Michael Kiwanuka to Headline Cross The Tracks 2025 Festival
Mercury Prize-winning singer-songwriter Michael Kiwanuka will headline Cross The Tracks 2025, another of the Brockwell Park bank holiday highlights. Taking place on both the 25th May 2025, this is a must festival you won’t want to miss and will be a day to remember filled with jazz, funk and soul. Other featured artists include Jordan Rakei, Cymande, Sinéad Harnett, Bashy, Aba Shanti-I, and Channel One.
A true artist, Michael Kiwanuka has mesmerized listeners ever since his first LP, Home Again, in 2012. Revered for his media-empowering style, Kiwanuka has cemented himself as one of the most notable voices in modern soul, and with his still-unreleased fourth album, Small Changes, arriving in late 2024, a must-see topper.
The now-institutional Cross The Tracks in Brockwell Park has become not only a festival, but a different market of community, copying and music. The lineup is an inclusive blend of both underground and mainstream artists, while the festival’s welcoming atmosphere has attracted genuine music lovers each year. The lineup is also closely tailored, with a commitment to a 50/50 gender balance, setting an example in displacement of the diversity bill seen annually in the UK festival circuit. Past editions have seen artists such as Ezra Collective, Anderson. Paak’s NxWorries, Greentea Peng and Chaka Khan.
Along with the headliners are genre-defying artists such as Egyptian Lover, Grammy-nominated Baby Rose, the South London singer Jaz Karis and the bluesy Lynda Dawn. It’s also building to jazz and soul groups Thee Sinseers & The Altons, alongside JGrrey, Rubii and burgeoning jazz trio Moses Yoofee Trio. DJ sets at the festival feature globally recognized Worldwide FM founder Gilles Peterson, genre-blurring pair musclecars and genreless DJ Shy One.
The impressive wave of talent for this year promises to give it a run for its money on the 2025 UK festival calendar. Tickets for this annual sell out, fully on sale now, don’t miss out, come experience one of the UK’s leading jazz, funk & soul festivals.
