Mostly Jazz Funk & Soul Festival 2023: All you need to know
KC & The Sunshine Band, Ezra Collective, and KOKOROKO are all set to perform at Mostly Jazz, Funk & Soul Festival 2023
Last updated 16th Feb 2023
US funk-disco legends KC and The Sunshine Band are the latest big name for Birmingham's Mostly Jazz Funk and Soul Festival 2023.
The band, who are headlining the Sunday night of the festival, join the beloved New Zealand outfit Fat Freddy's Drop (who are headlining Friday evening), and the explosive Jazz FM Award-winning Ezra Collective (who are the Saturday headliners).
The festival has also added the London Afrobeat and highlife-influenced eight-piece Kokoroko (Friday), whose debut album for Gilles Peterson’s Brownswood label, Could We Be More, was greeted with universal acclaim; long-standing Mostly favourites Smoove and Turrell (Saturday), who are making their fourth appearance at the festival; and musician, DJ, and BBC 6Music broadcaster Huey Morgan (Sunday).
You can see the full lineup below.
Mostly Jazz, Funk and Soul Festival 2023 - Day-by-day Lineup
Friday (7 JULY 2023):
Fat Freddy's Drop
Kokoroko
Goldie (Live)
Eva Lazarus
Jasmine Myra
Jungle DJ Set
Lynks
Truemendous
Nikhil Beats
Crazy P Sound System
Emma Jean Thackery (DJ Set)
Leftfoot DJs
Reli:ah
Saturday (8 JULY 2023):
Ezra Collective
Smoove & Turrell
Heavy Beat Brass Band
Alogte Oho & his Sounds of Joy
The Notebenders
Boca 45
Young Gun Silver Fox
Lara Jones
Gabriella Liandu
Lucas D & The Ghetto Grove
B Music Ensemble
Mr Scruff
Mafalda
Leftfoot DJs
Toni
Sunday (9 JULY 2023):
KC and The Sunshine Band
Incognito
Mica Millar
VC Pines
Freekind.
Mychelle
Huey Morgan
The Coalminers
Soul Grenades
O.
Ella More
Norman Jay
Jamz Supernova
Leftfoot DJs
Island T
About Mostly Jazz Funk and Soul Festival
Debuting in 2010, Mostly Jazz Funk and Soul Festival is a diverse, vibrant festival, celebrating ground-breaking, innovative UK music alongside international trailblazers. Each year Mostly Jazz Funk and Soul brings incredible artists, workshops, arts, crafts, and a selection of Birmingham’s most loved street food and drinks vendors to Moseley, for one epic party weekend.
Held in Moseley Park, a stunning 11-acre woodland glade in the heart of Moseley Village, the festival is just two miles from the centre of Birmingham, yet is a world away from city life. With sloping grounds, creating a natural amphitheatre in front of the beautiful lake, it’s the perfect setting for a festival.
Previous headliners include Chic feat. Nile Rodgers, Public Enemy, Gregory Porter, Chaka Khan, De La Soul, Bonobo, The Specials and The Wailers.
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