Mostly Jazz Funk & Soul Festival taking place from 10th-12th July 2015 at Moseley Park, Birmingham have announced that Sugarhill Gang Furious Five Feat Melle Mel & Scorpio, Roy Ayers & Gregory Porter will headline this years event.

Celebrating the dynamic grooves, innovation and excitement of the modern jazz movement; Mostly Jazz is about showcasing the diversity of contemporary jazz in all its forms. From avant-garde, free and modern jazz through to vocal, song based jazz, jazz-fusion and future jazz it’s also about considering jazz’s influence and relationship to other black music art-forms such as Latin music, funk and soul.

Line up

Friday

Sugarhill Gang Furious Five Feat Melle Mel & Scorpio, The Pharcyde, Soil & Pimp Sessions, The Milk, The Mouse Outfit Feat Dr Syntax & Sparkz, Free School, Lumi Hd, Namiwa Jazz, Boom Operators, Amy Fitz Doyley, Kioko

Saturday

Roy Ayers, Craig Charles, Cymande, Hackney Colliery Band, Ephemerals, The Gene Dudley Group, Filthy Six, New Street Adventure, Steve Ajao, The Atlantic Players, Tiro Lark

Sunday

Gregory Porter, The James Hunter Six, Tenors Of Kalma Feat. Jimi Tenor, Sid Peacock & Surge Orchestra, Baila La Cumbia, Johnny Hoo, ∆Utumn, Hansu Tori, Rachel Cohen Quartet, Urban Soul Family, Steve Tromans – Axis Point, Jazzlines Ensemble, Jazzlines Partnershipm Jazz Kids Workshop

Friday Official Aftershow Party Feat. The Nextmen & Sam Redmore – Hare & Hounds

Saturday Official Afterparty – Northern Soul All Nighter Feat. Craig Charles (Funk & Soul Set), Neil Rushton, Billy Chill Fingers & Tobin Locherie – Moseley Dance Centre

Tickets now on sale.