Colorado’s longest-running electronic music festival returns September 11–12 at the new LVC Festival Grounds with a stacked, multi-genre lineup spanning house, bass, dubstep, trap and beyond.
Leading this year’s lineup are Tiësto, Kygo, Subtronics, Chris Lake, SLANDER, SVDDEN DEATH and NGHTMRE. The bill also features Chris Lorenzo, SIDEPIECE, Kai Wachi, Getter, TroyBoi, Timmy Trumpet, Noizu, Kompany, Wuki, and more.
The festival’s 2026 lineup reads like a snapshot of the current electronic landscape, moving between festival-sized EDM anthems, underground-leaning house, heavy bass and experimental sounds.
Also on the bill are Virtual Riot b2b YDG, Rossy b2b Pauline Herr, Ship Wrek, JSTJR, Tsu Nami, Viperactive, BOLO, ROMMII, HILLS, Z3LLA, and Zoey808, with additional artists still to be announced.
A New Home for Global Dance
The 2026 edition also marks the debut of the new LVC Festival Grounds, a brand-new indoor/outdoor event space designed for large-scale live events.
For Global Dance, the new venue provides an opportunity to expand the festival’s production footprint, with more space for multiple stages, immersive visuals and the kind of large-scale festival environment that has become synonymous with the event.
The move comes at an interesting moment for Denver’s electronic music scene. Over the past two decades, the city has become one of the country’s major destinations for dance music, fueled by venues such as Red Rocks Amphitheatre and Mission Ballroom, along with a growing calendar of electronic-focused events.
Global Dance has been part of that evolution from the beginning.
Two Decades of Global Dance
First launched more than 20 years ago, Global Dance Festival has grown alongside Denver’s emergence as a national electronic music destination.
Over the years, the festival has welcomed artists including Skrillex, Kaskade, Excision, Pretty Lights, deadmau5, Illenium, Martin Garrix, Above & Beyond, Porter Robinson and Zeds Dead, among countless others.
Its return in 2026 comes after a 2025 hiatus, making this year’s festival particularly notable for Colorado dance music fans. Rather than simply revisiting its past, the latest lineup points toward where the scene is heading—pairing established global headliners with artists pushing bass, house, trap, and experimental electronic music forward.
That balance has long been part of Global Dance’s identity. For Denver fans, the festival is as much about discovering the next artist to break out as it is about seeing established names on a massive stage.
And after a year away, the return gives the Colorado dance community another reason to gather.
The 2026 Global Dance Festival Lineup
- BOLO
- Chris Lake
- Chris Lorenzo
- Getter
- HILLS
- JSTJR
- Kai Wachi
- Kompany
- Kygo
- NGHTMRE
- Noizu
- ROMMII
- Rossy b2b Pauline Herr
- Ship Wrek
- SIDEPIECE
- SLANDER
- Subtronics
- SVDDEN DEATH
- Tiësto
- Timmy Trumpet
- TroyBoi
- Tsu Nami
- Viperactive
- Virtual Riot b2b YDG
- Wuki
- Z3LLA
- Zoey808
- + More
