Over 100,000 Fans Attend Debut Palace Bowl Presents Festival Series at Crystal Palace Bowl

The first edition of festival series Palace Bowl Presents completed this weekend, with the record-breaking, brand-new London concert series welcoming over 100,000 music fans through its doors. For the past three weeks, the South London series played host to the capital’s most diverse and eclectic lineup, with more than 60 artists across 12 shows, more than a dozen genres and 15 nationalities represented.
 
Alongside headline performances from Grace Jones, Tom Jones, Gary Numan, Bastille & The Wombats, Davido, Lenny Kravitz, and Jimmy Eat World, the series also included the first-ever international edition of iconic Philadelphia music festival, Roots Picnic. Headlined by Nas & The Roots and Anthony Hamilton, Roots Picnic featured a huge Saturday Super Set – J. Period Live Mixtape featuring Black Thought, Yasiin Bey and Benny The Butcher – plus a Sunday Jam with Robert Glasper & Questlove, Common and Bilal.
 
Elsewhere across the series, Mahrajan Festival established itself as the world’s flagship Arabic music festival with appearances from Saint Levant, Dystinct and Khaled, while London’s first-ever outdoor gospel festival Gospel Garden showcased UK exclusive performances from Kirk Franklin and Tasha Cobbs Leonard. City Pop Waves, a first-of-its-kind outdoor festival celebrating Japanese music in the UK also presented a 2-hour set from Masayoshi Takanaka, with support from Junko Yagami, Himiko Kikuchi and Ginger Root (DJ Set).
 
Palace Bowl Presents takes place at the historic Crystal Palace Bowl, one of London’s most iconic open-air venues.
 
Palace Bowl Presents will return in 2027. Fans can sign up here to be the first to hear more: https://www.palacebowlpresents.co.uk/sign-up/