Halte Festival Returns in Montreal: Reimagined and Rooted

Halte rewires Montreal’s industrial past into a fresh beat for the city’s alt scene. After a quietly confident pilot in 2024, the open-air festival returns May 30 to June 1, 2025—reimagined, bolder, and with its feet planted firmly in the city’s industrial past and sonic future.

Halte is more than a music event—it’s a collaborative platform where sound systems meet steel structures, and electronic music resonates through architectural memory. Hosted at the Bassin Peel, a reworked industrial site just steps from downtown, Halte positions itself in the lineage of European benchmarks like HORST and XRDS—while carving a voice distinctly Montréal.

The festival’s mission? Celebrate electronic music not just as entertainment, but as a force for connection and transformation. Its programming bridges local and international artists, experimental and dancefloor sounds, all while weaving in design, visual art, and urban history. You’re not just hearing music here—you’re stepping into a living installation, shaped by the people and places that built it.

At the core of Halte’s ethos is collaboration. Through partnerships with local art collectives and cultural organizations, the festival is co-created in every sense: from the visual identity to the lineup, from the physical structures to the promotional narrative. Every touchpoint reflects the soul of the city and the communities that keep it moving.

Halte is about listening. Deeply. To what’s happening in music, in space, and between people.

Stop. Listen. Absorb.