Ipswich brother and sister duo announced for Big Weekend line-up

A brother and sister duo from Ipswich with thousands of Spotify streams are to appear at a major UK music festival. Esme Emerson are on the bill to appear at the BBC Radio 1 Big Weekend in Liverpool in May this year. They will perform on the BBC Introducing stage on the first day of the festival.

Esme Emerson are regular performers in Ipswich , often appearing at The Baths, The Smokehouse and St Stephen's Church, as well as performing at the Brighten The Corners Festival and Ipswich Music Day. Crowds in Ipswich watching Esme Emerson (Image: Tom Cann) On Spotify, the duo have more than 110,800 monthly listeners, with a number of their songs appearing on various Spotify-made playlists. They also supported Ed Sheeran at a gig recently at The Baths in Ipswich and supported Keane and Gigi Perez last year.



On Instagram, announcing their involvement in the music festival, they said: "Big Weekend, Big Fun and Big thank you to BBC Introducing and BBC Radio 1 for having us. "Come rock with us"..