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2-3 Aug 2025

Summer Sounds

A new two-day global music festival.

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Shades on! Soak up the sun at Summer Sounds, our music weekender across two stages in Cliffe Castle Park.

Summer Sounds is Bradford 2025’s very own music festival – a two-day spectacular under the West Yorkshire sun.

We’re presenting a stellar array of acts across two stages in Cliffe Castle Park:

  • On Saturday experience rhythm, energy and radical connection from the legendary instrumentalist Ustad Noor Bakhsh to pioneers of the contemporary British Asian music scene Metz n Trix.
  • On Sunday Nitin Sawhney and Poppy Ajudha headline a packed line-up of artists whose music knows no boundaries – from singer-songwriters, poets and soul divas.

Mix in creative workshops and the all-important food and drink stalls, and you have the recipe for an unmissable weekend.

Tickets are just £15 for one day or £25 for the full weekend – see full details below and book today…

Tickets

Book a day ticket - or join us for the full weekend.

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Summer Sounds: Saturday

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

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Part of Summer Sounds

Summer Sounds: Sunday

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

Weekend offer

Enjoy two full days of music with our £25 Summer Sounds weekend offer.

Add full price tickets for Summer Sounds: Saturday and Summer Sounds: Sunday to your basket and the weekend 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.

Already booked a ticket for Sunday and want to upgrade to the full weekend offer? Contact [email protected] to upgrade and enjoy two days of music.

 

Getting there

Summer Sounds is in Cliffe Castle Park.

Plan your travel to Cliffe Castle Park using our sustainable travel planner below.

Cliffe Castle Park
Spring Gardens Lane
Keighley
BD20 6LH

 

Playlists

Listen to the sound of the summer with our Saturday and Sunday Spotify playlists.

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