Festival performers and organisers Dylan Goto-Castel, Tyra Bannerman-Hall and Chenyi Murray

YOUNG people are organising their very own summer music festival.

The New Sounds Festival has been organised by a group of young people working with Music Education Islington. The festival is set to be held on July 17 in Milton Court concert hall.

“It’s hard to find a way to perform and show your music, so I feel like a festival like that puts you out there in some sense,” said Dylan Goto-Castel, 17, a jazz pianist who will be performing at the festival, as well as helping to organise it.

Chenyi Murray, 16, is a singer and another festival organiser. “I got involved because it seemed like something fun to do,” she said.

“It’s a lot of planning, and a lot of thinking. A lot of thinking about things I wouldn’t necessarily think about, like what we want to actually happen at the festival, or what type of thing you want performed.”

Every performer will be a young, up-and-coming musician from the borough. The organisers selected the performers after an open call was put out for young musicians to send in their tracks.

Ms Murray is going to be singing one of her original songs. “I took singing lessons from when I was three-and-a-half years old … I have sung in front of audiences before so I’m not nervous about that. I’m feeling pretty confident. It’s like when you perform a song that no one else has heard before, but it’s not an original. It kind of feels like an original because you’re sharing it with people for the first time.”

The students made posters to promote the festival, decided how it should be structured and run, and some will even be running lights and sound on the night.