TRADITIONAL FOLK & ACOUSTIC CONCERTS IN MANCHESTER
TRADITIONAL FOLK & ACOUSTIC CONCERTS IN MANCHESTER
Most Popular Traditional Folk & Acoustic Concerts in Manchester
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Thursday 23 - Thursday 30 January 2025
★★★ Timothee Chalamet is brilliant and believable in James Mangold's conventional Dylan biopic. ~ BBC. --- Timothee Chalamet stars as Bob Dylan in the ballad of a true original. A Film by James Mangold. Co-starring Edward Norton, El...
Brown Wimpenny
Thursday 23 January 2025
Brown Wimpenny are an 11-piece folk ensemble based in south Manchester. Described by The Quietus as a source of "energy, eccentricity, communion and joy"; they weave traditional music, from the British Isles and beyond, into a web of jigs, ...
Nearly Dan - The Spirit & Sound of Steely Dan
Saturday 25 January 2025
Less tribute and more homage, Nearly Dan is saviour to the growing legions of Dan fans, desperate to hear the meticulously crafted grooves and allusive lyrical style of Donald Fagen & Walter Becker. Nearly Dan's approach is faithful, thou...
Josh Rouse
Saturday 25 January 2025
Known for his introspective folk-pop and worldly perspective, Josh Rouse has built a reputation as a critically acclaimed and perennially reliable singer/songwriter. Born in Nebraska, moved to various cities throughout his childhood and ...
Burns Night with Outside the Box + Trixxi Corish
Saturday 25 January 2025
Celebrating Robert Burns with Scottish infused folk, alt. country, bluegrass and other musical shenanigans. Scottish infused folk, alt. country, bluegrass and other musical shenanigans. Expect foot tapping tunes and glorious three-part harm...
John Craigie
Sunday 26 January 2025
John Craigie has mastered the art of creating live shows that feel more like intimate conversations than performances. Infusing humour, wit, and poignant storytelling, his shows are a space where audience members feel like old friends. Whet...
Soul Asylum
Tuesday 28 January 2025
One of the most successful American Alternative Rock bands of the 1990s, Minneapolis's Soul Asylum's folk-influenced grunge beared the roots of the Country-Rock revival with their triple-Platinum certified Grave Dancers Union album, whi...
Julian Taylor
Thursday 30 January 2025
After 25 years in music, building an unimpeachable reputation as a truly independent artist and entrepreneur, Julian Taylor now owns his legacy. It's rare in this era to see an artist build slowly and reach a new level of widespread acclaim...
Keith James - The Songs of Nick Drake
Thursday 30 January 2025
Keith James performs a haunting and immaculately crafted concert of the songs of Nick Drake, one of the most revered and loved of all this country's Singer/Songwriters. Two decades have now passed since singer/guitarist Keith James became t...
Joshua Radin
Thursday 30 January 2025
Joshua Radin emerged in 2004 as an empathetic, engaging, and often enthralling troubadour. Over the years, he's tallied north of 1 billion streams, moved 1 million-plus albums worldwide, and scored a gold certification for the single "I'd R...
The Johnny Cash Roadshow
Saturday 1 February 2025
The only show to be endorsed by the Cash Family, the Johnny Cash Roadshow is simply the biggest and best celebration of Johnny Cash in the world today. Award winning front man, Clive John, dedicates this year to a 50th anniversary tour of t...
B O D I E S
Saturday 1 February 2025
Berlin-based vocal ensemble B O D I E S is the creation of Australian folk pop singer, songwriter and producer Kat Frankie. On stage with seven brilliant singers and no instruments, Frankie presents an a cappella performance about what it m...
Virginia Kettle's Rolling Folk
Saturday 1 February 2025
Eclectic folk music, all at once brash and ethereal, raw and refined. Virginia Kettle - singer/songwriter, guitarist....
Steve 'n' Seagulls
Wednesday 5 February 2025
It could've been a cold winter day or warm summer night in Finland - but it was around the year 2010. Someone came up with an idea to combine bluegrass, Finnish folk and rock/metal music. The outcome was and has since been Steve'n'Seagulls....
Dropkick Murphys
Thursday 6 February 2025
Ken Casey's American Celtic punk band formed in Massachusetts in 1996 and continue to deliver music that punches you square in the face, scoring numerous Top 10 albums in the USA, as well as the Platinum-selling single "I'm Shipping Up...
James Bay
Friday 7 February 2025
Big dreams are often born in small towns, and James Bay is one such dreamer who dared to make his come true. The three-time GRAMMY Award-nominated and BRIT Award-winning multi-platinum Hitchin-born folk pop troubadour is on course to captiv...
Corey Kent
Friday 7 February 2025
Texas country rock star Corey Kent topped the Country Radio charts with his 2023 breakthrough hit, "Wild as Her", amassing over 300 million streams and reaching platinum status. ...
Kawala
Saturday 8 February 2025
Starting their musical journey while studying in Leeds, North London duo Jim (vocals) and Dan (acoustic guitar, vocals) quickly developed a distinctive sound as an acoustic indie-folk act, finding inspiration from a range of musical styles....
Billy Lockett
Sunday 9 February 2025
Northampton piano man has been playlisted on Radio 1, supported Lewis Capaldi, Electric Light Orchestra, Birdy, Lana del Rey and KT Tunstall, and performed on Made In Chelsea, James Corden's Late Late Show. He has written, recorded, perform...
Warren Zeiders
Tuesday 11 February 2025
Pennsylvania country music singer and songwriter Warren Zeiders found fame posting covers on TikTok before his original songs, including "Ride the Lightning", gained over 500 million views. He signed with Warner Records and re-released "Rid...
A Tribute To The Carpenters
Thursday 13 February 2025
It's time to get over that rainbow and make the smallest of dreams come true as the Entertainers present A Tribute to the Carpenters, featuring Gordy Marshall's The British Carpenters and starring the fantastic Sally Creedon as Karen Carpen...
Oh My God It's The Church
Thursday 13 February 2025
The Lord may work in mysterious ways, but there is nothing mysterious about the rise of the phenomenon that is - Oh My God! It's The Church. Original, outrageous, irreverent, and endlessly entertaining, OMGITC have had a monumental few ye...
Anna B Savage
Thursday 13 February 2025
A sense of rootedness is at the heart of Anna B Savage?s third record You and i are Earth, a record that is as much about healing as it is an unbowed sense of curiosity, and, more simply, ?a love letter to a man and to Ireland?. Following o...
Amble
Friday 14 February 2025
3 piece contemporary folk based ensemble formed over a mutual gra for the music they curate. Hailing from the midlands and west of Ireland. ...
Amble
Friday 14 February 2025
3 piece contemporary folk based ensemble formed over a mutual gra for the music they curate. Hailing from the midlands and west of Ireland. ...
James Blunt
Saturday 15 February 2025
James Blunt's 2005 single You're Beautiful catapulted the former British Army officer into the spotlight. The track was the second single from his 11x Platinum-selling debut album Back To Bedlam, and hit the No.1 spot on the official UK...
Nerina Pallot
Saturday 15 February 2025
Having been nominated for an Ivor Novello and Brit Award, Jersey-raised pop rock star Nerina Pallot has had an exciting music career, writing and performing her own pieces alongside working with artists like Kylie Minogue. She scored UK Top...
Mad Dog Mcrea
Saturday 15 February 2025
Mad Dog Mcrea blend a unique mixture of folk rock, pop, gypsy jazz, bluegrass and "shake your ass" music. From self-penned songs of adventure, drinking, love and life, to traditional songs of gypsies, fairies, legless pirates and black flie...
John Haycock & DBH
Saturday 15 February 2025
Two of Todmorden's finest artists team up for a celestial exploration between light, sound and setting with live music, visuals and talks in a sensory exploration of the historic building. John Haycock (Kora, Clarinet + electronics) and DBH...
High On Life - Single Launch Manchester
Sunday 16 February 2025
Emilia Quinn unveils her newest single 'High On Life' with full band single launch party in Manchester. With support from Jake O'Neill and TBA...
Oliver Anthony
Wednesday 19 February 2025
In August 2023, Hank Williams-influenced Virgina country-folk singer-songwriter Christopher Lunsford - who performs under his grandfather's name "Oliver Anthony" in homage to the Depression era in which he lived - became the first artist ...
Calum Bowie
Friday 21 February 2025
Calum Bowie is an Edinburgh based singer-songwriter from Banchory in Aberdeenshire whose presence among the Scottish music scene has grown exponentially, with his captivating melodies and authentic lyrics fuelling his uplifting music, his c...
John Otway
Friday 21 February 2025
From the age of 9, the cult Buckinghamshire folk punkster knew he wanted to be a pop star. But even at that young age, having listened to his sister's Beatles and Stones records, he knew he would never be able to do what they do. However, w...
Keith James - The Songs of Nick Drake
Saturday 22 February 2025
Keith James performs a haunting and immaculately crafted concert of the songs of Nick Drake, one of the most revered and loved of all this country's Singer/Songwriters. Two decades have now passed since singer/guitarist Keith James became t...
Shovel Dance Collective
Saturday 22 February 2025
Nurturing a passion for the folk musics of the British Isles and Ireland with experimental tendencies, London's Shovel Dance Collective explore the ways in which traditional music holds queer histories, proto-feminist narratives and the voi...
McGoldrick, McCusker & Doyle
Sunday 23 February 2025
Michael McGoldrick, John McCusker and John Doyle. Name a more iconic trio... I'll wait. First jamming together as teenagers, a quarter century later these Celtic folk heroes are still combining forces to share music with the world. Combinin...
Carly Pearce
Monday 24 February 2025
2018's Radio Disney The Freshest! Country Best New Artist winner and a 2019 ACM Awards New Female Artist of the Year and iHeartRadio Music Awards Best New Country Artist nominee, Kentucky's Carly Pearce continues to be a loyal advocate of C...
Lola Young
Tuesday 25 February 2025
Croydon singer-songwriter Lola Young was nominated for the Brit Award for Rising Star in 2021. She was chosen to cover the 1980s hit "Together in Electric Dreams" for the John Lewis Christmas advert. The following year, she placed fourth i...
