THE line-up for the new Emerge Festival has been announced ahead of the two-day dance music event that is set to bring tens of thousands of revellers to Belfast this weekend.
Taking place at the Boucher Road playing fields in the south of the city this weekend, it is the creation of the team behind the Shine nightclub and the Belsonic series of gigs.
Headlining Emerge for its inaugural year are Swedish producer and DJ Eric Prydz, who is topping the bill on Saturday, and English house duo Disclosure, who are holding a DJ set to wrap up the festival on Sunday evening.
Other acts set to appear over the bank holiday weekend on the event's three stages include Berlin-based producer Peggy Gou, tech-house DJ Patrick Topping and London's Michael Bibi.
Organisers are predicting up to 20,000 people will attend each day of the festival, and event promoter Alan Simms, who is the director of Shine Productions, said the new festival many years in the planning.
"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."
