Summer Streets Festival

Check out these great short stories, written by Southwick Neighbourhood Youth Project with writer Alan Parkinson, and read by various members of Southwick REACH community group. They're really good! If anyone wants to come forward with the £3m prize-money for a rap competition, we're all ears... 👍 https://soundcloud.com/user-722245852/… /southwick-to-seaburn

Thanks to so many of you for the kind and positive words about Saturday's festival - it was a real pleasure being part of Tall Ships Races Sunderland this year. Seeing thousands of people watching bands, making things, trying out instruments and enjoying themselves is what it's all about!

If you loved Royal Northern Sinfonia at Summer Streets and want more RNS on your doorstep, head down to Sunderland Minster on Friday 27 July 🎼

As the sun sets on another #summerstreets festival we want to say a huge THANK YOU to the bands, volunteers, crew, workshop leaders, sponsors, presenters and everyone who made this festival happen. Most of all thanks to YOU for coming down and supporting us. We hope you had a great day. ☀️🎉❤️

‪Here we go! ☀️The sun is out and we’ve got a FREE day full of live music, kids activities, workshops, street food and family fun at Seaburn Recreation Park 12pm - 8.30pm for you today! Can’t wait to see you there 🎉‬

We’ve got free shuttle buses running from Southwick to Seaburn today! 🚌

Friday feeling! Swedish jazz star Gunhild Carling is guaranteed to get Summer Streets swinging! Here she is playing Pharrell Williams' Happy on 10 musical instuments, inclduing 3 trupets at the same time!

This Saturday join us at Summer Streets Festival 2018 for amazing music, family fun and the Tall Ships Races Sunderland Parade of Sail, all for FREE! ☀️🎉🚢🥁🎷🎻🎤🍕🍻

Join Royal Northern Sinfonia, orchestra of Sage Gateshead, for a free taste of classical music this Saturday at Summer Streets! https://www.facebook.com/events/551855278 547943/

Spice FM presents OMG Music a North East duo taking the indian Pop world by storm, check out their latest single Lak Patla here and catch them on the main stage this Saturday at 5.40pm https://open.spotify.com/track/4iGwrr0ytN KLcvEtuLTA2p

We've got loads of fun crafts and workshops so come and have a go at tie dye, make your own maracas, learn the glockenspiel, try out henna art andpinhole photography!

The forecast for Saturday is looking sunny! ☀️We've got a well stocked bar from Wylam Brewery for beers 🍻 in the sun alongside some smashing food stalls including Logfired Pizza Company 🍕 Gourmet Hot Dogs 🌭Fausto coffee ☕ and ice cream 🍦

Brand new Sunderland up and comers Roxy Girls take to the Summer Streets stage this Saturday at 12.40pm. Get down early to see them!

North East band The Pale White headline Stage Two at Summer Streets (7 - 7.30pm). Here they are performing on the BBC Music Introducing stage at Glastonbury Festival (official)!

We're so pleased to welcome 🇳🇴 Norwegian band Beezewax! Their new single 'Rainbows' has been going down a storm-have a listen here and come and give them a warm North East welcome on Saturday! goo.gl/h9UjeX

We've got loads of activities for kids and families at Summer Streets including sounds of the sea with Chalk, a pirate and seaside singalong with Tiny Tweeties, comedy for kids with the hilarious Spontaneous Wrecks plus keep your eyes peeled for the Tall Ships Races Sunderland walkabout pirates!

Direct from supporting Beverley Knight at Mouth of the Tyne Festival, Big Red and The Grinners are guaranteed to pump up the jam at this year's Summer Streets Festival!

Since we last saw The Cornshed Sisters at Summer Streets the band have released the acclaimed album Honey & Tar. Their fans include Elton John and Marc Riley BBC 6 music! Here's one of the tracks from the record that you can expect to hear on Saturday!

Summer Streets Festival still needs you! Are you interested in volunteering at the festival this coming Saturday? Send an email to summerstreetsfestival@hotmail.com and we'll send you all the details!

Wonderful event for all the family, looking forward to next year!

Very good going next year

Great get together with family and friends loved it .

Great event. Kids loved it; hope it keeps going every year and gets bigger. �

Great

Fantastic event. Great bands, great activities and a real community vibe. Can't wait for next year!

Well done the organisers of the Summer Streets Festival. The selection of bands was excellent - a wide variety of music that hopefully satisfied most people's tastes. The organisers really did the business on getting the bands to dovetail. There was only one overlap between the band on Stage two when the Cornshed Sisters appeared. Shame, as both bands were really with hearing/seeing! Great to see a variety of activities that kept the younger attendees occupied so that the more mature attendees could make use of the Wylam Stall! Well organised and entertaining, which quite a few people agreed with judging on how many stayed for long periods!