Kerri Watt marks her first ever headline UK tour with a Manchester gig at Night and Day at the end of November. The BBC Radio 2 A-listed singer songwriter will perform 14 dates across the UK, kicking off in Derby before performing in Manchester, Liverpool, Leeds, Birmingham, London and her home town, Glasgow. “I’ve spent…
Deal Amitri are set for a 2018 live return, with the Glaswegian band headlining at Manchester’s O2 Apollo in their first run of dates since 2014. The July 2018 tour includes original band members – Justin Currie (vocals, guitar), Iain Harvie (lead guitar), Andy Alston (keys), Kris Dollimore (guitar) and Ashley Soan (drums). Speaking about…
Award winning songwriter Emily Barker comes to Manchester’s Band on the Wall on Friday in support of her solo album Sweet Kind of Blue. Best known as the writer and performer of the award-winning theme to the BBC drama Wallander, Barker grew up in rural Western Australia, falling in love with American roots music. Inspired…
Manchester’s Contact has announced that it will close for a major redevelopment at the end of December 2017. During the closed a year-long programme of performance and participation activities will take place in partner venues across Greater Manchester. For the duration of the £6.75 million renovation, Contact will relocated to the Millennium Powerhouse in Moss…
One the back of 10 years of performances in the UK including two West End seasons, Evita comes to Manchester’s Palace Theatre in December. The captivating show tells the story of Eva Perón, wife of former Argentine dictator Juan Perón. Evita follows Eva’s journey, which ultimately lead her to be heralded as the ‘spiritual leader…
Just over a year after her last Manchester gig, Lucie Silvas returns to the city to perform at the Ruby Lounge alongside Charlie Worsham. One of the finest vocalists and musicians we have heard in a while (as evidenced by her excellent Manchester gig at the Deaf Institute), Lucie Silvas performs four UK shows in…
Manchester’s Royal Northern College of Music has received £1.05 million from the Higher Education Funding Council for England’s Catalyst Fund to establish a significant digital project linking the College with university music departments and professional partners across England. The grant goes a significant way towards meeting the total cost of £2million. The project, RNCM Ensemble+, will…
Manchester’s Central Library will host Company Chameleon’s site-specific production of new dance, music and light art, Illuminate. The after-hours experience has been commissioned by Library Live and will see the Manchester dance company take audiences to the past, present and future in an exciting and original promenade piece of dance theatre. Beginning outside of the…
Pale Waves have announced a run of Spring 2018 UK and Europe dates including a headline Manchester gig at Gorilla. The dates will be Pale Waves’ biggest to date and come as the band tour North America through November and December. The Manchester four-piece have recently released their new single New Year’s Eve, the title…
Uchenna Dance brings three fierce, clever and witty female characters to Manchester’s Contact as they take us through stories of community, heritage, womanhood, friendship, and most importantly … hair. The Head Wrap Diaries, presented by Uchenna Dance, is an interactive show set in a hair salon. Mixing dance, theatre and storytelling with a good dose…
