Jax Jones brings live DJ set to beach volleyball
World-renowned English DJ, songwriter and record producer Jax Jones will perform ahead of the Beach Volleyball on Saturday 30 July as part of the Birmingham 2022 Commonwealth Games.
Performing at the Smithfield site at 6pm, the DJ 's live set will be available exclusively to Beach Volleyball ticket holders.
Alongside Birmingham 's summer of sport, Jax Jones will be one of many performers to provide an accompaniment to the sporting extravaganza as part of the Birmingham 2022 Festival, the heart of which is based at the Smithfield site.
Creative, loud and celebratory, the Festival programme is full of events that will bring sport and culture together, including a star-studded cast of live music, entertainment and special events.
One of two major Festival sites hosted in Birmingham 's city centre - Smithfield and Victoria Square - the Smithfield site will host a festival of festivals with a different cultural partner taking to the specially commissioned three-sided Beacon Stage every single day, as well as DJ sets and live performances to accompany the Games.
Through collaboration with the National Trust, the site will also feature 70 young trees, colourful benches and hammocks so people can relax after work whilst soaking up the electric atmosphere. The trees will be planted in gardens and community spaces around Birmingham after the Games.
Like its Victoria Square counterpart, the Smithfield Festival Site will also have its share of parties and celebrations including takeovers from Simmerdown music and arts festival showcased on Friday 29 July, ACE Dance and Music bringing carnival vibes to the heart of Birmingham with an explosion of colour, dance and movement on Saturday 30 July, and Sandwell and Birmingham Mela, bringing the best in South Asian talent, and taking centre stage on Sunday 31 July.
The festival fun continues in August with Swingamajig, featuring the sounds and styles of the 1920s, DJs from BBC Asian Network, Selextorhood, who champion and empower women and gender minority DJs, MADE Festival, Mostly Jazz Funk and Soul, and Break Mission and Eric Scutaro, all taking turns to take over Smithfield 's Beacon Stage to entertain the thousands of people expected to flock to the Festival Site, plus a closing dance party on 7 August - a special party for the final day of the Festival Site.
The place to be this summer, Smithfield will bring everyone together to celebrate the best of British and Commonwealth culture and provide a perfect accompaniment to the world-class sporting events on show.
Pictured: Jax Jones