HISTORIC Little Germany will rock with a music festival featuring more than 30 acts over the Bank Holiday weekend.

The Shuttle Shuffle Festival, at Sorm Studios from August 25-26, features new and established acts. The theme is ‘inclusion’, and the line-up also includes performers with learning disabilities.

Festival-goers are asked to bring food donations for Bradford Metropolitan Food Bank, supported by the Telegraph & Argus this summer. And funds raised will go to the White Ribbon Campaign, tackling violence against women.

Festival director Tim Wilson described it as “Bradford’s biggest party”. Bands will appear on three stages, and there will be music workshops, samba lessons, craft and food stalls and a children’s area. Local singer-songwriters Tony Levy and Nick Toczek will compere.

“We have found that artists want to come here to play the Shuttle Shuffle,” said Tim. “We’re chuffed to have all-girl six-pieceThe Seamonsters, playing in Bradford for the first time. And The Negatives, Bradford’s first punk group, celebrate their 40th year. The line-up is as much about emerging talent as established performers. We pride ourselves on a diverse bill; we have an African drum workshop, graffiti artists, a DJ workshop and performances by young adults with learning disabilities, and Salsa Smiths, the longest-running salsa classes in the North."

Musician Ben 'Buddy' Slack will talk about the Swan Song Project, giving people in end-of-life care chance to write and record their own song, and other events include a workshop Ben Blue Waters of Bradford Blues Club, interactive storytelling for young children by actor and teacher Sue Dyde, and guitar, DJ and drum workshops by a team from Sorm, (School of Rock and Media), a recording and rehearsal studio for musicians, bands and solo artists, which also provides sessions for people with disabilities. The Shuttle Art Gallery will display work by Bradford photographer Martin Singleton, looking at the grassroots music scene, and Shuttle Cinema highlights themes of inclusion and equality. There will also be an open mic and jamming space.

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