GA TICKETS ARE 91% SOLD OUT Ultra Music Festival 2026 unleashes blockbuster Phase 1 lineup, featuring 14 debut festival performances
Ultra 2026 will host the first-ever, world-exclusive Amelie Lens B2B Sara Landry set
Ultra will proudly present exclusive sets from two powerhouse pairings: Sebastian Ingrosso b2b Steve Angello, and the U.S. debut of Adam Beyer b2b Joseph Capriati
Global hitmakers such as John Summit, DJ Snake, Major Lazer, Hardwell, Armin van Buuren, and Vintage Culture are set to return to Ultra
The festival will also feature house and techno heavyweights including Carl Cox, Eric Prydz, Miss Monique, Boris Brejcha, Eli Brown, Sasha_John Digweed, and Adriatique
Ultra welcomes highly-anticipated festival debut performances from Argentine sensation BZRP, Drum & Bass supergroup WORSHIP (Sub Focus, Dimension, Culture Shock, and 1991), Japanese DJ sensation ¥ØU$UK€ ¥UK1MAT$U, Berlin-based partystarter Marlon Hoffstadt, and WOOLI and CRANKDAT’s superduo WANKDAT, plus the first-ever joint performance between Deorro, Mike Posner & MORTEN as TIMELESS
Ultra’s roster of Live Headliners includes first-time festival performances from Black Tiger Sex Machine presents Connected Fighters, Levity presents Lasership, Of The Trees, Brutalismus 3000, and Snow Strippers, alongside returning favorites Boys Noize, ZHU, Madeon, and Louis The Child
The festival will also showcase headlining sets from bass maestros including Excision, Illenium, and ISOxo
Sara Landry will make her global Ultra debut, leading the festival’s inaugural stage takeover from HEKATE
Ultra to host additional debut festival stage takeovers from The Martinez Brothers’ Cuttin’ Headz and Germany’s Live From Earth collective
The festival will also feature two anniversary stage takeovers, including A State Of Trance (ASOT) celebrating 25 years, and Dirty Workz marking 20 years
ULTRA Worldwide fixture Steve Aoki to celebrate three decades of his Dim Mak record label with a special ‘30 Years of Dim Mak’ stage takeover
Following the RESISTANCE 10th Anniversary World Tour and global club residencies in Ibiza and Miami, Ultra’s house and techno brand will return to host its infamous stages: MegaStructure and The Cove
Friday, March 27 – Sunday, March 29, 2026
Bayfront Park in Downtown Miami
Tickets on sale now
Ultra Music Festival concluded its sold-out 25th anniversary event in 2025 at the iconic Bayfront Park with one of its most successful renditions to date. The highly coveted festival welcomed 165,000 attendees from over 100 countries, and the #ULTRALIVE stream reached 30 million impressions across the weekend. Shortly after, the festival announced its return to Bayfront Park from Friday, March 27 – Sunday, March 29, 2026 for the festival’s 26th edition.
Ultra has now unveiled its monumental Phase 1 lineup for the festival’s 2026 installment, featuring 14 different acts who will be making their Ultra Miami debut performances – reaffirming the festival’s legacy as a world-renowned curator of genre-crossing electronic music talent and the World’s Premier Electronic Music Festival.
As the visionary curator of electronic music’s most unforgettable, once-in-a-lifetime moments, Ultra Music Festival will host three historic joint performances: the first-ever, world-exclusive Amelie Lens b2b Sara Landry set; the U.S. debut of Adam Beyer b2b Joseph Capriati, and an exclusive set from Sebastian Ingrosso B2B Steve Angello.
Ultra 2026 will welcome a plethora of debut headlining performances that encompass the vast spectrum of electronic music.
The legendary drum & bass collective WORSHIP, featuring UK tastemakers Sub Focus, Dimension, Culture Shock, and 1991, will make its Ultra Music Festival debut, further defining the genre’s growing presence in America. Established as world leaders in their sound, WORSHIP pushes the vanguard of new-wave drum and bass, a unique synergy forms when these artists play under the WORSHIP moniker.
Argentine music producer and DJ BZRP will make his Ultra debut, transporting the sounds of hip-hop, reggaetón, and electronic music to mark a cultural moment for the festival’s 26th edition.
In another festival first, Berlin-based partystarter Marlon Hoffstadt will bring his high-energy blend of techno, Eurodance, and dance-pop to mark his debut performance. Additionally, bass kings Wooli and Crankdat will team up for the first time at Ultra Music Festival under their Wankdat alias, while Japanese viral DJ sensation ¥ØU$UK€ ¥UK1MAT$U will make his festival debut at the 2026 event.
For the first time in history, Mexican-American innovator Deorro, singer-songwriter Mike Posner, and “Future Rave” icon MORTEN will combine their unique sonic styles for the world debut live performance of ‘TIMELESS’ at Ultra Music Festival’s 26th edition. The three artists have individually racked up hundreds of millions of streams and will join forces for pioneering supercollab that promises to be one of the highlights of the weekend.
Debut live performances at Ultra Music Festival 2026 include two rising star duos: the Berlin warehouse genre-blenders Brutalismus 3000 and electroclash revivalists Snow Strippers.
Phase 1’s live headliners are rounded out by Levity Presents Lasership, which follows the superstar bass trio’s Ultra 2024 set; renowned future bass duo Louis The Child, who last played Ultra in 2019; French phenom Madeon, performing his new cinematic live show; and the Ultra debut of bass experimentalist Of The Trees.
GRAMMY-nominated global sensation DJ Snake will return to the festival after four years to bring his chart-dominating anthems and high octane stage presence. The French trailblazer is known around the world for his genre crossover prowess and timeless classics.
Enigmatic producer and vocalist ZHU will make his highly anticipated return to Ultra for the first time since 2017 bringing his cinematic live performance filled with brooding visuals and cutting edge sound design.
New York-bred underground luminaries The Martinez Brothers return to the festival for the first time in seven years to bring the debut Cuttin’ Headz stage takeover.
Trance legend Armin van Buuren has been a mainstay at Ultra since his inaugural performance in 2005, and 21 years later, he continues to push the boundaries of his artistry. This year, Armin van Buuren will deliver yet another mesmeric headlining set, in addition to hosting a stage takeover from his global radio show A State of Trance – which will mark the 14th ASOT takeover in the festival’s history and commemorate the brand’s 25th anniversary in 2026.
Two-time GRAMMY-nominated artist, DJ, and producer & global party starter Steve Aoki will once again headline Ultra, while marking 30 years of his iconic Dim Mak imprint with a special stage takeover. Known for his high-octane and boundary-pushing performances, Aoki’s explosive Sunday Main Stage set last year featured surprise cameos from Trippie Redd, Swae Lee, Mike Posner, Marnik, and Jessica Baio – and fans can expect even bigger surprises for this milestone celebration.
Canadian bass trio and Kannibalen Records label heads Black Tiger Sex Machine will return to Ultra with their immersive ‘Connected Fighters’ audiovisual live show. Rooted in the group’s ever-evolving sci-fi universe, the performance brings their legend of connected fighters to life through a cinematic fusion of story, sound, and technology, delivering a fully synchronized experience that blurs the lines between concert and narrative spectacle.
Boys Noize Live will make its return to Ultra Music Festival, with the German artist having played his last Ultra solo set in 2015 (and performing alongside Skrillex as Dog Blood at Ultra 2019.)
Ultra Music Festival will also welcome festival veterans including; superstar artist/producer John Summit, Dutch sensation Hardwell, true innovator of the international scene & dance music icon Carl Cox, Billboard-charting producer ILLENIUM, underground techno duo Adriatique, German masked minimal maestro Boris Brejcha,, the Diplo-led group Major Lazer, underground legends Sasha_John Digweed, UK tech house talent Eli Brown, Italian hard-techno duo 999999999, Swedish production wonder Eric Prydz, Ukrainian techno purveyor Miss Monique, Canadian bass icon Excision, Brazilian titan Vintage Culture, and modern trap pioneer ISOxo.
In addition to Dim Mak, ASOT, and Cuttin’ Headz, Ultra will also feature stage takeovers from legendary hardstyle label Dirty Workz, who are returning to Ultra for the fifth consecutive year and celebrating their 20th anniversary, as well as Ultra takeover debuts from Sara Landry’s techno imprint Hekate and Germany’s multi-disciplinary Live from Earth collective.
Following the RESISTANCE 10th Anniversary World Tour and global club residencies in Ibiza and Miami, Ultra’s house and techno brand will return to host its infamous stages: MegaStructure and The Cove.
Featuring an extensive array of world-class performers, Ultra’s expertly crafted Phase 1 lineup is a tour de force of genre-crossing talent. From trailblazing global debuts to the celebrated homecomings of festival favorites, the Phase 1 lineup aptly sets the tone for more show-stopping artist announcements to come.
Ahead of the festival’s 26th edition, fans can relive the magic of Ultra Music Festival’s 25th anniversary with the official aftermovie: ‘Into Hyperspace’.
ABOUT ULTRA MUSIC FESTIVAL
Since its inception in Miami, Ultra Music Festival, co-founded in 1999 by CEO, Russell Faibisch, has evolved from a one-day event on Miami Beach to an internationally renowned, three-day festival at Downtown Miami’s idyllic, waterfront venue of Bayfront Park, annually welcoming 165,000 attendees from more than 100 countries. For its 15th anniversary, Ultra Music Festival took place across two weekends in 2013 with a combined attendance of over 330,000. Since 2012, the festival has also pioneered the electronic music live stream experience with #UltraLIVE, boasting more than 2.3 billion views on livestream and artist-uploaded sets since its start.
The festival’s economic impact has been estimated at nearly a billion dollars in revenue for the city of Miami since 2012. Ultra Music Festival has established its 25-year legacy by showcasing top-tier electronic music acts and unparalleled production every March and has been voted the world’s #1 music festival by DJ Mag on multiple occasions.
Ultra has evolved from a single-day event in Miami, into the world’s most international music festival with events on all six inhabited continents and more than 30 countries.
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ULTRA MUSIC FESTIVAL 2026 PHASE 1 LINEUP (A-Z)
HEADLINERS
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ADAM BEYER B2B JOSEPH CAPRIATI (EXCLUSIVE, U.S. DEBUT)
ADRIATIQUE
AMELIE LENS B2B SARA LANDRY (EXCLUSIVE WORLD DEBUT)
ARMIN VAN BUUREN (EXCLUSIVE)
BORIS BREJCHA (EXCLUSIVE)
BZRP (EXCLUSIVE, FESTIVAL DEBUT)
CARL COX (EXCLUSIVE)
DJ SNAKE
ELI BROWN
ERIC PRYDZ (EXCLUSIVE)
EXCISION (EXCLUSIVE)
HARDWELL (EXCLUSIVE)
ILLENIUM (EXCLUSIVE)
ISOXO (EXCLUSIVE)
JOHN SUMMIT (EXCLUSIVE)
MAJOR LAZER (EXCLUSIVE)
MARLON HOFFSTADT (EXCLUSIVE, FESTIVAL DEBUT)
THE MARTINEZ BROTHERS (EXCLUSIVE)
MISS MONIQUE (EXCLUSIVE)
SASHA_JOHN DIGWEED (EXCLUSIVE)
SEBASTIAN INGROSSO B2B STEVE ANGELLO (EXCLUSIVE)
STEVE AOKI
VINTAGE CULTURE
WANKDAT (WOOLI + CRANKDAT) (EXCLUSIVE, FESTIVAL DEBUT)
WORSHIP (EXCLUSIVE, FESTIVAL DEBUT)
¥ØU$UK€ ¥UK1MAT$U (EXCLUSIVE, FESTIVAL DEBUT)
LIVE HEADLINERS
BLACK TIGER SEX MACHINE PRESENTS CONNECTED FIGHTERS (EXCLUSIVE, FESTIVAL DEBUT OF CONNECTED FIGHTERS)
BOYS NOIZE LIVE (EXCLUSIVE)
BRUTALISMUS 3000 (EXCLUSIVE, FESTIVAL DEBUT)
DEORRO, MIKE POSNER, MORTEN: TIMELESS (EXCLUSIVE WORLD DEBUT)
LEVITY PRESENTS LASERSHIP (EXCLUSIVE, FESTIVAL DEBUT OF LASERSHIP)
LOUIS THE CHILD (EXCLUSIVE)
MADEON (EXCLUSIVE)
OF THE TREES (EXCLUSIVE, FESTIVAL DEBUT)
SNOW STRIPPERS (EXCLUSIVE, FESTIVAL DEBUT)
ZHU (EXCLUSIVE)
STAGE TAKEOVERS
30 YEARS OF DIM MAK
A STATE OF TRANCE
CUTTIN’ HEADZ
HEKATE
LIVE FROM EARTH
