Hideout co-founder Dan Blackledge and Molly Blackledge are launching a family festival in Rutland for parents who grew up on dancefloors, with daytime headliners, fire-cooked feasts and a lot of woodland.
If you spent your 00s and 10s at Wax:On, Hideout or Bugged Out, or dancing through Ibiza summers, you may now have a primary-school kid who wants a 7am start. Blume Summer Camp is built for exactly that crowd, and it lands from 6 to 8 August 2027 at Stapleford Estate in Leicestershire and Rutland.
Who is behind it, and who is playing
Blume is the first festival experience created by husband and wife Dan and Molly Blackledge, through their studio In The Beginning. Dan co-founded Hideout Festival, growing it into a 17,000-person event, and led the transformation of a 56-hectare Croatian island into the Obonjan experiential resort. Molly is a singer, songwriter, producer and creative director who represented the UK at Eurovision in 2014.
The first names are Erol Alkan, Luke Una, Jamz Supernova, Auntie Flo, Daudi Matsiko and Alice Boyd, with more to come. Auntie Flo plays a DJ set and also brings Plants Can Dance. The clever bit is the scheduling: headliners play early, so big musical moments land in family-friendly hours without losing festival energy. No late bedtimes, no wrecked mornings.
Expect house, disco, Balearic, folk, jazz and ambient across three music spaces, from morning sessions in the woods and coffee raves to live sets and folk around the fire. The Listening Lounge is the spot to flick through vinyl and introduce the kids to your favourite records, and it also hosts conversations, intimate performances and late-night sets.
Beyond the dancefloor
The site is woodland and open parkland, linked by the estate’s own miniature railway. There is plenty to do between sets:
The Potting Shed, curated by Mitch McCulloch (Mitch Grows, The Seed Hunter), offers hands-on growing alongside Gaz Oakley. Spiritlab covers breathwork with Stuart Sandeman (Breathpod), wood-fired saunas and cold plunges from Stamford Sauna Club, hot tubs, yoga and movement, curated with Annie Clarke and freerunning champion Tim Shieff. Base Camp, curated with Henry Brydon of Outside Kids, has den building, fire skills, stone skimming, birding, marshmallow roasting and an adventure passport. Forgotten Arts brings foraging, spoon whittling, basket weaving and natural dyeing, while the Rebel Book Club programmes authors and campfire stories.
Food is fire-led and seasonal, with live cooking workshops from Genevieve Taylor and Gaz Oakley. A kids’ cookery school is included in the ticket, plus food traders, coffee from first light, wine, cold beer and cocktails. Children’s sessions run through the day and evening, and Blume will even supply printed permission slips so parents can give each other some time out.
As Molly puts it, “We haven’t got it all figured out, far from it. This is our attempt to make a little more space for those things.”
Tickets and camping
Early Bird tickets go on sale Tuesday 17 November 2026, and anyone who registers at blumesummer.camp gets first access. Prices start at £210 for adults, £126 for teenagers aged 13 to 17, £84 for children aged 4 to 12, and under-fours go free. Early Bird weekend tickets include general camping, which opens on Thursday afternoon, with boutique camping and campervan options also available.
Fancy a festival where the headliner is done before bedtime? Register on the Blume Summer Camp website now, and be ready when tickets drop on 17 November.
