Five-time Grammy Award-winning Rock and Roll Hall of Fame inductee Janet Jackson has been confirmed as a headliner for HeritageLive 2026, performing at the Sandringham Estate in Norfolk on Wednesday 19 August. She will be joined by special guests Wyclef Jean and Soul II Soul.
Jackson joins a star-studded headline bill for the festival, which runs from Wednesday 19 to Sunday 23 August. She is the first to be confirmed for the Wednesday night, with Lionel Richie headlining Thursday 20 August, Ricky Martin on Saturday 22 August, and Eric Clapton closing the festival on Sunday 23 August.
Tickets for Janet Jackson at the Sandringham Estate go on presale from Tuesday 2 June at 9am via See Tickets. Fans must pre-register in advance at arep.co/p/janetjackson to access the presale. General sale follows on Wednesday 3 June at 9am. Discounted multi-day festival tickets, VIP packages, and glamping and caravan pitches on the Royal Estate are also available. VIP packages include tours of Sandringham House.
Giles Cooper of HeritageLive Festival said: “We’re absolutely delighted to welcome Janet Jackson to our 2026 line-up at Sandringham Estate. HeritageLive has always aimed to present the very biggest global artists in special settings. Janet is genuine music royalty: a performer whose influence, catalogue and live reputation span generations. To have an artist of her stature performing in such a prestigious and historic setting promises something really exceptional, and we know it will be an unforgettable night for everyone there.”
With over 180 million records sold worldwide, Jackson is one of the best-selling artists of all time and holds the record for the biggest-selling debut tour in history. She is the first woman to debut in the Top 10 of the Billboard Hot 100, and stands alongside Barbra Streisand, Bruce Springsteen, and U2 as one of only four artists to score a number one album across four successive decades. In 2026, her landmark album Rhythm Nation 1814 was inducted into the Grammy Hall of Fame, with Jackson commenting at the ceremony: “Rhythm Nation is a movement of people of all ages and backgrounds seeking to give and receive love free of judgment.”
Jackson was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 2019 alongside her brothers. That same year, her Las Vegas residency Metamorphosis closed to record-breaking ticket sales across just 18 dates at the Park MGM’s Park Theater, with Billboard Boxscore ranking her among the biggest Vegas performers of the decade, ahead of Celine Dion, Britney Spears, and the Backstreet Boys. Her critically acclaimed documentary Janet Jackson. drew over 20 million viewers in a single week.
Joining Jackson on the night is Wyclef Jean, the three-time Grammy Award-winning artist, producer, and founding member of the Fugees, whose landmark 1996 album The Score sold more than 18 million copies globally. As a solo artist, Wyclef scored international hits including “Gone Till November,” “911,” and the number one smash “Hips Don’t Lie” with Shakira. His ambitious seven-album project Quantum Leap is due out this year, with new single “Mr. October” featuring G Herbo out now.
Soul II Soul round out the bill. Emerging from the vibrant UK soundsystem culture of 1980s London, the collective rose from underground warehouse parties to global acclaim, led by the visionary Jazzie B. Their chart-topping hits “Keep On Movin'” and “Back To Life” helped redefine British Black music and have since sold over 10 million albums, earning them two Grammy Awards.
Tickets are available from HeritageLive.Seetickets.com. Gates open at 11am and the event closes at 10:30pm. Sandringham Estate is located at Norfolk PE35 6EN. For all show information including VIP packages, visit www.heritagelive.net.
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