Over 100 new artists to get you even more excited for We Out Here 2024 🎉

New artists include the community hip-hop collective The Silhouettes Project and the legendary voice of the scene, Bahamadia. Nigerian highlife band The Cavemen,  iconic jazz singer Norma Winstone and Rio Samba star Rogê also add to the live programme, joining headliners André 3000, Sampha, Kae Tempest, Dee Dee Bridgewater, Louie Vega and CASISDEAD.

We Out Here platforms the best in live music alongside club and dance music culture, and joining previously announced Joy Orbison, Moodymann, Shanti Celeste, Mala and Calibre is legendary French electronic producer and DJ Laurent Garnier, whilst Andres, Waajeed and Flo Real join Moodymann’s Tribute to Amp Fiddler and Boo Williams and Rahaan join Tama Sumo & Lakuti’s takeover. Nick the Record and John Gomez are set to celebrate 10 years of their Tangent parties and Patrick Forge, Charlie Dark and Donna Leake will be joining the Love Dancin’ programme alongside Colleen ‘Cosmo’ Murphy, Mr Scruff and festival founder Gilles Peterson.

Lemon Lounge, the South London community and custom sound system, will be bringing their much-loved intimate tent to the fields once again, with programme highlights including Alexander Nut, Chunky, K-Lone, SNO and Source Direct. In celebration of significant milestones, First Word Records have united a family lineup of Allysha Joy, Konny Kon (Children of Zeus) and Werkha to celebrate 20 years. Tru Thoughts and Wah Wah 45s will be celebrating 25 years, with guests including Tara Lily, Alice Russell, Robert Luis and Jamie Finlay.

Talent development organisation Tomorrow’s Warriors, who have supported some of the biggest stars in the UK Jazz scene today – Ezra Collective, Nubya Garcia, Moses Boyd (all previous WOH performers) – this year take over the Big Top stage, now renamed the Tomorrow’s Warriors Big Top. They’ve brought together some of the brightest talents of their community – the place to catch We Out Here’s future headliners.

And a new addition for this year’s show, we’ve joined forces with our festival partner Worldwide FM to present a ‘celebration of community radio’, uniting 8 Radio Stations from around the world. Alongside WWFM (Global), Foundation FM (London), Voices Radio (London), Clyde Built (Glasgow), Reform Radio (Manchester), Noods Radio (Bristol), Mondo Radio (Sheffield), Radio AlHara (Palestine) and 1BTN (Brighton) come together for a series of radio transmissions on-site, as well as weekly takeovers on Worldwide FM throughout the summer.

All this – and we’re not done yet! As the countdown to August continues, we’ll have a handful more stages and artist to share with you all.