Little Simz Leads Cross the Tracks 2026 at Brockwell Park Festival
Little Simz will headline Cross the Tracks 2026 at brockwell park festival on Sunday 24 May, when the one-day event returns to Brockwell Park in Brixton for its seventh edition. The festival runs from noon until 10:30pm and places her at the top of a bill built around jazz, funk, soul, hip-hop, reggae and dance.
Little Simz at Brockwell Park
Joy Crookes and KOKOROKO are also on the headline tier, giving the 2026 edition a clear British-led core before the rest of the lineup fills out the park. WAR, Obongjayar, Lady Wray, Knucks, Brooke Combe, corto.alto, the Moses Yoofee Trio and The Womack Sisters are on the bill, so the day stretches well beyond a single marquee set.
Fabio and Grooverider will perform with The Outlook Orchestra, while Channel One Sound System moves the festival deeper into roots and reggae territory. That range is the selling point here: one ticket buys several scenes, not one lane.
Bossmans and Red Bull
Bossmans presented by ZYN is a new secret stage for 2026, and Manga St Hilaire appears there alongside El-B, Wookie, Mixtress, Tailor Jae and Zero in the UK garage and bass selector lineup. The Red Bull Energy stage adds DJ Swisha, Tash LC, Marla Kether, Nina Yamada and Wilfy D, while Reprezent Radio teams with Dopameets and Creative Voices Collective for a workshops tent.
That extra programming pushes Cross the Tracks beyond a standard concert bill. It gives the festival more ways to hold an audience across the full day, which is the sort of practical expansion that matters when a one-day event has to justify a long, site-wide stay.
Brockwell Park access
Tickets start from £86.40 and are available via DICE and other authorised sellers. Brockwell Park sits in south London’s Borough of Lambeth, with Herne Hill a five-minute walk from the site and the Victoria line to Brixton around ten minutes on foot.
There is no on-site parking, so the transport plan is already doing part of the work for anyone attending. The event is all ages, but anyone under 18 must be accompanied by an adult aged 26 or over, which makes this as much a family logistics question as a music one.
For readers deciding whether to buy now, the useful takeaway is simple: the value of the day is in the breadth of the lineup and the easy rail access, not in driving to the park. At £86.40 entry, this is priced as a full-day culture outing, and the mix of headline names, selector sets and workshops gives Cross the Tracks a stronger case than a single-stage show.
