Smokey Robinson and many more added to Love Supreme Jazz Festival line up
Limited Early Bird tickets on sale until Sunday 15th December
The King of Motown, Smokey Robinson, will perform his first UK show in over 15 years next summer at Love Supreme Festival. As one of the most influential figures in music history, Smokey is responsible for a raft of timeless hit songs with The Miracles and as a solo artist and writer including Tears of a Clown, I Second That Emotion, Tracks Of My Tears, You've Really Got A Hold On Me, Being With You, Cruisin', The Way You Do (The Things You Do), My Girl, Ain't That Peculiar and My Guy, during a legendary career that has spanned over six decades.
Also announced for next year's festival are chart-topping R&B vocal group En Vogue, soul revivalists Thee Sacred Souls, US saxophone virtuoso Branford Marsalis, inventive Chicago singer and poet Jamila Woods, jazz fusion pioneer and four-time Grammy-winning bassist Stanley Clarke, retro-soul torchbearers Durand Jones & The Indications, funk and rock trailblazers WAR, award-winning rapper redefining hip-hop and African music Sampa The Great, the ethereal Grammy-winning Pakistani-American singer Arooj Aftab and 5x Grammy-nominated US saxophonist Lakecia Benjamin.
They join previously announced Sunday night headliner, triple Grammy-winning soul star Maxwell, for what will be his first UK appearance for 9 years and his only UK show of the year.
Love Supreme, Europe's biggest greenfield jazz festival, returns to Glynde Place in East Sussex from Friday July 4th to Sunday July 6th 2025.
Limited Early Bird tickets are on sale now. More acts will be announced in due course.
"The most spectacular jazz festival in the country"
The Sunday Telegraph ★★★★★
"A Woodstock moment for British Jazz"
The Independent ★★★★★
Maxwell (Sunday)
Smokey Robinson (Saturday)
En Vogue (Sunday)
Thee Sacred Souls (Saturday)
Branford Marsalis (Sunday)
Durand Jones & The Indications (Friday)
Stanley Clarke (Saturday)
Arooj Aftab (Sunday)
WAR (Saturday)
Sampa The Great (Sunday)
Jamila Woods (Friday)
Lakecia Benjamin (Saturday)
