Unique Manchester music conference & festival Beyond The Music returns this October!

Unique global co-operative music conference & festival Beyond The Music has announced Aitch as a keynote speaker as well as 70 new performing artists for 2024.

9-12 OCTOBER 2024 - MANCHESTER CITY CENTRE

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Beyond The Music has announced 70 new artists for its 2024 music lineup. Partnering with brand new curators for its second year, including SXSW, Manchester Pride, BBC Introducing and Secret Garden Party, Beyond The Music will welcome over 200 artists to perform for its 3 day takeover of Manchester’s Northern Quarter and Aviva Studios from 9th - 12th October 2024. Tickets for the second edition of Beyond The Music are available here.

Led by its NO ARTISTS. NO MUSIC ethos, the music lineup for Beyond The Music 2024 strives to showcase a genre-spanning range of grassroots artists on a global platform. Its by-night music programme will follow upon 3 days of vital music industry conversation between some of the most important voices in music, tech and content at Aviva Studios; offering brand new artists from Manchester and beyond the chance to perform in front of some of the industry’s most powerful players.

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Earlier this year, the festival issued a call out for new artists to perform at Beyond The Music 2024. As a result, 70 brand new artists have been added to this year’s festival, with 25% of the lineup dedicated to local North West-based artists, including [ K S R ], Yasmin Coe, poor effort., Moreish Idols, Cody Frost and more.

Speaking about the lineup for Beyond The Music 2024, festival founder Oli Wilson said: “Our festival is all about supporting the new wave of music talent. We haven't booked headliners, we've selected this lineup with an amazing range of curators and also from several thousand new artists that applied to play this year.

From going through that process and booking the festival it seems like there is a revolution pending in music and we're really proud to be able to give a platform to this new generation of musicians. The talent isn’t just in one genre, it’s in every genre, and we’re representing that diverse mix of music and people in the festival.”