Forbidden Kingdom to Expand to Six Stages in 2027

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Forbidden Kingdom will also relocate from the Central Florida Fairgrounds to Tinker Field, where EDC Orlando takes place each year.

Bass heads fortunate enough to attend Forbidden Kingdom this past weekend were the first to receive exciting news about the 2027 event. Leaving the festival’s longtime home at the Central Florida Fairgrounds, next year’s edition will take place at Tinker Field in Orlando on April 24-25 — and it’s expanding from four stages to six.

“You have been summoned to the new kingdom,” reads a flyer distributed on the event site. “Guided by the forces of Bassrush, venture into the newly conquered Tinker Field: home to new medieval realms and untamed energy. As the bass grows louder, the kingdom welcomes more magic, more stages, and more sonic sorcerers than ever before.”

Below that, the flyer promises that the Forbidden Kingdom 2026 lineup will boast more than 150 artists. For the sake of comparison, the 2026 bill included over 100 acts. No headliners have been announced at the time of writing; organizers started sharing lineup details for this year’s event in November and finalized it by the end of March.

Those familiar with other Insomniac gatherings will recognize the name Tinker Field. It has played host to EDC Orlando ever since the festival debuted as an offshoot of the promoter giant’s Electric Daisy Carnival IP back in 2011.

Forbidden Kingdom’s first installment took place in 2019, then at Sunset Cove Amphitheatre in Boca Raton, Florida. It partnered with Insomniac’s bass music-focused Bassrush brand in 2020 and moved to the Central Florida Fairgrounds in 2021.

Tickets have yet to go on sale for the 2027 edition of the festival. Sign up to receive updates as soon as they’re announced on the Forbidden Kingdom website.