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A purpose-built centre for international contemporary art, theatre, film and books.
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Enjoy concerts ranging from classical and jazz through to world and popular music.
Manchester Central is an award winning, globally renowned venue in the heart of one of…
Established by artists in 1984, Castlefield Gallery is Manchester’s first public…
A popular calling point for touring productions and concerts, including big-name West End…
The Grade 2 listed Great Northern building, a former railway goods distribution warehouse…
Showcasing internationally renowned and Designated collections of fine art, decorative…
The magnificently refurbished Central Library is ‘not only the city’s study, but also the…
In the 90’s, The Crystal Maze was one of the UK’s favourite television shows. Now it’s…
Built in 1877, Manchester Town Hall is a Victorian, neo-gothic classic and home of the…
A popular calling point for touring productions and concerts, including big-name West End…
Home to the world’s oldest surviving passenger railway station, and the world’s first…
An outdoor amphitheatre style venue in Manchester's city centre, home to the annual…
Gothic heart of Manchester city centre. Home to the town hall and many seasonal events.
HOME, MANCHESTERA purpose-built centre for international contemporary art, theatre, film and books.
O2 Ritz, MANCHESTERThis legendary nightclub and live music venue has been drawing crowds for generations.
Manchester Folk Festival 2021/ Festival Club (Saturday)See three of the best emerging English folk acts in HOME, the vibrant hub venue of Manchester Folk Festival. Tickets are available exclusively to people purchasing tickets for another MFF event on Saturday.
Manchester Folk Festival 2021/ The English Fiddle EnsembleFour of England’s finest traditional fiddle players, Bryony Griffith, Jim Boyle, Ross Grant and Rosie Butler-Hall, have joined forces to create The English Fiddle Ensemble with the aim of allowing their audience to feel the bite and lift of four fiddles resonating to create joyous harmonies and…
Manchester Folk Festival 2021/ The Futureheads plus supportHaving first emerged at the start of the ’00s amidst a burgeoning swarm of guitar bands, the Sunderland quartet, with their proud regional accents and spiky, playful sensibilities, stuck out from the off. Over the following decade The Futureheads – comprised of vocalists and guitarists Barry Hyde…
Manchester Folk Festival 2021/ BanterBanter are: Simon Care on melodeon, Nina Zella on keyboards and vocals and Tim Walker on drums, percussion, and brass. They are rooted in English traditional music but incorporate influences of pop, jazz, soul and big band sounds.
Manchester Folk Festival 2021/ O'Hooley & TidowPerforming together for over 10 years, much loved Yorkshire folk duo Belinda O’Hooley and Heidi Tidow were propelled into newfound fame when their song ‘Gentleman Jack’ was chosen as the theme tune for Sally Wainwright’s hit BBC1/HBO drama of the same name.
Manchester Folk Festival 2021/ Sam Lee plus supportSam Lee plays a unique role in the British music scene. A highly inventive and original singer, folk song interpreter, passionate conservationist, song collector and successful creator of live events. Alongside his organisation, The Nest Collective, Sam has shaken up the music scene breaking…
Manchester Folk Festival 2021/ The Gigspannner Big Band plus support"With the Gigspanner Big Band, Peter Knight has assembled a group of musicians intent on making some of the most important and exhilarating art ever to sit under the banner of folk music" FRUK "Amazing…a force to be reckoned with – they storm every stage they walk on" Mike Harding The The…
Manchester Folk Festival 2021/ Festival Club (Friday)See three of the best emerging English folk acts in HOME, the vibrant hub venue of Manchester Folk Festival. Tickets are available exclusively to people purchasing tickets for another MFF event on Friday.
Manchester Folk Festival 2021/ SheelanagigSheelanagig for over a decade have brought their array of foot-stomping folk tunes to audiences across the globe. A quintet with a well-stocked armoury of stringed instruments – guitar, fiddle, double bass – added with the rhythmic energy of flute and drums and a bagful of joint-jumping tunes,…
Manchester Folk Festival 2021/ The Breath plus special guests Hannah James & Toby KuhnThe Breath is guitarist Stuart McCallum and singer/flautist Ríoghnach Connolly. Ríoghnach (pron. Rea-nuh) is Armagh-born and Manchester based. Known for her work with Afro Celt Sound System and Honeyfeet, she met Stuart on the city’s gig circuit several years ago. An unlikely pairing though it was…
Manchester Folk Festival 2021/ Jesca Hoop plus supportCalifornia-born but now based in Manchester, Jesca Hoop is what you’d call a musician’s musician. Discovered by Tom Waits, and brought on tour by Peter Gabriel to sing in his band, it was a phone call from Elbow’s Guy Garvey that saw her move to the UK. Her recent album “Stonechild”, produced by…
Manchester Folk Festival 2021/ Kathryn Tickell & The Darkening plus supportMusicians from Northumberland, Scotland and England invoke the dark, powerful, shamanic sounds of Ancient Northumbria and broadcast them to the modern world.
Manchester Folk Festival 2021/ Festival Club (Thursday)See three of the best emerging English folk acts in HOME, the vibrant hub venue of Manchester Folk Festival. Tickets are available exclusively to people purchasing tickets for another MFF event on Thursday.
Manchester Folk Festival 2021/ KabantuThe award winning Kabantu are a collective from Manchester who unravel new marriages of music from around the globe to celebrate the space where different cultures collaborate.
Manchester Folk Festival 2021/ Lady NadeHot on the heels of her UK Americana Award nomination Lady Nade is soaring into summer 2021 with her third album release ‘Willing’.
Manchester Folk Festival 2021/ John Bramwell And The Full Harmonic Convergence plus supportJohn Bramwell is one of the UK’s most unique and talented singer-song writers and has been performing as a musician for over 30 years.
Manchester Folk Festival 2021/ Spiers & Boden plus supportDescribed by The Guardian as ‘the finest instrumental duo on the traditional scene’, the multi award-winning duo of John Spiers and Jon Boden rocketed onto the scene in 2001.
In 2011, after 10 years of successful touring, they headlined their own star-studded show at London’s Shepherd’s Bush Empire…
Manchester Folk Festival 2021/ Sam CarterIn the eleven years since winning Best Newcomer at the 2010 BBC Radio 2 Folk Awards, Sam Carter has earned a reputation for vivid, narrative-driven songwriting and captivating live performances. Having made a spell-binding appearance on Later… with Jools Holland in 2012, Sam has gone on to tour…
Manchester Folk Festival 2021/ Luke ConcannonLuke Concannon (ex-Nizlopi #1 singles act and credited as one of Ed Sheeran’s main inspirations) plays his first UK show in over 3 years. Luke’s mesmerising live shows are legendary, performing his ‘direct-from-the-heart’ songs with unrivalled passion and commitment.
Manchester Folk Festival 2021/ Jack RutterJack Rutter is an outstanding young folk singer, guitarist and multi-instrumentalist from West Yorkshire.
Manchester Folk Festival 2021/ Harbottle & Jonas TrioDevon duo Harbottle & Jonas have established themselves as one of the most exciting prospects on the folk circuit today, combining a love of the richness of traditional folk with their own original and powerful songwriting.
Manchester Folk Festival 2021/ The Trials of CatoFormed in Beirut, the band returned to the UK in 2016 and set to performing tirelessly up and down the country, leading to BBC Radio 2’s Mark Radcliffe hailing them as “one of the real discoveries on the folk circuit in recent times.” Their debut album, Hide and Hair, gained attention in national…
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