MORE than 50 dance and electronic artists are set to play the first ever Emerge festival in Belfast this weekend.
Headline acts Eric Prydz, Disclosure, Peggy Gou and Patrick Topping will be appearing over the course of the new two day event at Boucher Playing Fields tomorrow and Sunday, alongside a huge line-up of electronic artists including Kettama, Mall Grab, Michael Bibi, DJ Seinfeld, Dusky, Special Request, Fjaak and Rebekah
Planned as an annual event, Emerge is a two day multi-stage outdoor festival presented by the teams behind Shine and the Belsonic festival which aims to "combine the cutting edge of world class international electronic artists and the wealth of fantastic new talent consistently coming out of the burgeoning Irish market".
The promoters claim that Emerge will be the largest event of its kind in Ireland, with capacity for 20,000 attendees per day. 'Bespoke' sound and lighting and AV installations will feature across all stages, "with an emphasis on a world class audience experience".
Emerge co-promoter and director Alan Simms comments: "The electronic music scene is one that has grown steadily in Belfast over the 30-odd years that I've been promoting in the city with my Shine brand, and it's grown exponentially over the last few years.
"Belfast is one of the most fertile and dynamic scenes of its kind in the UK or Ireland. We've promoted many large scale outdoor electronic events in recent years but always wanted to do a huge multi stage event of this kind.
"Feedback from our audience suggested that a huge appetite exists for a unique production of this kind in Northern Ireland. We're lucky to have some of the world's biggest names in dance music on our inaugural line-up of the Emerge music festival, most of whom we've been working with since their very first club shows in the country."
EMERGE AT A GLANCE
Saturday August 27
Eric Prydz, Peggy Gou, Michael Bibi, Fjaak, Special Request, Christoph, Dense & Pika, Cici, Perel, Mark Blair, Nancy Live, Disfreq, Lucid, Schmutz, Sarah Mooney, Kick
Sunday August 28
Disclosure (DJ set), Patrick Topping, Mall Grab, Kettama, DJ Seinfeld, Dusky, Rebekah, BLK, Shampain, Miley Serious, Yasmin Gardezi, Riot Code, Nikki O, Caoimhe, Reboot DJs, Jenna Daley, Fionn Curran
:: Emerge music festival is on-sale now via Ticketmaster.ie with day tickets, weekend tickets and VIP tickets/upgrades available.
