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New youth music festival to launch this month
By CMU Editorial | Published on Monday 1 June 2009
A new ‘urban youth festival’, which aims to help develop a new generation of east London talent in the run up to the London Olympics, will launch later this month.
Young London: Into Music will consist of five separate events, set to take place in the five so called ‘Olympic host boroughs’ (that’s Greenwich, Hackney, Newham, Tower Hamlets and Waltham Forest) between 26 Jun and 2 Aug.
Each event will feature performances from urban names such as Bashy, Ms Dynamite, Roachford and Akala, as well as showcasing lesser known rising stars and providing young aspiring artists, many of whom are socially excluded or lacking in employment and education, with professional mentoring, and time with established artists.
The project is a part of CREATE09, a wider cultural festival taking place in the aforementioned Olympic host Boroughs from 22 Jun to 2 Aug in partnership with Biggafish, Continental Drifts, Music Matrix, Rising Tide, and Urban Development.
