Love & Light Festival — festival guide
Ostrich Ranch, Philadelphia, South Africa19–19 Dec 2026 · 1 day61 days to go
At a glance
- Dates
- 19–19 Dec 2026 (1 day)
- Location
- Ostrich Ranch, Philadelphia, South Africa
- Sound
- psytrance · techno · electronic
- Tickets
- €54 – €69 · 2 tiers tracked
- Venue type
- Festival site
- Best nearby base
- Cape Town · 0 km · about 0 min
- On-site camping
- Not listed
The story
The Love & Light Festival is scheduled for December 19-20, 2026, at The Ostrich, located on Van Schoorsdrif Rd in Philadelphia, Cape Town. This event is organized by Music People and is restricted to attendees aged 18 and over. The festival emphasizes attendee safety, including provisions for weather conditions and personal property security.
Love & Light Festival is a psytrance, techno, electronic festival at Ostrich Ranch in Philadelphia, South Africa. The December 2026 edition runs 19–19 Dec 2026.
Expect stages split between psytrance, techno and electronic.
Everything happens at Ostrich Ranch, in Philadelphia. Cape Town · 0 km · about 0 min is the organiser's practical nearby base for accommodation and transfers to the festival site.
Love & Light Festival keeps the same calendar slot each year: December 2026 for this edition, opening on a Saturday and closing on a Saturday. It is a winter date, so indoor stages and a warm place to sleep matter more than they would in July — and off-season travel is often cheaper. That slot matters for the budget — flights and rooms in Philadelphia are priced for the festival weekend, not the week around it, so shifting your arrival by a day often saves more than any ticket tier does.
- Venue: The Ostrich Ranch
- Age requirement: 18+ with valid ID
- Ample parking available
- Ride sharing recommended
- Organized by Music People
Venue, camping & access
- Venue type
- Festival site
- Best nearby base
- Cape Town · 0 km · about 0 min
- Camping
- No on-site camping is listed by the organiser.
- Getting to the gates
- Recommended to use ride sharing apps (e.g. Uber) or taxis to get to and from the festival.
What the trip costs from Paris
Ticket from
€54
Return transport
€756
air · 11h 47m each way
Place to stay
€60
Hostel / camping · 1 night
Total door to door
€870
Door to door from Paris, a trip to Love & Light Festival works out at roughly €870 per person on the cheapest combination we track — a higher-budget weekend, mostly because of the travel leg.
The ticket is only 6% of that: the rest is getting there and sleeping somewhere, which is exactly the part most ticket sites leave out.
Cheapest travel we price is air · 11h 47m each way, at €756 return.
See every ticket tier and travel option →Planning the trip, step by step
- 1Book the ticket first: tiers at Love & Light Festival are sold in waves and the cheapest wave is gone long before the line-up is complete.
- 2Then price the travel from Paris — Cinderella compares train, bus, car and flight for the same dates, and the cheapest option is not always the obvious one.
- 3Reserve 2 nights rather than 1: the last night of a festival almost always ends after the last train home.
- 4Follow Love & Light Festival on Cinderella to be emailed when a ticket price drops or a new tier opens.
Full line-up
Ordered as the poster reads it — headliners first, then most booked to least. Each name opens that artist's festival dates.
The organiser hasn't published the line-up for Love & Light Festival yet. It appears here — with a page for every artist — as soon as names are confirmed.
Past editions
Dates are the event's recurring calendar slot, so treat them as approximate — the organiser keeps the official archive.
2025
19–19 Dec 2025 (approx.)
2024
19–19 Dec 2024 (approx.)
2023
19–19 Dec 2023 (approx.)
Travel tips from Paris
- The site itself is Ostrich Ranch, in Philadelphia.
- Recommended to use ride sharing apps (e.g. Uber) or taxis to get to and from the festival.
- Book a bed in Cape Town early — rooms around a festival sell out before the last ticket tier does.
- air11h 47m · €756