Indian Spirit Festival (Eldena, Germany) 2027

Indian Spirit returns to Eldena from 25 to 30 August 2027, running six days of psytrance in the flat countryside of Mecklenburg-Vorpommern in northern Germany. The organisers bill it as the largest psytrance festival in the country, and the viewing figures on their own aftermovies support that: the 2024 film has passed 1.1 million views and the 2022 edition more than 600,000.

The format is built around a main floor and smaller stages, with camping as the default and a special camping option for anyone wanting more space or facilities. The programme runs continuously across the six days, with a newcomer slot giving unknown artists a route onto the bill and a festival app carrying the timetable and site map. The slogan the organisers use, love, dance and trance, is a fair description of the audience as well as the music.

Tickets are sold through MyTicket and the festival is run by the team behind Airbeat One, which gives it a production standard higher than most psytrance events of this size. Eldena sits near Ludwigslust, around 90 minutes from Hamburg and two hours from Berlin by road, with regional rail serving the area. The 2027 line up had not been published at the time of writing. For psytrance in Germany, it is the biggest music festival of its kind.