A new family festival from Hideout Festival co-founder Dan Blackledge and musician Molly Blackledge will debut at Stapleford Estate in Leicestershire and Rutland from 6–8 August 2027. Blume Summer Camp has named Erol Alkan, Luke Una, Jamz Supernova, Auntie Flo, Daudi Matsiko and Alice Boyd in its first announcement, with more names to follow.
The event is built for parents who grew up in clubs and festivals, and who now want that energy in the countryside without leaving the kids at home. Children get their own adventures. Parents get the music, the cooking, the sauna and the records they loved before family life took over.
Early Bird tickets go on sale on Tuesday 17 November 2026. People who register at blumesummer.camp get first access. Adult tickets start from £210, teenagers aged 13–17 from £126, and children aged 4–12 from £84. Under-fours go free. Weekend Early Bird tickets include general camping. Camping opens on Thursday afternoon, with boutique camping and campervan options also planned.
The site sits among woodland and open parkland, linked by the estate’s own miniature railway. Music runs across three spaces, from morning sessions in the woods and coffee raves to live performances and folk around the fire. The soundtrack is rooted in the club and festival culture of the 2000s and 2010s, moving between house, disco, Balearic, folk, jazz and ambient. Headliners are programmed early, so the big musical moments land in family-friendly hours without losing the feel of a proper festival.
Erol Alkan and Luke Una arrive as two of the UK’s most respected selectors. The pair are already set for a special back-to-back at Snowbombing 2027, so a joint appearance at Blume would fit a year in which both names are firmly back on the festival circuit. Jamz Supernova, Auntie Flo, Daudi Matsiko and Alice Boyd complete the first wave.
The Listening Lounge is the record room. Parents can flick through vinyl, play favourite records to their kids, sit in on conversations, catch intimate performances, or stay for late-night sets.
Away from the dancefloors, the programme is built around growing, making, moving and getting outside. The Potting Shed, curated by Mitch McCulloch of Mitch Grows and The Seed Hunter, covers hands-on growing and gardening with Gaz Oakley and Garden of Moths. Its nature-led soundtrack includes Plants Can Dance from Auntie Flo and performances by Alice Boyd. Auntie Flo, also known as Brian d’Souza, has form with site-specific sound work, including commissioned pieces for Glastonbury’s Hayes Pavilion mycelium project.
Spiritlab covers wellness, movement, sound and contrast therapy, curated with Annie Clarke and two-time world freerunning champion Tim Shieff. Expect breathwork from Stuart Sandeman of Breathpod, wood-fired saunas and cold plunges from Stamford Sauna Club, hot tubs, plus yoga and movement for adults and children.
Base Camp, curated with Henry Brydon of Outside Kids, is the adventure zone. Den building, fire skills, knots, stone skimming, birding and marshmallow roasting sit alongside an adventure passport so children can explore the site. Forgotten Arts covers foraging, navigation, spoon whittling, basket weaving and natural dyeing. Notswolds curates the craft programme with contributors including Axe & Paddle. Rebel Book Club will programme authors, conversations and campfire stories across Base Camp and the Potting Shed.
Food is built around fire, seasonality and local produce, with feasts and brunches rather than a standard trader strip alone. Fire-cooking specialist Genevieve Taylor and Gaz Oakley will run live cooking workshops. A kids’ cookery school is included in the ticket. Coffee runs from first light, with wine, cold beer, cocktails and food traders also on site.
Children’s sessions run through the day and into the evening, so parents can catch a DJ, take a class, use the sauna, or spend an hour with friends. Organisers will even print permission slips for parents to hand each other a little time out.
Dan Blackledge said the team spent years searching for the right site, “all over the world”, before 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.”
Molly Blackledge, co-founder and creative director, said 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.”
Blume is the first festival the pair have created together, through their studio In The Beginning. Dan Blackledge has spent 25 years in music, festivals and hospitality. He co-founded Hideout, which grew into a 17,000-person event on Zrce Beach, and led the transformation of a 56-hectare Croatian island into the award-winning Obonjan resort. Molly Blackledge is a singer, songwriter and producer who represented the UK at Eurovision in 2014, and has spent more than a decade across festivals, brand, design and storytelling.
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