John Summit’s Experts Only Festival Will Return in 2026: Here’s When Tickets Start Going on Sale

John Summit announced Friday (Nov. 21) that his Experts Only festival will return for year two in 2026.

The news comes after a successful 2025 debut this past September, when the fest happened on Randall’s Island in New York City with a lineup including Summit collaborators and compatriots including Kaskade, Cassian, Green Velvet, Layton Giordani, LP Giobbi, Pete Tong and two headlining sets from Summit himself. The festival drew approximately 50,000 fans over its two days, organizers report.

Experts Only 2026 will happen Sept. 19-20. The event will once again be produced with in partnership with Medium Rare, Relentless Beats and EMW. A ticket presale happens on Nov. 25, with additional sales to be announced.

Experts Only Festival is, of course, named after Summit’s Experts Only label, which releases music by Summit and a crew of producers, and which ranked No. 1 on Beatport’s global label chart in 2024 and for much of 2025. Talking to Billboard about the label in September, Summit says throwing a festival to showcase all the music was “the obvious next step.” He added: “I’ve grown close friendships with everyone, too, so it’s going to feel like a family affair and not a big corporate festival where we just tried booking DJs that would sell as many tickets as possible.”

Meanwhile, Friday also saw the release of a drum and bass edit of Summit’s own remix of Delerium’s 1997 classic “Silence” by English producer Dimension. The track is out via Tomorrowland Music; listen to it below.