3 Units You Cannot Miss on the 2026 VELD Pageant

VELD returns to Toronto’s Downsview Park with greater than 50 acts from July thirty first to August 2nd.

VELD Music Pageant has spent greater than a decade turning Downsview Park into the guts of Canadian dance music tradition every summer season, and its 2026 version is about to proceed the development.

The nation’s greatest digital music competition returns for its thirteenth annual version with its signature Ferris wheel and the stylistic vary that pulls a broad vary of trance, home, techno and bass music onto the identical grounds. Since its 2012 debut headlined by the late Avicii, it has grown right into a weekend that pulls over 100 thousand followers to the park all through the weekend.

The highest of the invoice runs the gamut with famous person DJs Armin van Buuren, FISHER, ILLENIUM and extra. With a lineup this deep, narrowing it down turns into its personal problem. However three units stand out as unmissable, whether or not you’re there for a uncommon reunion, peak-time techno or arduous dance at full throttle.

Tickets to VELD are on sale right here.

Kx5 (deadmau5 and Kaskade)

Alongside Avicii, deadmau5 headlined VELD’s very first version again in 2012 and now returns to Downsview Park with Kaskade for his or her first time performing on the competition as a duo. Anticipate a catalog-spanning present from 2008 staples ‘I Bear in mind’ and ‘Transfer for Me’ to 2022’s ‘Escape.’ The efficiency is one among solely a handful of KX5 dates on the calendar this competition season.

Named to the EDM.com Class of 2024, the artist followers affectionally name the “Excessive Priestess of Onerous Techno” has turned 2026 into one other momentous 12 months, from a historic Extremely Miami b2b with Amelie Lens to this month’s new single ‘Shake That,’ with a sophomore album on the best way. Anticipate probably the most bodily, high-BPM hours of the complete weekend from Sara Landry.

Techno famous person Charlotte de Witte arrives on the again of a defining stretch. Her self-titled debut album dropped late final 12 months, and April’s Amor EP with Brazilian vocalist CERES adopted as she celebrates 15 years as an artist.