The Love Supreme Jazz Festival, held at Glynde Place in East Sussex, UK, is happening this weekend, July 4-6. Love Supreme is a UK-based camping jazz festival that started back in 2013. The weekend features a mix of established and emerging jazz, funk, and soul artists.
Jacob Collier is headlining Love Supreme on Saturday, and this performance will be the singer’s only UK festival show of the year. Sunday’s headliner is Maxwell, whose performance will also be his only UK show of 2025. Other well-known artists this weekend are Nile Rodgers & Chic, Smokey Robinson, En Vogue, and The Roots, whose drummer, Questlove, directed the Oscar-winning documentary Summer of Soul. Notable acts this year also include Thee Sacred Souls, Durand Jones & The Indications, Brian Jackson, Sasha Keable, and Neil Cowley Trio.
The Band & Voices stage includes artists Grooveverse, Imaginary Millions, Mica Sefia, Charlotte Dowsson, and Tendayi & Friends. They will also host different workshops and dances on this stage, including Afrobeats Dance workshop, Brazilian Samba, Hip Hop and Funk Streetdance, and Reggae Aerobics. Check out the complete festival lineup here.
The festival consists of different stages: The Main Stage, The Big Top, The Arena, The Bandstand, and Bands & Voices. The Main Stage focuses on broader styles and genres as well as more well-known acts, including headliners. The Bandstand focuses on up-and-coming and local performers, and the Band & Voices area includes a mix of spoken word, dance, and cabaret.
Aside from the incredible music, food, and camping, Love Supreme also has a wellness section throughout the weekend. Festivalgoers can take a break and enjoy wood-fired hot tubs, yoga massage treatments, cold plunges, and more opportunities to relax and recharge.
The festival partners with BBC Radio 2, Nordic Spirit, Hard Rock Cocktails, Jazzwise, Teremana, and more.
The original idea for this event started with wanting to combine the jazz music scene with the UK festival scene. Love Supreme consists of a diverse lineup with an important focus on including both well-known and up-and-coming artists. In the festival’s first years, there were around 15,000 people; it has now surpassed its ten-year anniversary in 2023, with around 24,000 festivalgoers. Love Supreme has now solidified its place as one of the UK’s leading jazz festivals.
