Tuesday 9 April 2024 – Today, 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.

GRIME / RAP / HIP-HOP
 
Cam Thomas | ESSA | Frozemode | HiTech | Immersion | Isaiah Hull | James Massiah | Jianbo | Lewis Fitzgerald | Louis Culture & Pablo | Oneda | Prido | Toya Delazy | Yamê | Yurufuwa Gang

This year, The Great Escape will delight enthusiasts of grime, rap, and hip-hop with an array of the latest up-and-coming artists from these genres. Emerging hip-hop artist Cam Thomas who fuses storytelling rap and modern hip-hop, soulful rap artist ESSA, alternative rap trio Frozemode, sound and art duo Immersion drawing from techno, ambient and Krautrock genres, boundary-pushing spoken-word poet and producer Isiah Hull, DJ, producer and poet blending dub dancehall, acid house and grime James Massiah, Chinese/Vietnamese-British rapper, Jianbo who pairs mid-noughties inspired grime flow with hip-hop, alternative hip-hop artist Lewis Fitzgerald, producer and DJ Louis Culture & Pablo who explore black British music of house, UK garage, and hip-hop , powerful Manchester MC OneDa, contemporary singer songwriter and rapper of Zambian heritage Prido, who is influenced by hip hop, grime and afrobeats, South African singer Toya Delazy, French-Cameroonian rapper, singer and songwriter Yamê and new Japanese rap trendsetters Yurufuwa Gang.
 

JAZZ / R&B / SOUL
 
Allysha Joy | Äyanna | Blue Lab Beats | Cykada | Divorce from New York | Eli | Ella Knight | Faker Villain | Fari | Gareth Donkin | Gigi Williams | Ife Ogunjobi | Jordan Hawkins | Lusaint | Peonie | Romarna Campbell | Shadeemus | UNA MIA | Yiigaa
 
The Great Escape also amps up its jazz, R&B and soul offering with the new line-up announcement featuring an eclectic blend of artists, including powerful lyricist Allysha Joy, multi-talented singer songwriter Ayanna, boom-bap grooves and jazz-funk hooks of Blue Lab Beats, electronic act Divorce from New York, R&B singer Eli, jazz-fusion bossa-nova and soul artist Ella Knight, improvised jazz act Faker Villain, engaging R&B and Neo Soul performer Fari, one-man-band layering multiple instruments and synths Gareth Donkin, nu-jazz musician Gigi Williams who fuses soul and folk with guitar-led instruments, hypnotic multi-instrumentalist Jordan Hawkins, melodic soulist Luisant, talented theatre singer Peonie, Romarna Campbell a drummer, composer, and producer, psychedelic space soul band with Jamaican and Nigerian roots Shadeemus, intoxicating alt-R&B songwriter UNA MIA and singer songwriter Yiigaa who blends old R&B styles with a unique present spin.