Blume Summer Camp 2027: Erol Alkan, Luke Una and Jamz Supernova Lead New Family Festival

Hideout co-founder Dan Blackledge and musician Molly Blackledge are launching Blume Summer Camp, a new family festival that makes its debut from 6 to 8 August 2027 at Stapleford Estate in Leicestershire and Rutland. The first names on the bill are Erol Alkan, Luke Una, Jamz Supernova, Auntie Flo, Daudi Matsiko and Alice Boyd, with more to follow.

Blume is aimed at parents who grew up going to clubs and festivals and now have children of their own. The plan is a weekend that works for both: adventures for the kids, and for the adults, the music and culture they loved long before family life arrived. The site mixes woodland and open parkland, linked by the estate’s own miniature railway.

“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. The landscape really inspired Blume, along with our desire to spend more time outside, with the kids and without them. We want more music, more growing, gardening and cooking over fire with mates around. More making things with our hands, less rushing around, and enough space for the kids to find the magic that’s already there.”
Dan Blackledge, co-founder

A Soundtrack From the 2000s and 2010s

The music is rooted in the club and festival culture of those two decades and moves through house, disco, Balearic, folk, jazz and ambient across three music spaces. Expect morning sessions in the woods, coffee raves, live performances and folk around the fire. Headliners are programmed early, so the big moments land within family friendly hours without the weekend losing its energy.

The Listening Lounge is the place to flick through vinyl and play the kids your favourite records. It also hosts conversations, intimate performances and late night sets.

Growing, Fire and Forgotten Skills

Away from the music, the programme leans hard into the outdoors. The Potting Shed is curated by Mitch McCulloch of Mitch Grows, with hands on growing and gardening alongside Gaz Oakley and Garden of Moths, plus Auntie Flo’s Plants Can Dance and performances from Alice Boyd. Spiritlab, curated with Annie Clarke and two time world freerunning champion Tim Shieff, covers breathwork with Stuart Sandeman of Breathpod, wood fired saunas and cold plunges from Stamford Sauna Club, hot tubs, yoga and movement.

Base Camp, curated with Henry Brydon of Outside Kids, runs den building, fire skills, knots, stone skimming and birding, along with an adventure passport for children to explore the site. Forgotten Arts brings foraging, navigation, spoon whittling, basket weaving and natural dyeing, with Notswolds and Axe & Paddle, while Rebel Book Club hosts authors and campfire stories.

Food is cooked over fire with local, seasonal produce. Fire cooking specialist Genevieve Taylor and Gaz Oakley will run live workshops, and a kids’ cookery school is included in the ticket. Children’s sessions run through the day and evening, which leaves parents free to catch a DJ, take a class or spend an hour in the sauna. Blume will even supply printed permission slips so parents can give each other some time off.

The People Behind It

Dan Blackledge has spent 25 years working across music, festivals and hospitality. He co-founded Hideout Festival and grew it into a 17,000 person event, and he led the transformation of Obonjan, a 56 hectare Croatian island, into an award winning resort. Molly Blackledge is a singer, songwriter, producer and creative director who represented the UK at Eurovision in 2014. Blume, created through their studio In The Beginning, is the first festival the pair have made together.

“Blume brings together the music we love and the outdoor culture we want more of in our lives. We haven’t got it all figured out, far from it. This is our attempt to make a little more space for those things. Maybe other families want a bit more of them too.”
Molly Blackledge, co-founder and creative director

Tickets

Early Bird tickets go on sale on Tuesday 17 November 2026, and anyone who registers at the festival website gets first access. Weekend prices start at £210 for adults, £126 for teenagers aged 13 to 17 and £84 for children aged 4 to 12, and under fours go free. Early Bird tickets include general camping, which opens on Thursday afternoon, and boutique camping and campervan options will also be available.

Our Take

Plenty of family festivals book a couple of dance names and call it a day. Blume starts from the other side, with a lineup a club crowd would recognise and a weekend built around the children as well. Putting the headliners on early is a simple fix for the oldest problem raving parents have.

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