Belfast’s AVA is back for 2023, championing homegrown, local talent as well as inviting internationally celebrated artists to its blueprint home each year.
Fresh off the back of a sell-out London edition, AVA can now reveal another heavy set of acts on board for 2023, with Peggy Gou, Ben UFO, Blawan, Or:la B2B Sally C, Funk Tribu, Spray, Optmst, Moregain and Jenna Daley, who will join the already massive line-up.
AVA takes place across 2-3rd June at the iconic Titanic Quarter Slipways location.
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Making a long-awaited AVA debut is Peggy Gou - a producer, selector and creator known for fusing through entrancing and off-kilter sonics within her creations.
Hessle Audio co-founder Ben UFO also joins who has been championing mind-bending and genre-defying sounds for almost two decades.
Two Northern Irish powerhouses and long-term AVA family Or:la and Sally C play b2b; a special homecoming for the two friends that will be full of hi-energy chunkers.
All this is on top of the already mega line-up that features some of the globes most esteemed artists and producers, with Kettama, Overmono, Eliza Rose, Hèctor Oaks, SPFDJ, Job Jobse, KI/KI and more all repping for the electronic sounds - trance, techno, house, breaks, and everything in between.
AVA will also see live performances from huge rap acts - Central Cee and Slowthai, whilst Kojaque and EMBY show up for the Irish hip-hop contingent.
Always creating opportunities for those at the forefront of the current Irish movement, local talent established and emerging always plays a key part in the programme, and this year is no different.
An essential event for culture across the North & South of Ireland plus mainland UK, AVA is the first large-scale multi-stage event to represent a modern Belfast, promoting the growing community and beyond.
AVA has created an inclusive, vibrant, and celebrated space for talent to be nurtured from their DJ competitions to work programmes.
Tickets are available now from avafestival.com. Weekend tickets are available from £95 + booking fee
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