ACC students, past and present, will be heading down to Lowestoft’s South Beach on the 17th & 18th June to perform at First Light festival.
A celebration of the Summer Solstice, First Light is the UK’s only free beach festival which caters for the whole family.
Organised by First Light Festival Community Interest Company (CIC), a not-for-profit organisation based in Lowestoft, festival goers will enjoy a weekend of music, comedy, performance, science, wellbeing and experiences.
And this year, ACC is incredibly excited to announce that former and current students will be taking over the New Dawn stage and East Point Pavilion
“Shining a spotlight on new talent is one of First Light’s main missions, so we are delighted to once again be working with ACC to platform some of their best emerging music across the festival weekend. Whether performing on our dedicated New Dawn beach stage, playing as part of our East Point Pavilion youth music takeover or headlining our main Sunlight Stage, we hope that the festival will become an important stepping stone for many of our region’s most exciting new acts.”
Genevieve Christie, CEO of First Light Festival CIC
The New Dawn Stage will be headlined by current Artist Development student, $ebbuku, a relentless rapper, producer and stereo warrior whose explosive self-taught production and electric live performances blew our panel away.
Ian Johnson, ACC’s Music Industry Liaison and also Cetera Artist Development Manager, has been heavily involved in curating the lineup for this year’s First Light festival. He says:
‘It’s great to be at First Light again this year and to partner again with our friends at BBC Introducing. We have act’s playing across all the stages including a full day of performers at East Point Pavillion, acts playing the Sunrise stage including headliner $ebukku and we even have students appearing on the Main Stage.
Alongside performers we have students working as part of the wider crew across the stages too. The festival has fast become a highlight of our festival season!’
– Ian Johnson
Take a look below to see which of our ACC performers will be joining $ebbuku across the festival weekend.
Do you fancy performing at First Light as well as a range of other huge UK festivals? Well, you can with ACC. Make sure to apply for one of our music courses ahead of September!