The following is a list of dance music festivals that showcase Trance music. Music Fest Asia India: Sunburn Festival launched in December 2007 as South Asias first electronic music festival, and featured heavyweights like Carl Cox and John 00 Fleming. Located seaside in Goa, on Indias west coast, the festival has its roots in Goa trance. Sunburn treated more than 5,000[citation needed] electro revelers to a three-day party by the beach in December 2008. At the 2009 festival, DJs such as Armin Van Buuren and Sander van Doorn participated with audience numbers running between 15,000 to 18,000 making it the biggest edition yet.[citation needed]As of the 2010 festival, it showed the likes of Paul Van Dyk and many other DJs with estimated crowds of 30,000 people.[citation needed] Thailand: Full Moon Party Held each month on the island of Koh Phangan. Thousands of people from across the world gather on Haad Rin Nok (Sunrise Beach) to dance under the moonlight. Europe[edit] Clubbers at Gatecrasher on April 16th, 2006 Portugal: Boom Festival (the last edition was in Idanha-a-Nova) since 1997. This event is an outdoor festival running every two years with a duration of several days, focusing in psychedelic Goa trance. The festival also features workshops, presentations, and cinema. Switzerland: Street Parade – The worlds biggest electronic music festival (more than one million visitors attend this event year by year). Belgium: Tomorrowland – The largest Belgian open-air electronic music festival. 2010 had more than 120.000 visitors.[citation needed] Tomorrowland in 2011 had a capacity of up to 180.000 visitors.[citation needed] DJs such as Armin Van Buuren, Arty, Cosmic Gate and many more. United Kingdom: Gatecrasher also promotes sporadic events and have in the past also used venues such as Birmingham N.E.C. Czech Republic: Transmission, Prague, since 2006. The biggest indoor Trance Music event in middle and eastern Europe. Germany: We Are One, Berlin, since 2010. This is an Electronic Dance Music event, with the presence of Trance music stars like Paul van Dyk, Armin van Buuren and many others. We are One is a Paul van Dyks brand. After the success of the last edition (Summer of 2013), they are looking forward to the next episode in 2014, developing this unique Berlin Dance Festival. Netherlands[edit] Electronic Dance Music festivals in the Netherlands are mainly organized by four companies ALDA Events, ID&T, UDC and Q-dance: Armin Only, Jaarbeurs, Utrecht: the only DJ to mix at this event is Armin van Buuren. Organized by ALDA Events. Armin Only 2005 was held in Ahoy Rotterdam. The 2008 and 2010 editions were held in Jaarbeurs Utrecht. The 2013 edition was held in the Ziggo Dome, Amsterdam Dance Valley, Spaarnwoude: an outdoor festival organized by UDC. Sensation, Amsterdam Arena. Organized by ID&T. Energy, (Formerly Trance Energy) Jaarbeurs, Utrecht: Previously Trance only under the name Trance Energy, the festival was renamed Energy in 2011 and begun to incorporate other genres. Organized by ID&T. Amsterdam dance event, One of the worlds trance and electronic music festivals held every year in Amsterdam in October. A State of Trance, Armin van Buurens weekly radio show A State of Trance celebrates every 50th episode with an event. Episode 400 was held in Rotterdam. Episodes 500, 550 and 600 were held in the Brabanthallen, s-Hertogenbosch. Episode 650 was held in the Jaarbeurs, Utrecht. Electronic Family. A Trance only festival. This year for the third time in the Amsterdamse Bos, Amsterdam. Organized by ALDA Events. Mysteryland. A series of electronic dance music festivals held by the Netherlands-based promoter ID&T. Being the first of its kind in the country dates back to 1993. Luminosity, Amsterdam, founded in 2007. With the slogan Spreading The Love Of Trance Music, the Luminosity festival is considered to be a 100% Trance by some followers, and its organized by a foundation named Luminosity Events. In 2013, the event keeps the tradition, with a beach festival plenty of trance music stars, and as they say: Luminosity Events is a non profit foundation run by volunteers who have a big heart for Trance music.. North America[edit] Canada: Bal en Blanc is a rave party that is hosted annually, in April during Easter holiday weekend, in Montreal. This event usually has two separate rooms, one catering to house music and the other to trance music. It usually lasts for more than 14 hours. United States[edit] Electronic Dance Music festivals in the US feature various EDM genres such as Trance, House, Techno, Electro, Dubstep, Breaks, and Drum & Bass: Ultra Music Festival, an annual outdoor electronic music festival that occurs in March in the city of Miami, Florida. Electric Daisy Carnival, an annual massive organized by Insomniac Events that was held in Southern California from 1997 to 2010, and was moved to Las Vegas in 2011. In 2009, the festival was expanded to a three day event. Nocturnal Festival, are annual events held in southern California and Thorndale, Texas organized by Insomniac Events, held at the NOS Events Center in San Bernardino, California in either August or September. Beyond Wonderland, an electronic dance festival in northern California organized by Insomniac Events Electric Zoo Festival, an annual electronic music festival held over Labor Day weekend in New York City on Randalls Island Park. Electric Forest Festival 4 day Annual festival in Michigan bringing very large crowds Australia[edit] Doof - A type of outdoor dance party, generally held in a remote country area or just outside big cities in surrounding bush or rainforests and similar to raves or teknivals. Doof generally has live electronic artists and DJs playing a range of electronic music, commonly goa trance, eurodance, happy hardcore and psychedelic trance. Defqon.1 Festival - A music festival that mostly plays hardstyle and related genres such as hardcore techno, hard house and hard trance, the event has been hosted in Sydney in mid-September since 2009 at the Sydney International Regatta Centre. Rainbow Serpent Festival - A large electronic music, art and lifestyle festival, located in Victoria. The festival is mainly known for psychedelic trance and minimal techno music, but also features other genres of electronic music and non electronic music in the smaller stages. Stereosonic - Largest Electronic music festival in Oceania, two days celebration since 2013, located in Australia. The festival features a full Trance Stage every year during summer, and also includes big names of Trance music in the Main Stage such as, Armin Van Buuren, Above And Beyond, etc.
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