GOAT Head To Goa for Inaugural Festival

GOAT Festival, a brand new boutique music and arts festival is heading to Indian shores in January 2017. A three day Indian love affair, GOAT Festival is to be held on Ashvem beach, which is hidden away in 2 acres of lush palm grove, sheltered by the sand dunes and facing directly west across the Arabian Sea. Across 27-28-29 January, GOAT will curate future-forward sounds from India and around the world alongside performing arts, theatre and spoken word including Gilles Peterson, Sarathay Korwar, Dope St Jude, Kiasmos, Marquis Hawkes,  plus many more.

GOAT festival is presented by GOAT Music, a London-based music and events agency headed up by Dave Gaydon (previous Roundhouse, Head Of Music). The intimate festival seeks to position itself at the confluence of contemporary and traditional, introducing and showcasing a side of India rarely seen by international travellers.

The festival will feature two main stages alongside three alternative performance spaces. After 10pm, the festival will move to two night-time venues close to the festival grounds, where DJ's will spin in rustic beach huts, providing the soundtrack to the surrounding chill out areas, pop up cocktail bars and a reggae beach area.

"After leaving the Roundhouse in the Summer last year, never would we have imagined to be able to present our own festival in the UK let alone in India. The reception has been so encouraging, we are very grateful to be working in such a progressive and creative landscape. We are counting down the days to January 2017." Dave Gaydon, CEO, GOAT Music

GOAT Festival celebrates all genres of music and programs a mix of the best Indian producers accompanied by some of the most exciting alternative and underground international artists. Leading the first announcement of acts, is Gilles Peterson, a music connoisseur who has championed a truly global music perspective through his radio shows and label. Peterson is the also the festival's artist ambassador.

"I'm delighted to be working with GOAT Music on this exciting venture in this beautiful territory. The music programme promises to be a cross-fusion of cultures and sounds including some artists of which I have had the great pleasure of working with before" Gilles Peterson

GOAT FESTIVAL LINEUP

Gilles Peterson
Dope St Jude | Yusseff Kamaal
James Priestley (Secret Sundaze) | Madboy / Mink | Sorceress
Sandunes | Sarathay Korwar | Aqua Dominatrix | Marquis Hawkes
Kuenta i Tambu | Kiasmos (DJ Set) | Donn Bhat + Passenger Revelator
Medlar | Henry Wu | Kumail
& More TBA

Tickets for the three-day festival will be available as day tickets and weekend passes, on sale now at www.goatfestival.co.uk