Festival News: The Great Escape announces further 150 artists
The Great Escape Festival reveals the next huge wave of artists set to play at this year’s Brighton festival, including some of the most promising new acts from across the world. Incorporating a wide breadth of genres including pop, electronic, punk, soul, rap, Americana and R&B, the newly announced lineup includes Kenya Grace, HiTech, Ife Ogunjobi, Nieve Ella, Cykada, Love Remain (DJ), Swimming Paul, Modern Biology and many more. Full weekend tickets for The Great Escape festival start from £99.59 and are on sale here.
Synonymous with new music discovery and acting as a springboard for rising artists, The Great Escape is the festival for new music. Playing host to over 450 up-and-coming artists and hotly tipped talent across 35+ walkable venues, alongside the music industry-led The Great Escape conference, the festival will kick off the 2024 season from 15-18 May 2024 in Brighton, England.
Kenya Grace, the emerging singer-songwriter known for her soulful vocals and introspective lyrics that explore themes of love, resilience, and self-discovery joins the line-up. Comprised of rapper-producers King Milo, Milf Melly, and 47Chops, HiTech who take classic elements of electro, techno and Chicago house and fuse them with distorted vocals will also be hitting the coast. Further additions include Ezra Collective’s trumpeter Ife Ogunjobi who will bring his vibrant and dynamic Nigerian heritage-inspired jazz and hip-hop to The Great Escape, collective Cykada with their unique and exciting combination of electronic and jazz, viral artist Modern Biology who explores the realms of bio-electricity, Indian raga, and analogue synthesis, providing innovative beats and rhythms through post-punk New York rising stars Slow Fiction.
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