🇺🇸Dreamstate San Francisco
ANNUALDreamstate San Francisco is the SF Bay Area sister edition to Dreamstate SoCal, run by Insomniac and staged at the Bill Graham Civic Auditorium in downtown San Francisco. Smaller than the November SoCal flagship but a fixture of the US trance touring calendar, Dreamstate SF runs as a single-day or two-day production typically early in the year. Line-ups are line-up'd on the Insomniac / FSOE / Armada axis: Aly & Fila, Paul van Dyk, Andrew Rayel, Gareth Emery, and Ferry Corsten are recurring headliners, with the same broad uplifting / progressive / psytrance / vocal stage palette as the SoCal flagship.
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