A Suffolk festival is gearing up for its biggest year yet as it prepares to celebrate 20 years.
Several organisers and performers heading to Latitude Festival at Henham Park this July have gathered for the first time ahead of the summer.
From July 23 to 26, the huge festival will see David Byrne, Lewis Capaldi and Teddy Swims headline the Obelisk Arena.
However, Latitude is an important stage for local talent, with the revealed line up for BBC Introducing at the Lavish Lounge including I.Am.Afiya, Josh Tenor, Gabby Rivers and Nadia Kadek.
To mark the mega milestone, a choir of 100 Latitude festivalgoers will also take to the stage for a special anniversary performance.
Gareth Malone OBE will conduct the choir at Henham Park, with 20 songs lined up to represent each year of the festival’s history, performed on the Obelisk Arena stage by attendees selected from the crowd.
Malone first appeared at Latitude for its 10th anniversary, turning a group of strangers into a choir in just three days.
Now, it has been revealed that he will conduct the choir again for the festival’s 20th year.
"Latitude has a quality I've never quite found anywhere else," Malone said.
"There's something about the place, the crowd, the whole atmosphere.
"And when you get a hundred of those people in a room and start making music together, it becomes something genuinely moving."
Melvin Benn, founder and managing director of Festival Republic, said: "When I think about twenty years of Latitude I think about the people whose lives are woven through it.
"Who came here as children and have grown up alongside the festival.
"Whose most important memories, the people they met, the moments that changed them, happened in this field.
"Putting one hundred of them on that stage, singing these songs, for this anniversary, feels exactly right. The festival belongs to the audience, it always has."
