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Nile Rodgers & CHIC to headline new ‘LoveBn1Fest’ on Pride Sunday

Besi Besemar January 22, 2018

Multi Grammy award-winning superstar Nile Rodgers & CHIC to headline Brighton Pride LoveBn1Fest On Sunday August 5, 2018.

Grammy-winning composer, producer, arranger, guitarist Nile Rodgers and his multi-platinum selling band CHIC are confirmed to headline Brighton Pride’s LoveBN1Fest on Sunday, August 5 in Preston Park.

LoveBN1Fest is the brand new Pride Sunday Festival on Preston Park celebrating everything Brighton & Hove and helping raise extra funds for the Pride Social Impact Fund while bringing all our communities together.

Famed for tracks such as Le Freak, I Want Your Love and Good Times, Nile Rodgers has written and produced for some of the most illustrious artists in the world including Madonna, Diana Ross, David Bowie and Eric Clapton.

They will perform a unique set featuring some of the greatest collaborations of Nile’s four-decade career including David Bowie, Madonna and Diana Ross, whose collaborations with Nile have sold over 300 million albums and 50 million singles worldwide while his innovative, trendsetting collaborations with Daft Punk, Avicii, Sigala, Disclosure and Sam Smith reflect the vanguard of contemporary music.

Their set, one of the highlights of Glastonbury Festival 2017, will reverberate at the LoveBN1Fest to hit records produced by Nile Rodgers such as Pharrell Williams’ Get LuckyDiana Ross’s I’m Coming OutDavid Bowie’s Let’s dance and a raft of CHIC hits including Good Times and Le Freak.

With more artists to be announced… LoveBN1Fest will feature performance and dance tents, family tent, circus skills, cabaret and theatre, spoken word, community stalls and food village, accessibility tent and WellBeing area. LoveBN1Fest has something for everyone and, with children under 11 going free, it’s the perfect Sunday In The Park for Pride.

Pride organisers urge local people to get their tickets early this year as sales expectations are very high.

To book tickets for LoveBN1Fest, £27.50 & £37.50, click here: 

To book joint tickets with Pride Saturday, click here:

Children under 11 are free (but still require a ticket)

Click for highlights of Chic’s set at Glastonbury 2017

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