Edmtrain3 min readWe Belong Here Tampa Bay reveals 2026 lineup with deadmau5, Disclosure, ILLENIUM and more
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We Belong Here Tampa Bay has a new home, a third day and a different headliner for each one.
The brand revealed the lineup for its second Tampa Bay edition on October 8. The festival runs December 11 to 13, 2026, at Armature Works Riverfront in Tampa’s Heights District, with more than 40 artists across the 360 Stage, the Pier Stage and the Lost Village. deadmau5 takes Friday, Disclosure plays a DJ set on Saturday and ILLENIUM closes Sunday. The event is strictly 21+.
Across the bay to the Hillsborough River
The 2025 debut ran two days at the St. Pete Pier on December 13 and 14, with Kaskade, Lane 8, ODESZA and Elderbrook on top. It had sold out by mid-September, three months before the gates opened.
Year two crosses the bay to Tampa. Armature Works backs onto a restored 1910 streetcar barn with the downtown skyline across the river, and We Belong Here is keeping the setup it runs everywhere: no LED walls, an oversized dance floor, free water stations and air-conditioned restroom trailers. St. Pete regulars still have a way in, with One N Only shuttle packages planned from downtown St. Pete, the Tropicana Field and Edge District area, Ybor City and downtown Tampa.
One headliner per day
deadmau5 already knows the brand. Kx5, his project with Kaskade, opened We Belong Here Brooklyn at Brooklyn Army Terminal on June 19, and Friday in Tampa is his solo turn. Disclosure’s DJ set gives Saturday its house anchor.
Cassian and Nora En Pure both play Friday, Nora with a sunset set a year after she shared the top of the 2025 bill at We Belong Here Central Park. Jackie Hollander lands Saturday and Kasbo brings a DJ set on Sunday. Archie Hamilton, FLETCH and SLAMM cover the tech house end across the weekend.
Two more names are worth circling. Mat Zo, the London producer behind ‘Easy’ with Porter Robinson and a run of Anjunabeats releases, adds trance and progressive pedigree to Friday. We Belong Here co-founder Justin Dauman is also on the Saturday bill.
The Sunday outlier
ILLENIUM is the booking that stands out. We Belong Here built its name on melodic house and techno, and a melodic bass headliner closing a Tampa Sunday is a step outside that lane. Kasbo, the Swedish producer who has released on ODESZA’s Foreign Family Collective, plays the same day, which makes Sunday the most melodic day on paper.
From Virginia Key to the Mississippi
We Belong Here started in Miami in 2021 at Virginia Key Beach Park and reached New York in October 2024. This year it ran two New York weekends, Brooklyn Army Terminal from June 19 to 21 and Wollman Rink in Central Park from October 2 to 4. Florida grew too: Tampa Bay and West Palm Beach both debuted in December 2025, with Axwell and Kaskade at Meyer Amphitheater on December 27 and 28.
New Orleans comes before Tampa. We Belong Here New Orleans debuts November 13 to 15 at Goldring Woldenberg Riverfront Park with ODESZA (DJ set), Carl Cox, Steve Angello and Sammy Virji. Miami returns to Virginia Key from February 26 to 28, 2027, with its lineup still to come. The brand says ticket sales help fund music education for K-12 students near its events.
Final thoughts
A two-day debut that sold out three months early has turned into three days, a bigger site and three headliners from different corners of dance music. Sunday with ILLENIUM shows how far We Belong Here is now willing to stretch its sound.
Presale for single-day, two-day combo and all-weekend tickets opens Thursday, October 15, at 12 p.m. ET for fans who sign up at webelonghere.world/tampabay. Remaining tickets go on sale to the public Monday, October 19, at 12 p.m. ET. Tiers run from General to Gold and a premium upgrade, with private tables for groups and payment plans available at checkout.
