Join us for a special daytime takeover at Lost Horizon’s vibrant yard, where we welcome a powerful Bristol line-up celebrating the traditional, uplifting, and defiant spirit of Carnival music.

In honour of St Pauls Carnival’s 2025 theme ‘Roots of Resistance’, this session pays tribute to the Windrush generation’s legacy and the activism that shaped movements like the Bristol Bus Boycott, now marking its 60th anniversary.

Expect Roots, Reggae, Soca, Calypso, and more, all resonating as rhythms of resilience, sounds of survival, and music as protest. These genres have long served as cultural tools of resistance, uniting communities and giving voice to the oppressed while keeping joy, heritage, and identity alive.

COURT YARD LINE-UP:

Ben Badoo (Live)
Kesh (AnExperience + Pangea)
Rubba
Supplya ft Aloka
Steve Rice
Sojebe

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INSIDE LINE UP:
Lionpulse Soundsystem in session

Delivering the heartbeat of the yard, a soundsystem steeped in unity, and celebration.

This is more than a day party. It’s a gathering of generations, a musical offering to the ancestors, and a call to remember the power of collective action.

Free the bass. Free the people. Roots of Resistance.

Any under 18s accompanied by 21+ adult, max. 3:1 ratio

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