Electric Forest 2026: Tech House Magic Lights Up Sherwood Forest
Electric Forest 2026 June 25–28 Rothbury MI: Sherwood Forest glows with secret parties, Tripolee house beats, epic installs. Chris Lake headlines, GRiZ doubles up, wild B2Bs await. Tickets vanishing fast?
There is a forest in Michigan that stops existing as a forest every June. The trees stay. Everything else changes. Lights swallow the canopy. Stages appear between the oaks. Forty thousand people wander in and don't come back out the same. Electric Forest 2026 runs June 25 to 28 and the lineup this year is one that you can't miss for anything.
About The Electric Festival
The Sherwood Forest is not a stage name. It's a real forest that gets rewired every year. Artists hang installations from the canopy, build interacitive environments in the clearings, and create things that only exist for those four days in June. At night it goes fully electric, lit from inside, with secret parties appearing in clearings and small stages scattered through the woods with no signs pointing to them. The main stages go quiet around 11 PM. That's when the forest gets loud.
The Tripolee stage is where most of the house and electronic programming lives, and it runs from the first set of the day to the last. If you are standing at Tripolee at 2 AM with the bass rattling your ribcage, know that this is exactly what the stage was built for. Sherwood Court sits right at the edge of the forest, fully lined with LED panels so the visuals shift for every artist. It is one of the more technically impressive setups at any American festival and it makes every set feel like its own world.
The House Lineup Is Doing Something to People.
Chris Lake is headlining. Not just playing, headlining. His tech house sound has spent years straddling the line between underground and enormous, and a forest stage at midnight is exactly where it belongs. Deep cuts, heavy drops, the kind of set that makes the person next to you a stranger at 11 PM and someone you are texting in September.
KASKADE brings the progressive house sound that shaped a generation.
SIDEPIECE handles the tech house slot and if you know, you already bought your ticket.
Purple Disco Machine is on the bill doing what Purple Disco Machine does, which is make every single person in the crowd feel like the main character of a 1970s film they didn't know they were in.
Bob Moses is playing a club set. Not the introspective stuff. The dark, driving, do-not-talk-to-me-I-am-dancing club set. Lane 8 brings melodic house that builds slowly and hits hard. Odd Mob, Devault and Disco Lines fill out an undercard that would headline most festivals on its own. Sammy Virji, MPH, and Oppidan bring UK garage to a forest in Michigan, which sounds absurd and will absolutely work.
Everything Else Hitting The Lineup
GRiZ is playing twice. A full live set and a separate Chasing the Golden Hour set at sunset. Two different versions of the same artist in the same weekend. ILLENIUM closes nights at Ranch Arena. Excision is there for you when you need something physically loud. And DJ Diesel B2B T-Pain are doing a dubstep set together. Shaquille O'Neal. T-Pain. Dubstep. In a forest. Nobody predicted this and everyone is going.
Phase 2 confirmed Galantis, Yaeji, and newly reunited live electronic improvisers EOTO, who build sets in real time with zero setlist. You can't predict what happens. That is the entire point.
Plan Your Weekend
The main stages go quiet around 11 PM. That's when the forest gets loud. Veterans will tell you to plan your whole Sunday around being inside Sherwood at midnight. They are not wrong. Spend at least one afternoon in the hammock gardens before sunset and at least one night wandering with no agenda. Both things. Not one.
Tickets and passes are available at electricforest.com. The forest doesn't wait, get them now.
