Glastonbury Festival Emerging Talent Competition

Glastonbury Festival Emerging Talent Competition in partnership with PRS for Music and PRS Foundation gives new UK and Ireland-based acts of any musical genre the chance to compete for a slot on one of the main stages at the Festival.

The winners of the free-to-enter competition are also awarded a £5,000 PRS Foundation Talent Development prize  to help take their songwriting and performing to the next level. Two runners-up are also awarded a £2,500 PRS Foundation Talent Development prize each.

Acts from any musical genre can enter the competition FOR ONE WEEK ONLY using the form at glastonburyfestivals.co.uk when the competition is launched and live. The Festival is committed to diversity and inclusivity and we welcome entries from disabled artists, who we will support to ensure they are not disadvantaged by the process.

Once the entries are in, a panel of 30 of the UK’s best music writers help to compile a longlist of 90 acts. The longlist is then narrowed down to a shortlist of eight artists by judges including Glastonbury organisers Michael and Emily Eavis, before the live finals in Pilton decide the winning act.

Recent Emerging Talent Competition finalists include 2023 winner N’famady Kouyaté, 2022 runners up English Teacher, who went on to win the 2024 Mercury Prize; rapper Flohio who won the prestigious Music Moves Europe Talent Award in 2020; R&B singer Izzy Bizu (a 2016 BRITs Critics’ Choice nominee and winner of the 2016 BBC Music Introducing Award); and singer-songwriter Declan McKenna, who won ETC 2015 and subsequently released three successful albums.

Potential applicants are encouraged to follow Glastonbury Festival, PRS for Music and PRS Foundation social media for announcements of when the competition opens and closes.

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