A new two-day musical festival is set to bring header liners like Eric Prydz and Patrick Topping to Belfast this summer.
EMERGE Music Festival is a brand new annual multi-stage outdoor event brought to you by the teams behind the long-running Belfast club brand Shine and Belsonic festival.
The event will take place at the Boucher Road Playing Fields, Belfast on August 27 and 28, 2022.
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It will take place for the first time this August Bank Holiday in Belfast, combining the cutting edge of world-class international electronic artists, and the wealth of fantastic new talent consistently coming out of the burgeoning Irish market.
Emerge will be the largest event of its kind in Ireland with a capacity of 20,000 attendees per day.
In its first year, more than 40 acts will appear across three stages over the two days.
Bespoke Sound and Lighting / AV installations will feature across all stages, with an emphasis on a world-class audience experience.
Headliners Eric Prydz, Disclosure, Peggy Gou and Patrick Topping are regularly top-billed at music festivals across the globe and return to Belfast alongside a huge lineup of globally recognised electronic acts including Kettama, Mall Grab, Michael Bibi, DJ Seinfeld, Dusky, Special Request, FJAAK, Rebeckah and many others.
Co-Promoter and Director Alan Simms said: "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 lineup of EMERGE Music Festival, most of whom we’ve been working with since their very first club shows in the country."
EMERGE Music Festival goes on general sale on Tuesday March 29 at 9am from Ticketmaster.ie with day tickets, weekend tickets and weekend ticket deposit plans available.
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