Glastonbury Festival has announced the finalists for its Emerging Talent Competition 2025.
Launched back in January, the annual free-to-enter competition offers UK and Ireland-based artists the chance to win a slot on one of the main stages at this summer's festival.
Supported by PRS for Music and PRS Foundation, the competition's winners will also receive a £5,000 Talent Development prize from PRS Foundation to help take their songwriting and performing to the next level. Two runners-up will each be awarded a £2,500 PRS Foundation Talent Development prize.
After a longlist of 90 acts was announced last month, Glastonbury has now confirmed the eight artists who have made it to the final of this year's Emerging Talent Competition.
The finalists are: Air Drawn Dagger, Ari Tsugi, Eli Dayo, Mali Hâf, Nat Oaks, Master Peace, Sarah Meth and Westside Cowboy.
This year’s invite-only final will take place on 26 April. You can listen to a specially curated Glastonbury playlist featuring the eight finalists above.
The winner of the 2024 Emerging Talent Competition was Jamaican-Irish rapper JayaHadADream, who has since seen her work feature across national TV, radio and media, as well as performing at other major festivals including Reading & Leeds and Boomtown.
Speaking to M last year, Jaya reflected: ‘I was already building my confidence, but the Glastonbury win really made me feel unstoppable. If you reach for something, you actually can get it.
'I’m from a working-class background where we had free school meals, so to even go to a festival like Glastonbury was amazing because it’s been on my bucket list for so long. It was all funded as well, so I didn’t need to worry about the finances because the PRS Foundation grant really helped, enabling me to pay my band which is really important. I got to perform a song which features some bars about quitting my day job and making it to Glastonbury, which was a nice full-circle moment.’
Other recent Emerging Talent Competition winners and finalists include N’famady Kouyaté, English Teacher, Flohio, Izzy Bizu and Declan McKenna.
