51st State Festival Full Lineup announced

51st State by Found Series the festival dedicated to soulful dance music announce the lineup for the second edition at London’s Trent Park on Saturday 6th August.

The lineup features tastemakers, trail-blazers and seminal figures from house, garage, soul, funk, dub, dancehall and disco with Kings Of House, Soul II Soul, Body & Soul, Roy Ayers Ubiquity, Roger Sanchez, Todd Terry, Dimitri From Paris, Crystal Waters, The Basement Boys, Barbara Tucker, Matt Jam Lemont, Mr Vegas, The Heatwave, Jazzy B, Joey Negro, Horse Meat Disco, Marshall Jefferson and many more set to perform at the leafy North London location.

Main Stage headliners Kings Of House, made up from three of the genre’s most legendary figures; Louie Vega, Tony Humphries and David Morales. Grammy Award winning Soul II Soul will also play a must-see set from the open-air stage. A who’s who of house music heroes follows on as Roger Sanchez, Todd Terry, Marshall Jefferson and Mike Dunn all take to the stage hosted by iconic soul singer Barbara Tucker. Other festival highlights include the Groove Odyssey arena with performances from Body & Soul lynchpins Francois K, Joe Claussell and Danny Krivit as well as The Basement Boys: Spen, Karizma and Teddy Douglas. Crowds at Groove Odyssey will also enjoy live sets from stage hosts Adeva and Monique Bingham.

A festival favourite in 2015, BackTo95 have assembled another colossal lineup with arena hosts Crystal Waters celebrating 25 years of their smash-hit single Gypsy Woman, and a troupe of revered garage personalities including Todd Edwards, Artful Dodger, Matt Jam Lamont, Spoony & Mikee B and Norris De Boss Windross.

Standard tickets are already on the third tier with VIP tickets close to selling out. Remaining tickets are expected to sell fast, so act quickly to avoid disappointment from www.51ststatefestival.com

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Grahame Farmer

Grahame Farmer’s love affair with electronic music goes back to the mid-90s when he first began to venture into the UK’s beloved rave culture, finding himself interlaced with some of the country’s most seminal club spaces. A trip to dance music’s anointed holy ground of Ibiza in 1997 then cemented his sense of purpose and laid the foundations for what was to come over the next few decades of his marriage to the music industry.