Bass Coast lineups drop
Bass Coast revealed a huge, 142‑artist bill for its June 10–13 festival in Merritt, BC — a major draw if you follow bass, genre‑blending electronic and live beat music. ( ). The roster mixes live-heavy acts and beatmakers — Opiuo, DJ Minx, Daphni, Kahn, Skratch Bastid and Mat the Alien among them — which signals a festival built for discovery as much as big names. ( ).
What makes this lineup matter is that Bass Coast is still programming like a true boutique festival, not a scale-at-all-costs event. The festival is artist-owned, independently run, and still free of corporate sponsorship, which helps explain why the bill leans so hard into selectors, live performers, and left-field bookings instead of chasing only the biggest touring names. (Bass Coast) That also helps explain why the announcement landed as more than a routine lineup drop. Bass Coast is now in its 18th year, has been based in Merritt since 2013, and has built a reputation around music plus large-scale art, camping, workshops, and a crowd that comes for the full environment rather than a single headliner. (Bass Coast, Experience Merritt) The shape of the 2026 poster tells the same story. Alongside names already highlighted in early coverage, the full roster includes acts such as KiNK, whose sets are built live on hardware in real time rather than played back as a standard DJ mix, Ivy Lab on a farewell run, Cinthie, Paul Woolford, Special Request, Visages, Addison Groove, The Funk Hunters, and Bass Coast co-founder The Librarian. (Bass Coast, Concert Addicts, Exclaim!) A few bookings stand out because they signal what kind of weekend this will be. Daphni is the club-focused alias of Caribou’s Dan Snaith, and his appearance comes just after the February release of *Butterfly*; KiNK’s live set is being singled out in coverage as a rare one; and Ivy Lab’s inclusion gives Bass Coast one of the group’s last scheduled appearances together. (Concert Addicts) There is one notable wrinkle around the announcement: official Bass Coast pages list the 2026 festival for July 10–13, 2026, while some music outlets reported the dates as June 10–13. The festival’s own homepage, ticket page, event listing, and the City of Merritt page all point to July 10–13, which strongly suggests the June dates in some coverage were a publication error. (Bass Coast, Bass Coast Tickets, (basscoast.tickit.ca), City of Merritt, Exclaim!) The practical takeaway is that this is not a sold-out-after-the-poster situation yet. Bass Coast says 2026 tickets are on sale now at CA$469 for general admission, with a CA$459 physical cash option through Beat Street Records in Vancouver, and the pass includes camping plus the festival’s workshops, yoga, art, and music programming. (Bass Coast Tickets, (basscoast.tickit.ca))
