🇳🇱Luminosity Beach Festival
ANNUALLuminosity Beach Festival is the canonical Dutch outdoor trance festival, staged on the beach at Bloemendaal aan Zee just north of Zandvoort each late June. Run since 2010 by Luminosity Events, it has become the spiritual home of contemporary uplifting and tech-trance — Aly & Fila, John O'Callaghan, Bryan Kearney, Simon Patterson, and Allen Watts are recurring fixtures, with FSOE, Subculture, Pure Trance, and VII Records all running stages. The festival is the closest thing the modern 138 BPM scene has to a flagship outdoor home.
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