Loveland Festival was founded in 1995, making this its 31th year.
The festival is part of Loveland Events's portfolio of electronic music events.
Loveland is one of the oldest dance music brands in the Netherlands, and in 2026 it returns to Sloterpark in Amsterdam on 8 and 9 August. The story starts in 1995, when founder Marnix Bal threw a charity pool party called Swim & Dance in Zandvoort, mixing house records with a swimming pool to raise money and promote safe sex through the Loveland Foundation. Three decades on, the brand has grown into a two-day August festival held inside Amsterdam's largest park, a 300 acre green space wrapped around the Sloterplas lake in the Nieuw-West district. The 2026 bill runs to 72 artists across house, techno and melodic sounds, headlined by Fatboy Slim, Eric Prydz, Sven Vath, Ben Klock, the long-running pairing of Sasha and John Digweed, CamelPhat, Jamie Jones, Mau P and Kolsch. The 2025 edition, on 9 and 10 August, marked the festival's 30th anniversary and saw early bird tickets sell out in under a day. Loveland also runs a free livestream on its own YouTube channel, broadcasting across two channels and posting full sets afterward, so the lakeside weekend reaches well beyond the gates of Sloterpark.
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Loveland streams its festival for free on its own YouTube channel. In 2024 the team broadcast live across two simultaneous channels over the 10 and 11 August weekend, then re-uploaded individual full sets in cleaned-up audio and video, building an archive that includes performances from Ben Klock, Dave Clarke, Robert Hood and Speedy J. The festival's official Live page confirms the same two-channel YouTube setup for the 8 and 9 August 2026 edition, with streams running from midday into the evening and uploads to follow afterward. Audio versions of many sets also appear on the festival's SoundCloud as the Loveland Legacy series. The stream has consistently been free to watch with no paywall.
Loveland began in August 1995 as a charity event called Swim & Dance at a swimming pool in Zandvoort, pairing house music with a pool party to promote safe sex under the Loveland Foundation.
The festival is staged inside Sloterpark, Amsterdam's largest park at more than 300 acres, set on the Sloterplas lake in the city's Nieuw-West district rather than on a remote greenfield.
It is one of the longest-running dance brands in the Netherlands, founded by Marnix Bal and now run by Loveland Events, and it programs a house and techno bill that has run to more than 70 acts across a weekend.
The festival takes place at Sloterpark in Netherlands.
Loveland Festival was founded in 1995, making this its 31th year.
The festival is part of Loveland Events's portfolio of electronic music events.