Randall’s Island is getting taken over again. Experts Only Festival returns to New York City on September 19 and 20, 2026, with John Summit headlining both nights of what’s already shaping up to be the biggest dance music weekend the city has seen in years. Tickets are on sale now at expertsonlyfest.com.
The 2025 debut drew more than 50,000 fans and sold out fast, earning praise for its production quality and fan-first approach. That inaugural edition featured Summit alongside Kaskade b2b Cassian, Green Velvet b2b Layton Giordani, Pete Tong, LP Giobbi, Kasablanca, DJ Seinfeld, and Totally Enormous Extinct Dinosaurs, setting a standard that the 2026 edition is clearly built to surpass. Multiple stages, elevated production, and expanded fan experiences are all confirmed.
The 2026 lineup already runs deep. GRiZ, Prospa, SUBJOHNICS, LYNY, Korolova, Taiki Nulight, Devault, Dreya V, OMRI., Partiboi69, Jackie Hollander, Dansyn, Airrica, Gabss, MADI, Soraya, Mishell, and Rohaan are all confirmed, with more names still to come. Summit arrives at the festival fresh off his new album CTRL ESCAPE, out April 15 via Experts Only and Darkroom Records, and the timing couldn’t be sharper.
Produced in partnership with Medium Rare, Relentless Beats, and EMW, Experts Only has quickly established itself as the premier large-scale dance event in New York. For a city that went without a major dance weekender on Randall’s Island for years, the return has been nothing short of a reclamation. Two nights, one island, no weak links on the bill.