A crowd of people at a club night, in black and white. A crowd of people at a club night, in black and white.

2 Aug 2025

Summer Sounds: Saturday

Day one of our two-day festival of music in Cliffe Castle Park.

Event Details
Date 2 Aug 2025
Times From midday
Location Cliffe Castle Park
Ages Under 16s must be accompanied by an adult
Access
  • BSL interpreted

Our Cliffe Castle music weekender kicks off with an immersive day of rhythm, energy and radical connection through sound.

Day one of Summer Sounds, Bradford 2025’s music weekender, gets under way.

Expect ganayva’s soulful sounds, Panjabi rave aces Jawani Nights and the bang-bang sounds of Dhol Academy.

Acts across two stages include:

  • Metz n Trix, pioneers of the contemporary British Asian music scene
  • ganayva, one of the hottest acts on the scene, blending spiritual jazz and South Asian devotional music
  • Ustad Noor Bakhsh, legendary Pakistani maestro of the Balochi benji
  • Jasmine Jethwa’s folk-tinged alternative pop
  • Inder Goldfinger x SilverFinger Singh, father-son duo pairing the legendary producer (Fun-Da-Mental et al) with the singer and BBC Radio Leeds presenter
  • Dhol Academy, drumming kingpins since 1994

…Plus Panjabi rave promoters Jawani Nights, BBC Asian Network’s DJ Kizzi, Rinse FM’s Arthi, deep club cuts from DJ Manara, Nepalese producer–DJ YZYN, Bassline MC S Dog and more to be announced.

It’s all curated for Bradford 2025 by Dialled In, longstanding champions of the South Asian underground.

Weekend tickets

Tickets are just £15 for the day, or £25 for the full weekend.

Add full price tickets for Summer Sounds: Saturday and Summer Sounds: Sunday to your basket and the weekend ticket discount will automatically apply when you check out.

Discount only available on full price tickets. Offer applies once for every pair of Saturday and Sunday tickets you buy.

Upgrade to the weekend offer

Already booked a ticket for Sunday and want to upgrade to the full weekend offer? Contact ticketing@bradford2025.co.uk to upgrade and enjoy two days of music.

Credits
Curated by Dialled In.

Saturday tickets →

  • BSL =  British Sign Language Interpreted
A colourful graphic image to represent Summer Sounds.

Summer Sounds

A new two-day global music festival.

2-3 Aug 2025, Cliffe Castle Park

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