Introducing EMERGE: Belfast's all new dance festival

Music fans are going to go mad for this! 🙌

Author: Emma DicksonPublished 22nd Mar 2022
Last updated 22nd Mar 2022

This summer, a brand new music festival is hitting Belfast - EMERGE is a two-day multistage outdoor event, brought to you by the teams behind Shine & Belsonic

With cutting edge 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 it’s kind in Ireland, with capacity for 20,000 attendees per day.

What can you expect at EMERGE?

Over 40 acts will appear across three stages, over the two days at Boucher Road Playing Fields on 27th & 28th August.

Bespoke sound & lighting/AV installations will feature across all stages, with an emphasis on a world class audience experience.

Who will headline EMERGE 2022?

For their first year, the team have gone BIG! Eric Prydz, Disclosure, Patrick Topping & Peggy Gou will take to the festival stage this summer.

The line-up of globally recognised electronic acts, included Kettama, Mall Grab, Michael Bibi, DJ Seinfeld, Dusky, Special Request, Fjaak, Rebekah and many more.

Co-Promoter and Director Alan Simms commented:

“Belfast is one of the most fertile and dynamic scenes of its kind in the UK or Ireland,” says Co-Promoter and Director Alan Simms.

“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. We’ve promoted many large scale outdoor electronic events in recent years but always wanted to do a huge multistage 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 EMERGE Music Festival, most of whom we’ve been working with since their very first club shows in the country.”

How to book tickets to EMERGE

You can sign-up for discounted early bird/pre-sale ticket access via emergebelfast.com

Early bird/pre-sale tickets go live from 12pm noon on Friday 25th March,

General sale is available from Tuesday 29th March at 9am via ticketmaster.ie, with day tickets, weekend tickets and weekend ticket deposit plans available.

Visit emergebelfast.com for more info

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