August 1, 2025

If you’re craving those pulsing bass drops and summer night vibes, mark your calendars for August 1-3 when VELD Music Festival takes over Downsview Park. This thing has been Toronto’s electronic heartbeat since 2012, growing from a local bash into Canada’s biggest EDM showdown. Every summer, thousands of us flood those gates, ready to dance […]

If you’ve spent a summer in Toronto, you know the city lives for festival season. And nothing shakes the concrete like the Toronto electronic music festival taking over Downsview Park every August. This year? Mark August 1-3, 2025, right now. VELD isn’t just another rave—it’s where 42,000 people become one pulsing crowd under the skyline.

Toronto summers aren’t complete without that bass-driven heartbeat from Downsview Park. I’ll never forget my first VELD in 2022: sweat dripping down my neck as Deadmau5’s “Strobe” fused with 40,000 screaming voices under the August sky. That moment cemented why this electronic music Toronto spectacle isn’t just an event—it’s our city’s electric soul. This year,