50,000+ coming to Surrey\u2019s FVDED, one of B.C.\u2019s biggest EDM festivals<\/p>\n
Published 12:14 pm Thursday, June 25, 2026<\/p>\n
Close to 50,000 dance music fans will turn Surrey\u2019s Holland Park into a giant block party July 3-4 during the 2026 edition of FVDED in the Park.<\/p>\n
The annual festival of EDM (electronic dance music) will feature close to 60 artists\/DJs at what will be the biggest FVDED fest yet, as last year\u2019s daily capacity of 24,000 has been upped to around 27,000 for each of the two days.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe\u2019ve been working for a couple years now to expand a bit,\u201d said festival founder\/planner Alvaro Prol, Blueprint Events boss.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe\u2019re looking to go to 27,000 this year. We\u2019ve already gone past the 24,000, so our biggest year ever in the history of FVDED has already happened.<\/p>\n
Future festival expansion to three days is \u201ca conversation, definitely,\u201d Prol said.<\/p>\n
\u201cGoing three days in the future is the vision,\u201d he added. \u201cWe\u2019ve taken hits just like many others in recent years, with COVID, festivals going down, this and that, to be able to continue on. Now the festival\u2019s thriving, the future is really bright. To be able to offer more artists and more opportunity and more work and more economic impact to Surrey, it\u2019s definitely something we would love to do.\u201d<\/p>\n
The 2026 FVDED features Dom Dolla, Fisher, Disco Lines, Griz and dozens of other dance music artists on four stages (Pacific main stage, Northwest Tent, Forest and Propagate). Tickets are sold on fvdedinthepark.com<\/a>, where stage schedules are posted.<\/p>\n Saturday\u2019s headliner is Dom Dolla (Australian house producer Dominic Louis Matheson), a guy Prol once booked to perform at a small dance club in Vancouver.<\/p>\n \u201cHe\u2019s an absolute behemoth of an artist now, incredible,\u201d Prol confirmed. \u201cFirst time I heard him, he played at Shine \u2014 no, it was MIA at the time. I think I paid him two grand and I\u2019m like, \u2018This guy\u2019s got a cool name.\u2019 And now he\u2019s massive, a big headliner. That\u2019s what I love, being able to hire them at their beginning at a small-cap room and being able to be the promoter that stays with them when they go through different (venues), bigger and bigger, to be a festival headline. I love that journey as a promoter.\u201d<\/p>\n Blueprint and Live Nation Canada co-produce FVDED (pronounced faded, slang for being high), which has become one of B.C.\u2019s biggest annual EDM festivals.<\/p>\n