Glastonbury organisers have announced the eight artists who have made it to the final of this year’s Emerging Talent Competition.
The competition gives up and coming artists the opportunity to win a slot on one of Glasto’s main stages. Thousands of entries were submitted at the start of February, from which a longlist of 90 artists was compiled by a panel of music writers. This has now been reduced to just these final eight by judges including Michael and Emily Eavis.
Finalists
- Amahla
- Crae Wolf
- English Teacher
- Lewis McLaughlin
- Nia Wyn
- Smoothboi Ezra
- SOFY
- Zola Courtney
You can check out all of the finalists in the official SoundCloud playlist, shown below. The final will be invite-only and is set for Saturday 30th April. The winner will receive a £5,000 Talent Development Prize from the PRS Foundation while two runners up will receive a £2,5000 Talent Development Prize.
All tickets for Glastonbury 2022 have now been sold. Resales of returned tickets were held towards the end of March which both sold out in a matter of minutes.
Earlier in March, Glastonbury organisers revealed the official line-up poster for this summer’s festival. Emily Eavis said: “We are very happy to bring you the first shortlist of artists from the main stages for Glastonbury Festival 2022 – and if you can believe it there’s even more to come!”
Long-rumoured headliners Paul McCartney and Kendrick Lamar have had their slot confirmed. Also included in around 90 artists revealed today are Supergrass and Noel Gallagher’s High Flying Birds, who were both strongly rumoured, while Lorde and Sigrid are among the recent Glasto acts returning for 2022.
Paul McCartney will be 80 by the time Glastonbury comes around, which would make him the oldest ever Pyramid Stage headliner. He’s expected to perform the day after Billie Eilish headlines. Aged 20 at the time, she’ll be the youngest ever Pyramid headliner.
Glastonbury organiser Emily Eavis previously confirmed on Twitter that the initial line-up poster will be published in March, with area line-ups to follow – before the complete line-up with timings is released in June, just before the festival.
Glastonbury 2022 will take place from Wednesday 22nd to Sunday 26th June at Worthy Farm near Pilton, Somerset. Tickets sold out ahead of the cancelled 2020 festival, though a resale of cancelled tickets will take place before the event.
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