AFTER a successful launch last month, an online music festival is set to take place this weekend.

West Midlands digital festival, The 7 Arts Still Exist, returns on May 29 – May 31, following the successful launch in April.

The second edition of the festival will include 40 performers and 29 artists taking part in concerts, online exhibition and showcases.

The line-up includes musicians: Chloe Mogg, Jess Silk, Jack Cattell, Alex Ohm, Poppy WS, The Follicles, Dutch Criminal Record and others.

Artists such as Amy Crouch, ENNE, Annie Monaghan, Andrew Tyler, Lee Parry will present their multi disciplinary works.

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The 7 Arts Still Exist is a platform for all creatives, founded by Chloe Mogg and Amy Crouch.

The ongoing pandemic forced venues to close and gigs and festivals to be cancelled.

This inspired the online platform to be launched, and began with Chloe and Amy wanting to create a place where both musicians and artists could share their talents in the same place, during the Coronavirus pandemic, after seeing various Facebook groups based around music but none for other areas within the arts.

With that, the Facebook page The 7 Arts Still Exist was born and the first festival took place on April 18 and 19.

Within one week the group gained over 500 members. The group continues to grow having over 1400 members as of May.

The first festival included 36 music acts, 18 hours of music, 26 artists and 118 artworks.

Each live performance had an average of 650 views equalling to an overall of 23,400 views and the art exhibition had over 1,000 views.

The second online festival will continue to recreate a real summer festival experience.

Amy previously told the Worcester News: "I am absolutely blown away by how well the festival went. We have had an unbelievable amount of support from so many different people and it means that there will be more from us in the future! I am beyond thankful and very excited for what is to come."

All streams remain free and the public is welcomed to watch them via festival pages:

www.facebook.com/groups/the7artsstillexist/

www.facebook.com/the7artsstillexist/