Seventeen members from Hoshi and Woozi (HxW), woman teams IVE and NMIXX and boy teams Zerobaseone and P1Harmony are among the many first wave of artist slated for KCON L.A., CJ ENM introduced Monday.
KCON, the world’s no. 1 Okay-pop pageant, will return to downtown’s Los Angeles Conference Middle and Crypto.com Area for the three-day occasion, giving native Okay-Pop followers an opportunity at seeing a number of of their favourite acts below the identical roof. Traditionally, the pageant has held daytime programming on the conference heart earlier than shuffling ticket-holding followers throughout the road to the sector for nighttime live shows.
KCON L.A. returns Aug. 1-3 in downtown Los Angeles.
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This 12 months, KCON L.A. will characteristic “pageant grounds” in an try to incorporate extra content material and make the expertise extra immersive, in response to a launch. The theme of KCON 2025 is Klover’s Membership Honest, which the pageant’s father or mother firm says drew inspiration from a 4 leaf clover and is supposed to carry luck and pleasure to attendees.
The pageant will as soon as once more make the most of a number of phases together with the artist stage, meet and greet, X stage and M Countdown (named after the guy CJ-owned cable channel Mnet’s music program). The artist and meet and greet phases shall be used to for followers to get the prospect to satisfy their favourite artists up shut, in response to a launch, in the meantime the X stage will showcase rising expertise. Actual stage by stage programming has but to be launched.
Along with HxW, IVE, NMIXX, P1Harmony and Zerobaseone, KCON L.A.’s preliminary lineup consists of Cravity, J-Pop group IS:SUE, Izna, J-Pop group JO1, rapper Lee Youngji and singer-songwriter Roy Kim. Extra artists are anticipated to be introduced within the coming weeks.
The primary wave of artists for KCON L.A. 2025 have been introduced with further anticipated to be introduced within the coming weeks.
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Final 12 months’s pageant was its greatest but in scope. The pageant’s remaining live performance portion, generally known as M Countdown, was broadcast dwell on The CW, marking the primary time a Okay-Pop efficiency was proven on nationwide TV in primetime. Actress Awkwafina made a particular visitor look, internet hosting solo and alongside NCT 127 members Johnny and Mark.
KCON L.A. is about to happen on Aug. 1-3. Extra particulars on ticket gross sales, actual programming and extra artists shall be introduced at a later date.
