Veld Music Festival
| VELD Music Festival | |
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deadmau5 at 2016 VELD
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| Genre | EDM, Hip hop |
| Date(s) | 2-day weekend in early August or early July |
| Location(s) |
Downsview Park Toronto, Ontario, Canada |
| Years active | 2012-present |
| Founder | INK Entertainment |
| Attendance | 30,000 (single-day estimate) |
| Website | |
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VELD Music Festival (commonly referred to as VELD) is an annual electronic dance music and hip-hop music festival held at the Downsview Park in Toronto, Ontario. Since its inception in 2005, the festival attracts crowds numbering in the tens of thousand and notable acts including Armin van Buuren, A$AP Rocky, Avicii, Calvin Harris, deadmau5, Steve Aoki, and The Chainsmokers. The Toronto-native deadmau5 has been a first-day headliner at the event in four out of the past five annual two-day festival.
In April 2012, a two-day electronic dance music (EDM) festival to be held at Downsview Park in the Toronto area on August 4–5 was announced. The initial line-up included notable EDM acts such as deadmau5, Avicii, Bassnectar, Steve Aoki, Steve Angello, Knife Party, and Nicky Romero. The festival, organized by Charles Khabouth’s INK Entertainment, features two neighboring stages and performances by about thirty or so different artists. The event is named after "The Veldt", a song by the deadmau5 and a veld, "an Afrikaans word for an open grassland... not unlike the vast field in Downsview Park."
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