Mighty Hoopla has announced its 2019 headliner, the winner of 10 Grammy Awards and seller of 70 million records, Chaka Khan. The iconic funk and soul queen will perform classic hits alongside new songs from her recent album Hello Happiness.

This follows Mighty Hoopla’s glorious first wave of artists announced for this year, with early names spanning pop icons like All Saints, Bananarama, Samantha Mumba, Tove Lo, Jamelia and Liberty X. The festival will take place in Brockwell Park, South London, on Saturday 8th June.

Since it all began in 2016, Mighty Hoopla has pioneered celebrations which amplify the capital’s subversive and alternative nightlife. Hoopla prides itself on being a celebration of diversity and “queerdom” and champions all things love, pop and glitter.

Having brought the likes of Years & Years, Lily Allen, TLC, Melanie C and a host of household names and underground icons to the stage during previous years, organiser have said that Mighty Hoopla is set to be “bigger, better, wilder and free-er” than ever this June. Mighty Hoopla was founded by the collective minds of East Creative, Sean Rowley (Guilty Pleasures), Ally Wolf (The Grand) and John Burgess (Bugged Out).

Commenting on last year’s event, Glyn Fussell, co-founder at East Creative, said: “Everything we’ve been working towards, felt like it came to fruition at last year’s Mighty Hoopla. It was the happiest day of my life.” Mighty Hoopla was initially set out in 2016 to provide support for performers, dancers, DJs and creatives in the nightlife industry.

All of whom, at East Creative, are brought together under the wider manifesto of inclusivity, equality, and change. Jamie Tagg, East Creative co-founder, said: “This is a new ecosystem for LGBTQ events. We had to invent it because nobody else had.”

Just as important across its first artist lineup reveal, Mighty Hoopla looks set to pull its celebration of London’s alternative club culture into even clearer focus. Festival-founders Sink The Pink return, the vanguard collective whose anything-goes-parties have taken a burgeoning underworld into the thrilling, transgressive point of cultural dialogue that drag finds itself in 2019.

Guilty Pleasures, too, will travel their unapologetic, endlessly entertaining club-night from their iconic monthly KOKO residency to the celebration. Mighty Hoopla will also welcome nights including Cocoa Butter Club (burlesque, comedy, and music celebrating performers of colour), The Grand (Clapham’s premiere pop experience) and Hungama (queer culture meets Bollywood in a name loosely translates to ‘chaos’ in Urdu).

Only at Mighty Hoopla are punters as likely to stumble into Massaoke (indie singalongs set to a live-band) or pop-up-turned-Camberwell-staple The Chateau as they are Barcelona’s fiesta of flamboyance, Pluma, or We Love Pop’s Fascination-helmed floor-fillers.

Hoopla organisers said: “This is, still, just the tip, with an array of familiar and emerging talent set to be announced in the weeks ahead. And it’s this fine balance which is the essence of Mighty Hoopla, the singular festival in which truly anything is possible and truly everyone is welcome.”