Kamasi Washington, IAMDDB and Peggy Gou confirmed for Wilderness Festival 2018

Kamasi Washington

The Oxfordshire festival is set to be held at Cornbury Park, from 2-5 August.

Curating a programme that covers a wide range of genres across four days, the first line-up announcement includes the esteemed saxophonist Kamasi Washington, Chic with Nile Rodgers, Bastille and Chk Chk Chk. As for the schedule’s emerging acts, there’s the ascendant Manchester rapper IAMDDB and rising Korean DJ Peggy Gou.

For 2018, the festival will include three new music and arts venues. Bolstered by numerous partnerships with arts institutions, the festival has also announced that it’ll be teaming up with The Royal Academy of Arts, the British Film Institute and the V&A. The latter will present the exhibition Fashioned from Nature and Frida Kahlo’s Wardrobe.

Head here for tickets, and read Crack’s in-depth features with Kamasi Washington and IAMDDB.