Evasion Festival are entering their eighth year in the luscious grounds of rural France.
There are not many festival sites quite like La Plage de l’Atol. Tucked inside the Grand Parc Miribel Jonage which also happens to be the largest drinking water reserve in the Lyon metropolitan area, the 3.5 hectare site offers 120 metres of white sand beach, a swimmable lake, dense woodland and generous chill-out spaces throughout. It sits just 20 minutes from the city, but feels considerably further away.
That relationship with the land is not just a selling point. It is the reason Evasion takes its responsibilities seriously. The festival operates with a reduced capacity of 5,000 per day, sources 80% of its suppliers and service providers locally, runs a policy moving towards zero flights for artist travel, eliminates single-use plastics, and is working towards connecting entirely to the park’s electrical grid rather than relying on generators. Seasonal vegetarian food, free water access throughout the site and a commitment to upcycled scenography all form part of a broader approach that feels genuinely thought through rather than bolted on.
Now in its eighth edition, the gathering returns on Saturday 27th and Sunday 28th June 2026, and the ethos remains consistent with recent years: go deeper rather than bigger. The programming spans tasteful house and techno across three distinct spaces, each shaped by the crews behind them. The beachside AURA stage sees a redesigned layout for the first time in the festival’s history. The LITUS stage, co-curated with Lyon collective 23:59, retains its quadraphonic sound system and gains a new lighting scenography developed with Néon. And the woodland UNDA stage returns with French visual artist Antoine Tombini’s custom installations, rebuilt this year using elements carried over from the previous edition.
The bill is built around gender balance and stylistic diversity rather than huge names, with a particular emphasis on emerging talent sitting alongside more established figures from the European underground. Slow Life co-founder Laurine brings her vinyl-led, emotionally considered approach to the UNDA stage. Ukrainian selector E.lina also features, alongside the ever-impressive Super Venus, plus a wide cast of artists drawn largely from the French scenes, reflecting Evasion’s ongoing commitment to community over spectacle. Worth flagging too is the exclusive live debut of Binary Digit and Fasme, performing together for the first time at the festival.
New for this edition is the Stella Camp, a considered camping extension located one kilometre from the main site and limited to 500 participants. It runs across both nights with its own late-night stage until 4:30am, hot showers, hammocks, a relaxation area at the edge of the woods, and morning activities including yoga and creative workshops. For those travelling from further afield, Lyon is around two hours from Paris by TGV, and Marseille being 1h40 away by train the Stella Camp now makes the whole weekend considerably easier to plan around.
Across several editions now, Evasion has been quietly building something with a clear sense of what it is and why. This edition looks like more of the same, in the best possible way.
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