This performance has been cancelled. Ticket holders will be notified. A performance of new music with pianist Kate Halsall, from her 2021 album release Breathe in Me. Alongside music for piano and harmoniums by Ailís Ní Ríain, Diana Salazar and Rose Dodd, the show features very special guests, the soprano Sarah Dacey and composer/performer of […]
Manchester Contemporary Youth Opera presents Catastrophic Software Error. Two software engineers have made a mistake. Over drinks, tensions escalate, and schemes are hatched. A fifteen-minute opera that didn’t exist ten days ago. Show times: 15:30 16:30 18:30 19:30 About the MCYO Collaborative Opera Lab: Our creative team of young and emerging artists with diverse skills […]
Come and join James Oldham for an evening of all the songs that he wrote through lockdown at the incredible Anthony Burgess Foundation in Manchester. James will be reciting songs live on the grand piano, electric guitar and acoustic guitar for your enjoyment. Tickets are £10 and there are only 80 available! You can follow […]
Kantos Chamber Choir presents The Witch Trials… a mirror to our callous hearts. The infamous stories of the trials, torture and execution of witches are surely just abominable tales of a bygone era? Yet, with each and every unspeakable act we witness in the modern world, perhaps the Witch Trials tell us just as much about […]
Field and Dyke is a project quite unlike any other. This highly original collaboration sees BBC Radio 2 Folk Award winner Greg Russell and historian and musician Danny Pedler take a unique approach to presenting the social landscape around us, as they explore life in 21st century Britain through innovative music-making. It all began with […]
Group Listening’s first album, Clarinet & Piano: Selected Works, Vol.1, was a haunting, reflective and lovingly considered selection box of musical reworkings. It featured reimagined tracks by the likes of Arthur Russell, Brian Eno and Robert Wyatt. But it was also much more than that. In making their own record of reimagined musical works, the […]
Give your family a musical experience to remember with David Gibb’s Family Jukebox. Join David and his magical music Jukebox as he takes you on a trip through his hilarious and often surreal imagination, where wolves roam the school corridors, dragons live under the bed and teddy bears dance the night away at the disco. […]
Fiona Bevan is a singer and a hit songwriter. She had a number 1 album with Kylie Minogue and has worked with Lewis Capaldi, Matthew E. White and Natalie Prass, Ed Sheeran, Tom Walker, Steps, Aurora, Dan from Bastille and many more. Her collaboration with Ed Sheeran, ‘Little Things’ – became a number 1 hit […]
Odd, unconventional melodies, poetic, sophisticated song-writing and the bewitching clarity of Kent-born, Canada-based Lucy Farrell’s voice are made elegant with sparse, careful accompaniment on tenor guitar and occasionally viola, carving out a unique niche for an artist at the forefront of contemporary English folk music. Immersed in folk culture and traditions from birth via her […]
Jackie Oates is an English Folk Musician, Singer, Performer and Educator. Jackie lives in Oxfordshire with her young family. After 17 years and seven solo albums Jackie Oates is a central figure in the accomplished, informed and stylistically individual English traditional music scene that began in the early 2000s and continues to thrive. Regarded as […]