Join us for our daytime Pride event, which will include activity stalls from Sew Queer and Hive Youth as well as live entertainment.
2pm DJ Sadie Grooves
Liverpool based DJ serving up the spirit of Ibiza with funky disco house, soulful grooves and feel good classics.
2:30 Welcome Speeches
Lotta Mass
Lotta Mass is a fierce burlesque performer who celebrates fat, queer joy and has been involved in burlesque and cabaret for over ten years. They practice radical self love in a world that constantly tells you to be less. Lotta is also the producer of Reclaimed Means Business. The only event of its kind that brings together business and burlesque. Lotta is also known for their award winning activism challenging fatphobia and advocating for intersectional inclusion.
Jasmine Kennedy
Jasmine Kennedy is an acoustic singer/songwriter who sings from the heart; her lyrics a collection of throwaway observations and bittersweet tales which possess a remarkable power to stun an audience into silence. She has been championed by BBC introducing, toured and shared stages with Grace Petrie, Billie Marten, and Michael Kiwanuka and racked up over 8 million Streams. Potentially the next Tracy Chapman, this young musician has immense talent and an endearing charm.
3pm
ZOLATEC
Breakbeats stutter in dark soundscapes, cut with ethereal vocals, dreamy polyrhythms, and shoegaze textures. Speaking from an underrepresented South Asian-Caribbean perspective, ZOLATEC explores existentialism, exclusion, and heartbreak, with an emphasis on authenticity in sound design.
Them There Cowboys
Them There Cowboys bring queer, energetic, twangin’ tunes from the old west that never was. Lurching from sublime to ridiculous, with yee-haws and haw-yees all the way through, heart melters, booty shakers and fist raisers guaranteed. You ain’t never heard no cuntry music like this before!
4pm
Mazikeen
Mazikeen is a Fierce force of chaos, this Huddersfield-born devilish Diva commands every stage she touches! With enough charisma to make the heavens nervous, Mazikeen transforms every performance into a spectacle of power, passion and pure drag excellence. Whether she’s lip-syncing or turning a look, one thing is certain: when Mazikeen arrives all eyes and souls belong to her.
Rio
Rio has been performing in drag for over 10 years, mixing live songs with pop culture references and powerhouse vocals. They have appeared up and down the country at both cabarets and prides including London, Edinburgh, Manchester and Nottingham. They also appeared on tattoo fixers and have a career in makeup artistry and a growing TikTok following.
Iyve Brattyy
From Haus’ Of Morningstar, it’s Iyve Brattyy, the Iconic Pierced Princess from Huddersfield, known for serving fashion and looks, she’s a living breathing Brats dolls ready to lip sync the haus down boots !
5pm
Ding Frisby
Ding Frisby is an intergalactic, guitar-wielding drag-thing writing songs for queer aliens everywhere. Inspired by the radical camp of classic sci-fi villains, they use glam-punk anthems and comedy tunes to tell shape-shifting stories of life on Earth. Originally crash-landed in Huddersfield, they’ve loved gigging across the UK, playing at protests, MCing wrestling matches, sharing their DIY music vids at queer film festivals and hosting Out + Loud open mic since 2019.
Zee Y
Zee is a “poetic comedian” based in West Yorkshire. They use their identity has a queer, trans, Muslim, brown, disabled, neurodivergent, second generation immigrant to tick diversity checkboxes and steal your girl.
Unknown Amazon
Paying homage to the art of classic Drag, sit back, and let Unknown Amazon show you what it really means to be a shape shifter.
6pm Blaque Pride Takeover
House of Blaque is a QTIPOC Kiki Vogue Ballroom House based in Huddersfield and Manchester! They’re bringing a show-stopping trio of acts to headline this year’s Huddersfield Pride.
