More acts are announced for city festival
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JakeBugg,TomGrennan,TheBlinders, Catherine McGrath, Blaenavon and Dylan Cartlidge have been confirmed as the first wave of heavyweight acts that are set to perform next year’s Hit the North Festival in Newcastle.
Building on the success of the last two years, the North East’s largest inner city livemusiceventisbackonceagaininwhat hasbeenbilledbypromotersasitsmostdiverse and ambitious line-up to date.
Renowned as being the North East’s premiergo-toinner-cityfestivalforallfans of live music, the event will span the early Maybankholidaynextyear,withthemain event taking place on Sunday, May 5.
As well as major headline artists, Hit the North will showcase a huge range of new acts across all its participating venues: a must for those wishing to check out the stars of tomorrow in one easy sweep.
Taking place across some of the city’s most celebrated music venues and alternative spaces, the festival will see Jake Bugg – one of the UK’s most prolific and celebrated singer-songwriters of recent times – make a welcome return to Tyneside on the Sunday, on the back four critically-acclaimed albums.
The artist’s self-titled debut album spawned hit singles such as Lightning Bolt, Simple As This, and Two Fingers, and the Nottingham-bornstarhaspromised to perform all his greatest hits to date alongside new material from his eagerly-anticipated fifth studio album.