ESNS (Eurosonic Noorderslag) Announces First Artists For 2026 Festival

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The European euphony showcase volition instrumentality to Groningen, Netherlands successful the caller year.

Elias Ronnenfelt performs astatine ESNS 2025.

ESNS (Eurosonic Noorderslag), an yearly caller euphony showcase for European acts, has announced its archetypal question of artists for 2026.

Next year’s festival, which volition instrumentality spot betwixt 14-17 Jan. successful Groningen, Netherlands, volition people its 40th day edition. On Tuesday (Sept. 9), organisers shared additions to the line-up, including British-Indonesian creator Nadia Kadek, French songwriter and composer Léonie Pernet and Coca Puma, a jazz experimentalist from Italy.

Elsewhere, determination volition beryllium appearances from Latvian duo ZeMe, Scottish psyche vocalist Becky Sikasa, Serbian alt-pop set Turbo Trans Turisti and galore more. View the measure here.

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In a property release, Robert Meijerink, Head of Programme and Booker astatine ESNS, said: “These artists amusement the unthinkable creativity coming from each implicit Europe, from intimate songwriting to cutting-edge electronics and almighty unrecorded bands. They seizure the vigor and innovation that marque ESNS a unsocial gathering spot for euphony lovers and manufacture professionals.”

Delegate passes are present each disposable via the authoritative ESNS website. Three-day passes commencement astatine €470 ($552.36), portion wide festival tickets are yet to beryllium released.

Founded successful 1986, ESNS is simply a non-profit organisation focused connected the promotion of emerging caller European music. As portion of its European Talent Exchange program, ESNS annually invites festival bookers and promoters from crossed the continent to commencement gathering their lineups for the pursuing summer.

Since its inception successful 2003, the inaugural has helped much than 2300 artists to gain large festival bookings crossed the continent. Previous iterations of the four-day lawsuit person presented aboriginal shows from planetary stars specified arsenic Fontaines D.C., CMAT and Mercury Prize 2024 winners English Teacher.

The league broadside of ESNS, meanwhile, attracts thousands of euphony manufacture professionals and representatives from implicit 400 planetary festivals. It plays big to implicit sheet discussions, interviews, keynotes and more, covering topics focusing mostly connected sustainability and euphony manufacture development.

The 2025 iteration of ESNS saw performances from the likes of Alessi Rose, who supported Dua Lipa connected circuit this summer, positive caller endowment Antony Szmierek, Jordan Adetunji, Jacob Alon, viral prima Joalin and more.