Summer Sounds 

Cliffe Castle Park, Keighley, BD20 6LH) 

Saturday 2 & Sunday 3 August 2025 | 12pm – 9pm 

£15 day tickets / £25 weekend tickets (concessions available) 

Tickets on sale now 

As part of its landmark year as UK City of Culture, Bradford 2025 presents Summer Sounds, a vibrant new two-day music festival in the lush surroundings of Cliffe Castle Park, Keighley, taking place Saturday 2 and Sunday 3 August 2025. 

Saturday, 2 August, curated in collaboration with South Asian culture and arts platform Dialled In, will be headlined by the inimitable Asha Puthli – the pioneering Indian singer-songwriter, producer, and actress, whose genre-defying blend of spacey jazz, disco, and psychedelia earned cult status around the world. 

Co-produced by Dialled In, Bradford 2025 and Serious, Summer Sounds celebrates international pioneers, boundary-pushing talent, and local heroes, bridging generations, genres and continents across two days of live music, community, and culture. Expect a celebration featuring singer-songwriters, soul divas, and hypnotic sitar stylings, as well as renowned DJs and producers blending afrobeat, drum ‘n’ bass, and more. 

Saturday 2 August – curated with Dialled In 

Saturday, 2 August, curated in collaboration with the South Asian culture and arts platform Dialled In, will be headlined by the inimitable Asha Puthli – the pioneering Indian-American singer-songwriter, producer, and actress whose cosmic blend of jazz, disco, soul, and Indian classical music has earned her cult status across continents. After relocating to New York in the early ‘70s, she successfully auditioned to sing for free jazz visionary Ornette Coleman, went on to appear in films by Merchant Ivory and Louis Malle, and soon became a fixture of the Studio 54 scene – rubbing shoulders with NYC art and culture titans including Warhol, Blahnik and the downtown avant-garde. 

Puthli’s fluid, honeyed voice and fearless experimentation helped define a series of dazzling solo albums that still ripple through modern music, having been sampled by the likes of The Notorious B.I.G., 50 Cent, and The Neptunes, and revered by diggers and DJs alike. Puthli’s cult reputation continues to grow – don’t miss this unmissable UK set. 

She’s joined by the mystical improvisations of legendary Balochi Benju instrumentalist Ustad Noor Bakhsh, and pioneers of the contemporary British Asian music scene Metz n Trix. 

ganavya brings her transcendental melding of South Asian classical music with spiritual jazz, Fun’Da’Mental’s Inder Goldfinger will present a back-to-back set with Silverfinger Singh, and BBC Asian Network DJs Manara and Kizzi are also set to bring the vibes. Expect an immersive day of rhythm, energy and radical connection through sound. 

Sunday 3 August – curated by Bradford 2025 and Serious 

On Sunday multi-award-winning musician, composer and producer Nitin Sawhney takes the stage, along with pop-soul singer Poppy Ajudha, and spoken word powerhouse Joshua Idehen. Mighty Leeds 10-piece TC & the Groove Family blend afrobeat, breakbeat, jazz, highlife and hip hop, as well as Bradford-born singer and rapper Kenzo Jae, mixing indie and punk with old school hip hop.  

Soul singer and superstar-in-waiting Summer Pearl performs, and there’ll be music from the likes of Indo-jazz pioneer Sarathy Korwar and alt-soul singer Tawiah – as well as DJ sets from MUSYS and DJ Lubi.  

Summer Sounds is co-produced by Bradford 2025 UK City of Culture, Dialled in and Serious. 

Day and Weekend tickets are on sale now. 

Bradford 2025 UK City of Culture is delivered by Bradford Culture Company, a charity supported by public investment from HM Government, Bradford Metropolitan District Council, West Yorkshire Combined Authority and through National Lottery funding from Arts Council England, The National Lottery Heritage Fund, The National Lottery Community Fund, Spirit of 2012, British Film Institute and a number of trusts, foundations and corporate sponsors.