Blume Summer Camp, a Rutland family festival, announces Erol Alkan and Luke Una

Erol Alkan, Luke Una, Jamz Supernova and Auntie Flo head the first lineup for Blume Summer Camp, a new family festival at Stapleford Estate in Leicestershire and Rutland, announced for August 6 to 8, 2027. Daudi Matsiko and Alice Boyd complete the first wave, with more names to come.

Dan Blackledge co-founded Hideout, the festival that turned Croatia’s Zrće Beach into a summer pilgrimage for UK ravers. This time he is working with musician and creative director Molly Blackledge. “We spent a few years searching for the right site, all over the world, and ended up finding it in our own backyard in Rutland,” Dan says.

The music is rooted in 2000s and 2010s club culture: house, disco, Balearic, folk, jazz and ambient across three music spaces. Expect morning sessions in the woods, coffee raves and folk around the fire. Headliners are programmed early so the big moments fall in family-friendly hours. The Listening Lounge has vinyl to flick through, plus conversations, intimate performances and late-night sets.

The site spreads across woodland and open parkland, and the estate’s miniature railway links it together. Mitch McCulloch curates the Potting Shed with Gaz Oakley and Garden of Moths. Annie Clarke and two-time world freerunning champion Tim Shieff curate wellness and movement at Spiritlab. Base Camp, curated with Henry Brydon of Outside Kids, has den building, fire skills, stone skimming and an adventure passport. Forgotten Arts covers foraging, spoon whittling, basket weaving and natural dyeing, with Notswolds and Axe & Paddle on craft duties, and Rebel Book Club adds authors and campfire stories. Stuart Sandeman of Breathpod leads breathwork, Stamford Sauna Club brings wood-fired saunas and cold plunges, and Auntie Flo’s Plants Can Dance soundtracks the greenery.

Genevieve Taylor and Gaz Oakley host live cooking workshops, and a kids’ cookery school is included in the ticket. Coffee is on from first light, with wine, cold beer and cocktails later.

Children’s sessions run through the day and evening, which leaves parents time to catch a DJ or use the sauna. Blume will even print permission slips so parents can sign each other off. “Blume brings together the music we love and the outdoor culture we want more of in our lives,” Molly says.

Early Bird tickets go on sale Tuesday, November 17, 2026; sign-up is at blumesummer.camp.