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St Osyth Summer Sounds.

Join us Saturday 30 & Sunday 31 August 2025 at the stunning St Osyth Priory for two days of incredible live music, mouth-watering chef demos, family activities, and local food and drink. With performances from top UK artists and community events, it’s the perfect way to celebrate summer in Tendring.

Upcoming events

Events
Russell Maliphant’s Vortex
Jan 1
Russell Maliphant’s Vortex
Sea-Change
Apr 7
Sea-Change
Boy’s Khaya
Apr 7
Boy’s Khaya
Cubitt Sessions Digital During Lockdown
Apr 7
Cubitt Sessions Digital During Lockdown
While You Are Here
Apr 7
While You Are Here
Up My Street - During Lockdown
Apr 7
Up My Street - During Lockdown

News

News
WE WON: London Sports Award
WE WON: London Sports Award

We won the London Sports Award for Community Impact.

Join King’s Cross Summer Sounds Community Choir
Join King’s Cross Summer Sounds Community Choir

We're looking for singers of all abilities to help create moments of joy and wonder for audiences with profound and multiple learning disabilities (PMLD).

KING’S CROSS SUMMER SOUNDS RETURNS FOR 2025, CELEBRATING 10 ELECTRIFYING YEARS OF FREE MUSIC, DANCE AND COMMUNITY
KING’S CROSS SUMMER SOUNDS RETURNS FOR 2025, CELEBRATING 10 ELECTRIFYING YEARS OF FREE MUSIC, DANCE AND COMMUNITY

Arts Trust, producer of St Osyth Summer Sounds, announces - London’s highly anticipated FREE music and performance festival, King’s Cross Summer Sounds is making a grand return this summer, marking its 10th anniversary with an extraordinary lineup of the best performances from the past decade, plus unforgettable anniversary events.

Summer in the Park returns for 2025
Summer in the Park returns for 2025

Arts Trust, producer of King’s Cross Summer Sounds, has announced that Summer in the Park, the free festivals in the beautiful parks and squares of Greenwich and Bexley, will return this year following a hugely impactful 2024 edition.

  • Well done to everyone involved in running and funding this wonderful free festival! Keep doing this!

    EFDSS - Katy Spicer

  • Great to have an accessible and free event that supports people’s love of music

    King’s Cross Summer Sounds Audience Member

  • Great day of activity for the kids with culture, music and fun

    Summer in the Park Audiance Member

  • this is one of the most amazing experiences my daughter has ever experienced

    Fire Songs: PMLD Audience Member

View fullsize King's Cross Summer Sounds: REPLAY with Samsung. From 18–24 August, you can relive the magic of the festival with Replay with Samsung, a week-long opportunity to listen back to specially selected moments completely free at Samsung KX in King&r
View fullsize Check out Brimstone - walking the streets of King’s Cross Summer Sounds. If we are lucky he will be back with us a few times today! Folk Family Sunday!
View fullsize Folk Family Sunday - at Kings Cross Summer Sounds. Sunday 17 Aug: 12:30pm - 6pm Enjoy an afternoon of glorious, diverse, and upbeat folk music as the English Folk Dance and Song Society brings King’s Cross alive with rhythm, movement, and ma
View fullsize Leading Young British Opera Singers - at King's Cross Summer Sounds. A unique evening of opera, musical theatre and song with four of the country’s most exciting young singers, associated with English National Opera. Ellie Laugharne (Soprano
View fullsize Loved King’s Cross Summer Sounds? Why not make your next adventure St Osyth Summer Sounds: Music & Food Festival! Escape to the coast for a day out in the country during the last weekend of the school holidays. Enjoy world-class music, s
View fullsize What an amazing night we had with Brass Rascals this week. If you missed out - why don't you come and see YolanDa Brown this evening, 6:30pm at Coal Drops Yard.
View fullsize YolanDa Brown: A Bob Marley tribute - at King's Cross Summer Sounds Friday 15 Aug: 6:30pm Inspired by trailblazing tribute releases from artists like Monty Alexander and Charlie Hunter, YolanDa fuses jazz, reggae, and soul to reimagine classics suc
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View fullsize Triptic & Alice Zawaczki - at King's Cross Summer Sounds. Thursday 14 Aug: 6:30pm - 8:30pm Three members of Scotland's brilliantly unclassifiable world/folk band Moishe's Bagel come together in a new project. Dramatic tango meets joyful klezme
View fullsize Brass Rascals - at King's Cross Summer Sounds. Wednesday 13 Aug: 6:30pm - 8:30pm Drum and bass. Jungle. Garage. Gospel. Grime. Bassline. Jazz. All played live by The Intergalactic Brass Rascals. Think Rebirth Brass Band meets Rinse FM. Think secon
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View fullsize Joe Stilgoe - at King's Cross Summer Sounds. Tuesday 12 Aug: 6:30pm - 8:30pm The youngest of five, with two musician parents, including TV personality Richard Stilgoe, Joe has carved out his own path in jazz and beyond. With nine albums—five
View fullsize Queer Britain & Sounds Queer Monday 11 Aug 6:30pm - 8:30pm Queer Britain, the UK's first and only LGBTQ+ museum, is teaming up with Sounds Queer, a music platform that champions diverse sounds and voices from the LGBTQIA+ spectrum, to bring you
View fullsize Jazz Inspired Family Sunday. 10th Aug 1pm - 6pm Join us for an unforgettable, family-friendly Sunday of music and inspiration, brought to you by Voices Radio and Abram Wilson. Voices Radio is a groundbreaking community platform dedicated to champ
View fullsize Back by popular demand (TONIGHT ONLY), this Summer Sounds favourite is returning once more to showcase the very best that musical theatre has to offer. Join stars of the stage Daniel Boys (Hamilton, Avenue Q, Rent and Spamalot), Oliver Savile (Pret
View fullsize From an 11-minute hip hop film directed by Danny Boyle… to our annual programme of 14 free summer festivals in parks and squares — our journey with Sundae PR has been nothing short of incredible. Together, we’ve: Launched Emancipa
View fullsize New Feature: How We’re Reigniting the Village Fête for Community Renewal Delighted to share this recent feature in Festival Insights, where Martin Collins, CEO of Arts Trust, explains how our hyperlocal festivals are more than just week
View fullsize London’s much-loved free music festival, Summer Sounds, is back at King’s Cross from 7 - 17 August. This year, we’re celebrating Summer Sounds 10th anniversary with some of the most popular acts from the last 10 years across 11 day
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