Monthly music festival returns to the Toronto Islands

Even though Bestival has abandoned the Toronto Islands for Woodbine Park this year, it'll still be easy to catch live music a short ferry ride away. This afternoon, Electric Island, the city's annual EDM festival series, announced it's returning to Hanlan's Point on May 23 and will be hosting a number of shows up until the first weekend of September.

This year we'll see heavy-hitters like Sven Väth and Jamie Jones take the stage, so get excited.

Here's the full lineup:

• Âme
• Apollonia
• andhim
• Ben Klock VS Marcel Dettmann
• Bicep
• Black Coffee
• Dixon
• DJ Tennis
• Fatima Yamaha
• Get Real: Green Velvet & Claude VonStroke
• Gui Boratto
• Guy Gerber
• Guy J
• Jamie Jones
• Job Jobse
• Justin Martin
• Loco Dice
• Nicole Moudaber
• Nitin
• Paul Kalkbrenner
• Sven Väth
• Tale of Us
• Aaron Santos VS Cosmic JD
• Alberto Jossue
• Borzoo
• Brian Johnson
• Butrous
• Dirty Dale
• Jamie Kidd
• Jeff Button
• Jonathan Rosa
• Members Only
• Nature of Music
• Koki
• Simon Jain
• Sean Miller

Electic Island dates for 2016 include May 23, July 1, August 1, September 4-5. GA Early Bird season passes are already on sale and will run you $149.99+HST (or $179.99+HST if you want your ferry ride included).

Photo via Electric Island on Facebook.

by Alice Prendergast via blogTO