultra Miami •
Electric Daisy Carnival, an annual massive organized by
Insomniac Events that was held in Southern California from 1997 to 2010, and was moved to Las Vegas in 2011. In 2009, the festival was expanded to a three-day event. •
Nocturnal Festival, are annual events held in Southern California organized by Insomniac Events, held at Glen Helen Regional Park in
San Bernardino, California in September. Some have also been periodically held at the Downtown, Texas Amphitheater in
Thorndale, Texas, just outside of
Austin. •
Beyond Wonderland, an electronic dance festival in Southern California organized by Insomniac Events. •
Dreamstate, first produced by festival organizer
Insomniac Events on 27–28 November 2015, at the National Orange Show in San Bernardino, California, is the first all-trance festival in North America. •
Electric Zoo Festival, an annual electronic music festival held over Labor Day weekend in New York City on Randall's Island Park. •
Electric Forest Festival, a four-day annual festival in Michigan. •
TomorrowWorld, a three-day annual festival in Chattahoochee Hills, Georgia. Organized by ID&T, TomorrowWorld is a sister festival to
Tomorrowland. •
Spring Awakening, the three-day annual festival in Chicago, Illinois.
Mexico •
Beyond Wonderland, an electronic dance festival in northern Mexico organized by Insomniac Events.
Oceania Australia •
Doof—A type of outdoor dance party, which is generally held in a remote country area or just outside big cities in surrounding bush or rainforests and similar to raves or teknivals. Doofs generally have live electronic artists and DJs playing a range of electronic music, commonly goa trance, techno, drum and bass, and psychedelic trance. •
Defqon.1 Festival—A music festival that mostly plays hardstyle and related genres such as hardcore techno, hard house and hard trance, the event has been hosted in
Sydney in mid-September since 2009 at the
Sydney International Regatta Centre. •
Rainbow Serpent Festival—A large electronic music, art, and lifestyle festival, located in
Victoria. The festival is mainly known for psychedelic trance and minimal techno music, but also features other genres of electronic music and non-electronic music in the smaller stages.
South America Argentina •
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