Marcus Miller, Immanuel Wilkins Confirmed For 2023 Love Supreme Festival
Soul queen Candi Staton will also perform at the three-day UK event which celebrates 10 years next year.
Marcus Miller, Immanuel Wilkins and Candi Staton are among the first artists confirmed to perform at the UK’s 2023 Love Supreme Festival.
Following a record-breaking year in 2022, with over 60,000 in attendance across the weekend, Love Supreme Jazz Festival has announced the first wave of artists confirmed to perform at next year’s event, which returns to Glynde Place in East Sussex from Friday June 30 to Sunday July 2, 2023.
Celebrating its milestone 10th anniversary, the three-day event will feature a host of stars from across the worlds of jazz, soul, R&B and pop including pioneering bassist and vocalist Thundercat, gospel-soul trio Gabriels, multi-million-selling, Grammy-winning American soul group Shalamar whose timeless hit songs include “I Can Make You Feel Good,” “A Night To Remember” and “There It Is,” bassist, producer, bandleader and close Miles Davis collaborator Marcus Miller, soul queen Candi Staton, who will perform at the festival as part of her last ever run of UK shows, the father of Ethiopian jazz Mulatu Astatke, internationally acclaimed Blue Note alto saxophonist Immanuel Wilkins, and distinctive UK neo-soul singer-songwriter Pip Millett.
Also featuring a selection of this year’s breakthrough singers – including Obongjayar, Mica Miller, August Charles and Cherise – the 2023 line-up is set to be the festival’s biggest and best to date. Headliners will be announced in early 2023.
Candi Staton said: “I’m completely thrilled to be performing at the 2023 Love Supreme Jazz Festival. It’s a real honor to have been invited back and to have the opportunity to perform alongside all of these incredible artists. I can’t wait to reunite with my wonderful UK fans to celebrate 10 years of Love Supreme!”
The Love Supreme Jazz Festival returns to Glynde Place in East Sussex from Friday June 30 to Sunday July 2, 2023. More acts will be announced in due course. Early Bird Tickets start at £63 (day, weekend, camping, supremium and glamping tickets are available) and are on sale from this Friday December 3 from the event’s official website.
Sensitive Sam
December 1, 2022 at 5:58 pm
Marcus Miller is primarily known as a session musician, producer and songwriter. What will he do as a headliner?