2017 to feature around 2500 performers, an all-time record number, playing in over 140 locations around Amsterdam.

The Amsterdam Dance Event (ADE), the world's largest club festival and the most important business conference for electronic music, today announced the first selection of artists for 2017. Among them are Danny Tenaglia, Fatima Yamaha, Jeff Mills, Joris Voorn, Martin Garrix, Nicole Moudaber and Paul Oakenfold. The organisers expect to welcome a record...

The 22nd edition of the Amsterdam Dance Event (ADE) takes place October 18th-22nd in the Tolhuistuin, Brakke Grond and Melkweg venues with the DeLaMar Theater taking centre stage.

After 16 years in the Felix Meritis, the Amsterdam Dance Event, an initiative of Buma, will be moving to the DeLaMar Theater this year to allow major renovations to take place in its old venue. The DeLaMar is ideally situated next...

The Amsterdam Dance Event (ADE) announces the complete program for the upcoming edition, which will take place from October 19th – 23rd 2016. With well over 2.200 artists, 450 conference speakers and a record breaking 140 participating venues, Amsterdam Dance Event is the world’s biggest dance music club festival and leading business platform for the electronic music industry. For the 2016 edition, the 21st since ADE’s inception in 1996, the...

The Amsterdam Dance Event (ADE), the world’s largest club-based festival and conference for electronic music, will take place this year from the 19th to 23rd of October. The ADE Festival will feature 300 events and over 2000 DJ’s from the whole spectrum of electronic sub-genres, across 5 days in 100 different clubs and venues, making Amsterdam one of the busiest and most inspiring clubbing cities in the world.

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ADE 2016 announces second wave of festival acts and the launch of ADE SLEEP/OVER, a new campsite at NDSM wharf.

The Amsterdam Dance Event (ADE), the world’s largest club-based festival and conference for electronic music, will take place this year from the 19th to 23rd of October. The organisers are expecting around 375,000 national and international visitors for the 21st edition. The second wave of festival acts is revealed today,...

Hard Dance Event

ADE's conference focused on the harder styles of dance music takes place at the Tolhuistuin on Thursday October 20. Following recent announcements about ADE Beats' first speakers and ADE Dance & Brands first keynote speaker, we now turn our focus to the harder styles of dance music.

HDE Scales up
The harder styles of dance music are on the rise. After the completely sold out sixth edition...

Amsterdam Dance Event 2016

The Amsterdam Dance Event (ADE), the world’s largest club-based festival and conference for electronic music, will take place this year from the 19th to 23rd of October. The organisers are expecting around 375,000 national and international visitors for the 21st edition. The first wave of festival acts is revealed today, along with further keynote speakers for ADE Conference.

ADE Festival
As previously announced, this year’s Amsterdam Dance Event Festival...

This year’s Amsterdam Dance Event (ADE) will open with ‘Scripted Orkestra’, a collaboration between the acclaimed producer/composer/performer Henrik Schwarz and the world’s leading non-classical orchestra Metropole Orkest. The event will take place in the Melkweg on October 19th and will mark the musical opening of ADE 2016. Tickets go on sale on Saturday 23 April.

Although this is the first time Metropole Orkest will perform at ADE, they are no...

The Amsterdam Dance Event (ADE), the world’s largest club-based festival and conference for electronic music, will take place this year from the 19th to 23rd of October. The organisers are expecting around 375,000 national and international visitors for the 21st edition.

Dance Culture

Over the last 20 years ADE, an initiative of Buma, has become the leading platform for the international dance scene. It is the place 'par excellence' to...

Amsterdam Dance Event

The Amsterdam Dance Event (ADE), the world’s biggest club festival and conference for electronic music, launches a unique short documentary that reflects on today’s global electronic music movement together with inspirational artists and leading industry professionals.

Based on five themes, the documentary takes the audience on a short journey exploring the creation, innovation, collaboration, consumption and celebration of electronic music with the ADE as a backdrop. What inspires and drives...

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