🇳🇱Luminosity Beach Festival
ANNUALLuminosity Beach Festival is the canonical Dutch outdoor trance festival, run by Luminosity Events. The organisation was founded in 2006 and the first edition followed in 2007 on the Dutch coast; the festival has been held annually since, except for 2020 when it was cancelled due to Covid-19. It has cycled through nearby beachclubs (Beachclub Fuel in Bloemendaal aan Zee earlier, Beachclub Bernie's in Zandvoort from 2024 onwards) and runs as a four-day late-June event. It is widely regarded as the spiritual home of contemporary uplifting and tech-trance, with FSOE, Subculture, Pure Trance, and VII Records all hosting stages. The 2026 edition (25–28 June at Beachclub Bernie's, Zandvoort) features over 120 artists across the bill — headliners include Aly & Fila, John O'Callaghan, Bryan Kearney, Ferry Corsten, Markus Schulz, Paul van Dyk, Giuseppe Ottaviani, Mauro Picotto, and Will Atkinson.
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