Tomorrowland CORE Festival To Make U.S. Debut In Los Angeles In 2026

Tomorrowland is bringing its world-famous CORE stage to the United States for the very first time.

The European festival giant today unveiled a series of 2026 festivals under its globetrotting CORE house and techno event series, with debut stops in Los Angeles, California, and Melbourne, Australia, and a return to Medellín, Colombia, set to mark the first time the stage’s famous face design has hosted a standalone festival on three different continents.

Following successful editions in Medellín over the last two years in collaboration with local promoter Breakfast Live, the two-day CORE festival will return to Colombia’s second-largest city on February 20-21, 2026. CORE will then partner with Insomniac Events to bring the stage to a TBA venue in Los Angeles for daytime shows on May 2-3, 2026, marking a continued alliance between Tomorrowland and the U.S. electronic promoter after their joint UNITY shows debut at the Las Vegas Sphere this fall.

A final single-day event will hit Melbourne in collaboration with Aussie agencies Framed and Pitch Control on November 28. 

Though Tomorrowland’s in-house creative team has developed two iterations of the CORE stage—a newer version with its face split by an LED video wall, and the beloved original—it remains unclear which design will appear at each event.

Musically, fans can expect lineups to feature an eclectic blend of house and techno styles on offer from the scene’s leading DJs. Lineups for CORE’s 2026 run will be revealed in September or October for Medellín, in January for Los Angeles, and in early 2026 for Melbourne, respectively, according to a press release. Core Medellín 2025 featured sets from Âme, Dixon, Paul Kalkbrenner, Carlita, Avalon Emerson, KETTAMA, WhoMadeWho, and ANNA B2B Vintage Culture, among others. 

In addition to Colombia, CORE has previously touched down at multiple editions of Tomorrowland Winter and Tomorrowland Brazil, and Mexico’s Zamna Tulum on its path from fan-favorite Tomorrowland Belgium stage to full-fledged touring festival.

Pre-sale registration for Tomorrowland presents CORE 2026 is now open here. For more information, visit core.world.

Featured image courtesy: Tomorrowland.