Girls to the Front: open mic for femme voices
New Gen Festival is teaming up with Rebels and Pilgrims to present an open mic event in Southall prioritising femme voices, with guest performances from: Want to perform? Send a…
This year’s headliner on the New Gen Main Stage is Cristale!
Cristale is a unique talent. At just 20 she’s a supremely skilled rapper, poet, storyteller, visual artist and university student, with a number of viral freestyles to her name and several singles, including recent underground hit’s ‘Morgan’, ‘Whites’ and ‘See Myself’. Fresh from signing a record deal with 4ZA / Black Butter, she’s now planning more singles and an EP.
She has always admired fellow wordsmiths like Wretch 32, Chip and Lauryn Hill, but, when it comes to her own ambition, she won’t compare herself to any of her peers. “It’s not my intention to be like anybody else. It’s my intention to be like me,” she says, stating a desire to be “big enough to make a big change — in the world, and in the way that people think. Big enough to abolish some aspect of the ignorance that is overpopulating the Earth right now. Big enough to influence generations to come.”
Come see her shell down our main stage on the 24th July alongside DJ Kwamzi and our specially selected line-up of West London talent. Tickets available via Sessami.
