Great Escape Festival Announce Second wave of acts
Tuesday 4 March – The Great Escape, the festival for new music, is delighted to announce a brand new partnership with leading music, charts and news outlet Billboard UK, featuring the launch of the inaugural Billboard UK Live stage at the 2025 edition of the Brighton festival. Headlining the showcase is Mercury Prize winning indie-rock four-piece English Teacher, with further exciting artists to be announced.
An array of vital new voices from the worlds of grime, rap and hip-hop will be showcased throughout the festival, with sets from Tay Jordan, a London-based lo-fi artist combining hip-hop with West Coast rap, award-winning poet, songwriter and visual artist Nadeem Din-Gabisi, esteemed spoken-word artist Joshua Idehen and Persian-meets-Western rapper CHAII.
Fans of more soulful sounds will also be treated to sets from the very best emerging acts in jazz and R&B, as rising lyricist Laiconista, Nigerian alternative soul singer Tomi Owó, North London’s psychedelic jazz funk fusion trio Koteri,and Korean groove-maker Jacqui take to stages across the city throughout the festival.
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