Urvakan Festival Announces First Acts For 2020

Shackleton, The Bug and more will head to Armenia for the event

Urvakan Festival, returning this May for its second year, has announced its first wave of acts for 2020.

The Armenian festival’s line-up this year has been put together in part by curators Rabih Beaini, Club Chai, Gost Zvuk, Brandon Rosenbluth, Klammklang, Synthposium and TKANI.

Alongside those curators involvement, Shackleton’s Tunes of Negation, The Bug, MSYLMA, Madteo, Slikback, Aïsha Devi, Emptyset, Black To Comm, Ellen Arkbro, Lyra Pramuk, Schacke and Pavel Milyakov, AKA Buttechno, are all billed. More acts will be announced in the coming months.

Urvakan runs from May 5-9. Tickets and more information can be found here, while you can read tQ’s review of last year’s event here.

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