Official Family Festival 2026 poster — 15th anniversary, August 1-2, Parc des Expositions, Montpellier

The 15th anniversary poster · © Family Festival

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The official 2025 edition aftermovie · © Family Piknik Festival

Credits

Filming & editing: ClubbingVision · Aerial footage / drone: NicoPeak

Tracklisting

1. Propellar · Coming Out Alive (Family Piknik Music)
2. Nihil Young · Dark Future (Family Piknik Music)
3. Harmonik Kontrol · Tazo Live Version 2024 (Awesome Soundwave)

Family Piknik, fifteen years and a new milestone

Everyone in Montpellier knows Family Piknik. Born as an open-air electronic picnic in the early 2010s, it has grown edition after edition into the region's summer house and techno gathering. For its 15th anniversary, it's going big: two full days at the Parc des Expositions, from noon to 2 AM, over 60 artists, plus an opening concert on Friday, July 31 with HVOB performing live. The spirit hasn't changed. Family-friendly, festive, open-air, and serious about its bookings.

Three stages, three worlds

The Elrow stage brings the Spanish-style party: Armand van Helden, an absolute legend of New York house, plays Saturday alongside Kevin de Vries. Space 92 completes the bill, with his mainstage-ready techno and "The Door", a track that traveled the world. On Sunday, Blond:ish and Korolova take over, with Venga, one of the new female talents in French tech house, already noticed by Fisher, DJ Snake and James Hype, and Montpellier local Teus.

The Hard Stage by Organik is where it hits. Saturday lines up Creeds, Todiefor, Hysta and 25emeheure, four names carrying the new French hard wave. Trym and Alignment on Sunday, with Ava Mind building the pressure. If you read us regularly, you already know that's probably where we'll spend most of our time.

And the Nomad Stage by AfterSeason plays the elegant card: Etienne de Crécy, a French Touch monument, a Roman Flügel b2b Erol Alkan we wouldn't have dared to dream up, then Chus & Ceballos, Oliver Huntemann and local talent Cebb on Sunday.

Armand van Helden — Elrow stage, Family Festival 2026
Etienne de Crécy — Nomad Stage, Family Festival 2026

Armand van Helden & Etienne de Crécy · © Family Festival

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Our picks

Armand van Helden Elrow · Saturday, August 1 "My My My", "U Don't Know Me", thirty years of New York house. A legend in Montpellier.
Etienne de Crécy Nomad Stage · Saturday, August 1 Super Discount, the French Touch in person. The kind of set that crosses generations.
Space 92 Elrow · Saturday, August 1 "The Door" spent months on top of the techno charts. French techno that travels the world, open-air in the South of France.
Creeds Hard Stage · Saturday, August 1 "Push Up" put hard groove in everyone's ears. At a festival, it climbs another notch.
Trym Hard Stage · Sunday, August 2 The Frenchman shaking kicks from Possession to Europe's biggest festivals.
Roman Flügel b2b Erol Alkan Nomad Stage · Saturday, August 1 Two aesthetes in the same booth. The most intriguing b2b of the weekend.

We'll be there

After Sónar in June, we're carrying the summer on home ground. The 15th anniversary edition of Family Piknik is the kind we don't want to miss: enough headliners to draw the whole region, enough local talent to remember where the festival comes from. See you August 1-2 at the Parc des Expositions. We'll tell you everything.

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