The famous Jazz Café’s first outing at Burgess Park promises a stellar line-up of international talent, trading the dark club for sun-charged fields.
The Camden Club is curating a cracking line-up for their first ever foray from their hometown. Four stages, a grand arena-style mainstage for headliners with a 360-degree set up, a tropical plant room, a secret stage, and many, many food trucks, the Jazz Café are donning all the proverbial bells and whistles to make this day out the best on the UK calendar.
A line-up lovingly designed by those who truly know and care about their music, headliners include Nils Frahm, Buena Vista All Stars, Earl Sweatshirt, and ELIZA. These headliners could not be more different from each other; German classical-electronica, Cuban sol, alternative hip-hop, and indie-pop respectively. Yet, each are known and loved by the same sort of adventurous listeners.
The line-up goes on: Alchemist, one of America’s most important and prolific hip-hop producers; Crazy P Soundsystem, a mainstay in British disco for the last decade; dialE, a different kind of up-and-coming UK rapper who looks beyond his genre for his sound; Gilles Peterson, who himself curated We Out Here festival and coined the term ‘acid jazz’; Habibi Funk, who play the most eclectic mix of 70s and 80 Middle Eastern and Arabian funk, soul, disco, and pop; Soichi Terada, a highly influential Japanese techno artist; Omar Souleyman, Syrian wedding singer turned Arab-fusion superstar, who made waves for his blend of Middle Eastern melodies with throbbing electronic beats.
The line-up goes on, impressively for a day festival which lasts around 12 hours, but even more impressively they managed to curate a line-up with so much variety that still appeals to a highly fractured modern audience. They hit the mark here. Pray the weathers still good in September and we may just have a contender for ‘London day festival of the year’.