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Daily Trojan Spotlights CAMP: THE NEXT GEN FEST and Los Angeles’ Next Generation of Emerging Artists

Daily Trojan Spotlights CAMP: THE NEXT GEN FEST and Los Angeles’ Next Generation of Emerging Artists

We are so grateful to USC’s Daily Trojan for its wonderful feature on CAMP: THE NEXT GEN FEST, our inaugural Los Angeles music festival celebrating emerging artists and the next generation of music and culture.

CAMP: THE NEXT GEN FEST was co-founded and produced by Elaine Sir of Seoulfull Media and Lauri Firstenberg of IF Innovation Foundation, with young artist and producer Edie Yvonne helping bring the vision to life.

Created as a platform for emerging artists to be seen, heard and connected, NEXT GEN FEST brought nearly 20 independent and rising artists together at The Underground Museum in Los Angeles on August 30, 2026.

The Daily Trojan captured exactly what we hoped to create with NEXT GEN FEST: a supportive community where young musicians could perform for new audiences, discover one another and celebrate what is coming next in music.

The inaugural lineup included an incredible group of emerging artists spanning rock, indie, pop, Latin pop and more, including Late Autumn featuring Yoyoka, Maya Ixta, Carolina Chase, Edie Yvonne, L.E.D., Kim Theory, The Uncle Tims, What Happened to Peter and many more.

We’re incredibly proud of what this community created in year one—and we’re just getting started.

Thank you to writer Ash Dunlap and the Daily Trojan for spending the day with CAMP and shining a light on these extraordinary young artists.

CLICK HERE TO READ THE FULL DAILY TROJAN ARTICLE

CAMP: THE NEXT GEN FEST is a Los Angeles music and culture festival co-founded by Elaine Sir of Seoulfull Media and Lauri Firstenberg of IF Innovation Foundation, created to discover, support and celebrate the next generation of emerging artists.

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