Loyle Carner & Ezra Collective to headline Love Supreme 2026

For the first time, Love Supreme will feature three full days of main stage programming, opening on 3 July with a headline performance from Mercury Prize and Brit Award-winning Ezra Collective. Having first performed at the festival as an emerging act in 2016. Following acclaimed sets in 2018 and 2022, the group have since risen to become one of the UK’s most celebrated and internationally recognised jazz acts and return in 2026 as main stage headliners.

In addition to their headline performance, the group will take on a special curatorial role for the festival’s opening day, which they have dubbed Temple Of Joy. They will shape the Friday line-up, inviting a handpicked selection of artists who reflect their musical influences, collaborative spirit, and the vibrant diversity of the jazz, soul and wider musical scenes.

The first artists confirmed to perform as part of Ezra Collective’s Temple Of Joy are London Afrobeat collective Kokoroko, double MOBO Award-winning drummer Moses Boyd, influential UK DJ Luke Una, and Mississippi soul group Annie & The Caldwells

Saturday’s headline will be multi-award-winning British rapper and songwriter Loyle Carner, whose show comes after a landmark 2025 which included a Glastonbury Other Stage headline, four sold-out nights at Brixton Academy and the release of Top Five album Hopefully.

Alongside the headline acts, Love Supreme Jazz Festival 2026 will present an extensive line-up of international and UK-based talent including 5x Grammy-winning vocalist Samara Joy, a joint show from legendary Motown vocal groups The Temptations & The Four Tops, UK-based US soul artist Jalen Ngonda, US bassist and singer Esperanza Spalding, D.K. Harrell, NY-based multi-instrumentalist and producer Carrtoons ,and husband and wife soul duo The War and Treaty.