Close to 50,000 dance music fans will turn Surrey’s Holland Park into a giant block party July 3-4 during the 2026 edition of FVDED in the Park.
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’s daily capacity of 24,000 has been upped to around 27,000 for each of the two days.
“We’ve been working for a couple years now to expand a bit,” said festival founder/planner Alvaro Prol, Blueprint Events boss.
“We’re looking to go to 27,000 this year. We’ve already gone past the 24,000, so our biggest year ever in the history of FVDED has already happened.
Future festival expansion to three days is “a conversation, definitely,” Prol said.
“Going three days in the future is the vision,” he added. “We’ve 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’s 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’s definitely something we would love to do.”
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, where stage schedules are posted.
Saturday’s headliner is Dom Dolla (Australian house producer Dominic Louis Matheson), a guy Prol once booked to perform at a small dance club in Vancouver.
“He’s an absolute behemoth of an artist now, incredible,” Prol confirmed. “First time I heard him, he played at Shine — no, it was MIA at the time. I think I paid him two grand and I’m like, ‘This guy’s got a cool name.’ And now he’s massive, a big headliner. That’s 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.”
Blueprint and Live Nation Canada co-produce FVDED (pronounced faded, slang for being high), which has become one of B.C.’s biggest annual EDM festivals.
At Holland Park the festival launched in 2015 with headliners Deadmau5 and The Weeknd, following a popular Mumford & Sons concert there in 2013.
Over the years FVDED has grown in step with the popularity of dance music, Prol says.
“The demand is there, the music is a hit, it’s mainstream now,” he said. “Dance music is so popular everywhere. It’s become, finally, a household thing, not just this underground music. In the last a few years it’s been huge, a hit with all kinds of people.”
This year’s FVDED involves some modifications to give festival-goers more room to dance.
“The site will look beautiful,” Prol promised. “At the main stage we’ve moved some things around to expand the floor, the main dance floor. The Propagate stage has a new look, and the Forest Stage too, where people are going into the treed area, so trying to activate and add more stuff.”
This summer Prol is busy with FIFA World Cup, too, as Blueprint owns and operates Good Co. bars including the one in the heart of the Granville Street fan zone in Vancouver.
“I thought FIFA was going to be a thing but I didn’t think it was going to be oh my god, out of hand. It’s been incredible on Granville Street,” he said.
Asked about opening a Good Co. location in Surrey, Prol replied, “We’re always talking to Surrey, active with the city and business improvement people. I think Blueprint has to own and operate some sort of establishment in Surrey, and we’re just trying to figure out what we can find that’s going to be right.”