🇺🇸Electric Zoo New York

ANNUAL
DATES
Annually in August–September
Three-day festival over the Labor Day weekend
VENUE
Randall's Island Park
Randall's Island, New York, NY 10035
Capacity: ~90,000

Electric Zoo is the long-running New York City dance festival, founded in 2009 and held annually over the Labor Day weekend at Randall's Island Park in the East River. Trance reaches the festival via the Sunday School stage, which has hosted dedicated trance line-ups in multiple editions, with Armin van Buuren, Above & Beyond, Paul van Dyk, Andrew Rayel, and Aly & Fila across the festival's run. Sunday School has been an A State of Trance partnership in select years, broadcast as part of ASOT's tour calendar.

Headliners

ASSOCIATED LABELS

Armada MusicAnjunabeatsFSOE Recordings

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Past Editions

2024
August 30 – September 1
2023
September 1–3
2022
September 2–4
2019
August 30 – September 1
2009
Inaugural Electric Zoo edition

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