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Love Supreme 2025 - you might want to get your tickets now!

You are going to want to book your tickets for the Love Supreme Festival 2025 (4-6 July) because there are some incredible acts now confirmed to appear.


Come and see incredible sax player Lakecia Benjamin in the July sunshine at Glynde Place

A brilliant list of artists will be appearing in Europe's largest greenfield jazz festival. You can read some of my musings from the 2024 festival here, here and here, but trust me - wandering around between the tents and the delicious food outlets and hearing a huge range of jazz, funk and soul acts really could be where your summer 2025 peaks.

The good thing about Love Supreme tickets is that the price is best when you buy it early and there are so many great artists announced already - with more to come - that there is bound to be a couple you really don't want to miss this summer.

A couple of weeks ago, soul star Maxwell was announced, for the headliner slot on Sunday evening and now Motown legend Smokey Robinson is confirmed for his first UK show in 15 years.

As well as Lakecia Benjamin, the rising star sax player pictured above, there's Branford Marsalis and Stanley Clarke who are all top of my list for July. Add En Vogue and WAR to that list and I'm definitely sorted.

New to me is the ethereal Grammy-winning Pakistani-American singer Arooj Aftab, so that's another act I'll be checking out, as well as Chicago singer and poet Jamila Woods. Who is top of your list?
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