TRADITIONAL FOLK & ACOUSTIC CONCERTS IN MANCHESTER
TRADITIONAL FOLK & ACOUSTIC CONCERTS IN MANCHESTER
Most Popular Traditional Folk & Acoustic Concerts in Manchester
Tue 30 Jun - Sun 5 Jul 2026
RNCM Young Explorers - Fairytales, Folklore and Fantasy
Sunday 12 October 2025
Adventure awaits with an interactive family-friendly afternoon of live orchestral music from How to Train Your Dragon, Peer Gynt, and Sleeping Beauty. But the magic doesn't stop there. Delve into the world classic fairy tales with a hila...
Newton Faulkner
Tuesday 14 October 2025
Multi-Platinum selling Surrey-born acoustic singer-songwriter Newton Faulkner possesses a pop sensibility that allows him to sit easily alongside the likes of Jack Johnson, Paolo Nutini, and Ed Sheeran - who stole his original "ginger guy ...
Jeffrey Lewis & The Voltage
Tuesday 14 October 2025
The mind-spinning indie-rock/folk/art of Jeffrey Lewis & The Voltage developed when songwriter and comic book artist Jeffrey Lewis began recording homemade cassettes in New York City in 1998; his critically acclaimed, unusual and word-dense...
Jesca Hoop, Kate Stables & Lail Arad - The Songs of Joni Mitchell
Tuesday 14 October 2025
Line Up: Jesca Hoop, Kate Stables (This is the Kit) and Lail Arad. Following a revered debut at The Roundhouse's In The Round Festival in April 2024, 'The Songs of Joni Mitchell' returns with a new line-up. The show was conceived and cura...
Seth Lakeman
Wednesday 15 October 2025
Multi award-winning folk singer Seth Lakeman was raised and still lives on Dartmoor, within sight of the sea at Plymouth, from where the Puritans sailed on the Mayflower in 1620. The Mercury Prize nominated singer, songwriter, and multi-ins...
John Myrtle
Wednesday 15 October 2025
Now Wave presents John Myrtle at The Castle Hotel on 15th October 2025...
Graham Nash
Thursday 16 October 2025
Two-time Rock and Roll Hall of Fame inductee and Grammy award winning Salford singer-songwriter Graham Nash returns to Europe to perform songs spanning his sixty-year career from The Hollies to Crosby, Stills and Nash, to CSNY and his be...
Damien O'Kane & Ron Block Band
Thursday 16 October 2025
Prepare to be mesmerized by the extraordinary collaboration of Damien O'Kane and Ron Block, two of the most innovative banjo players and resonant singers in the world today. With their groundbreaking three albums Banjophony, Banjophonics, a...
Martha Tilston
Thursday 16 October 2025
With a voice like spider-webbed hollows and lyrics that inspire and captivate, Brighton-born, Cornwall-based Martha Tilston has carved her niche in the English modern folk scene with sharp, original songs that dissect the modern world an...
Gaz Brookfield
Thursday 16 October 2025
Following a two-year hiatus from live touring, the Bristol folk and rock musician returns to the road with his biggest tour to date, in celebration of the release of his 8th studio album, Idiomatic. Joined by the other two-thirds of The Ori...
Larkin Poe
Friday 17 October 2025
Rebecca & Megan Lovell of Larkin Poe are singer/songwriter, multi-instrumentalist sisters creating their own brand of Roots Rock 'n' Roll: gritty, soulful, and flavoured by their southern heritage. Originally from Atlanta and currently livi...
The Dreggs
Friday 17 October 2025
Australian folk pop duo Paddy Macrae and Zane Harris describe their music as "acoustic folk with a little 'singer-song writer'. ...
Calum Baird
Friday 17 October 2025
'Echoing early Billy Bragg with his dogged optimism' - Tom Robinson, BBC 6 Music...
Eddi Reader (Fairground Attraction)
Saturday 18 October 2025
The supremely talented, unique and charismatic triple BRIT award-winning Scottish folk pop singer delivers the most consistently beautiful, often deeply personal and intimate songs, including the charming acoustic pop of 1988 chart-topper P...
Idlewild
Saturday 18 October 2025
Raucous cult Scottish Highlands curiosity turned chart bothering national treasures, Roddy Woomble, Rod Jones, and Colin Newton, plus Allan Stewart, Luciano Rossi and Andrew Mitchell return. Their form of alternative rock woven together...
Fairport Convention
Saturday 18 October 2025
Fairport Convention have been entertaining music lovers for over half a century, havingformed in 1967 and goiing on to win a BBC Lifetime Achievement Award, with Radio 2 listeners voting their ground-breaking album Liege & Lief "The Most...
Merry Hell
Saturday 18 October 2025
Joyful Wigan folk rockers Merry Hell have graced the UK charts with their trademark all-standing, all-dancing, roof-raising traditional folk music. Formed in 2010, the core members of the band include the three Kettle brothers, who were pre...
Dervish
Saturday 18 October 2025
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Simply Dylan - A Tribute to Bob Dylan
Sunday 19 October 2025
As straightforward as the title suggests: no frills, no gimmicks, no pretense; Simply Dylan is John O'Connell's personal exploration and celebration of the rich and diverse work of Bob Dylan.O'Connell, formerly of Groundpig, has had his nam...
New Model Army
Sunday 19 October 2025
Formed in Bradford in 1980, New Model Army's beginnings were inspired by Northern Soul, Punk Rock and the incendiary atmosphere of the times. Since then, they have had a long, creative and eventful journey. They have been massively influent...
Lisa Knapp & Gerry Diver
Sunday 19 October 2025
Lisa Knapp and Gerry Diver, a dynamic duo, fuse their deep-seated love for English and Irish folk traditions into a vibrant project that's as grounded in tradition as it is daring in innovation. With Knapp's distinctive voice and her skill ...
Steve 'n' Seagulls
Sunday 19 October 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....
Martha Tilston
Sunday 19 October 2025
With a voice like spider-webbed hollows and lyrics that inspire and captivate, Brighton-born, Cornwall-based Martha Tilston has carved her niche in the English modern folk scene with sharp, original songs that dissect the modern world an...
Heidi Talbot
Sunday 19 October 2025
Born in a small village in Co. Kildare, Ireland, Heidi Talbot became a folk star in the USA as a member of the Irish American band Cherish the Ladies, and now lives in Edinburgh, Scotland teaching yoga in her spare time. With a background l...
Zac Lawrence
Sunday 19 October 2025
Now Wave presents Zac Lawrence at The Castle Hotel on 19th October 2025....
Suzanne Vega
Monday 20 October 2025
A masterful storyteller, with literary lyrics that guide the listener through her poetic observations of the world around her, Vega's understated melodic beauty is immediately recognisable and as utterly distinct and thoughtful as it was wh...
Rumer
Tuesday 21 October 2025
Rumer, one of the UK's most beloved and soulful voices, celebrates the 15th anniversary of her groundbreaking debut album Seasons of My Soul, which featured a collection of unforgettable hits, including the chart-topping single Slow, on...
O'Hooley & Tidow
Tuesday 21 October 2025
After 15 years of performing together, eight studio albums, four BBC Folk Award nominations, composing Gentleman Jack as the BBC/HBO drama theme tune and hundreds of venues and festivals across the UK and Europe, the much loved Yorkshire...
Spotlight: Harry Lines (singer-songwriter)
Tuesday 21 October 2025
PerformersHarry Lines vocals and guitarAboutHarry Lines sets the mood with songs from his latest EP Landslide, blending folk and modern soul with effortless style.?TicketsFree admission, no ticket requiredPromoted by RNCM. This event will e...
Thrax Punks - Manchester
Tuesday 21 October 2025
Known for their blistering live shows and wild improvisations, Thrax Punks blend ancient melodies with modern defiance....
John Bramwell (I Am Kloot)
Wednesday 22 October 2025
The songwriter and frontman of Manchester three-piece, I Am Kloot also possesses an enviable back catalogue as a solo artist - previously known around his hometown as Johnny Dangerously - and continues to work on new material under the guis...
Beoga
Wednesday 22 October 2025
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Gwenifer Raymond
Wednesday 22 October 2025
Welsh instrumentalist Gwenifer Raymond is set to release her third studio album on 6 September via Canadian label We Are Busy Bodies. Last Night I Heard the Dog Star Bark is a hybrid of the ancient and the futuristic, where the arcane etchi...
Gregory Alan Isakov
Thursday 23 October 2025
Recently nominated for a Grammy award for Best Folk Album, the Colorado based South African horticulturist-turned-musician Gregory Alan Isakov has cast an impressive presence on the indie-rock and folk worlds with his five full-length studi...
Counting Crows
Friday 24 October 2025
Introspective Californian roots rockers with a string of high-profile hits including Mr Jones and Accidentally In Love. It's easy to see Counting Crows as a band out of time. While their neighbours to the north spent the early 90s backing t...
Naima Bock (Goat Girl)
Friday 24 October 2025 - Saturday 24 January 2026
The roots of Naima Bock's music are far reaching. Born in Glastonbury to a Brazilian father and a Greek mother, Naima spent her early childhood in Brazil before eventually returning to England and various homes in South-East London. This he...
Wuthering Nights - A Kate Bush & Friends Discotheque
Friday 24 October 2025
Strange things are about to happen when the UK's finest Kate Bush club night returns. Get ready to exchange the experience with hundreds of Kate Bush fans as we romp through Kate's back catalogue with an overuse of smoke machines, visuals a...
Robyn Hitchcock
Friday 24 October 2025
Robyn Hitchcock is one of England's most enduring contemporary singer/songwriters and live performers. Despite having been persistently branded as eccentric or quirky for much of his career, Hitchcock has continued to develop his whimsical ...
Lilly Hiatt
Friday 24 October 2025
The last few years have been a little hazy for Lilly Hiatt.?I was on the phone with a friend recently who said she wasn?t sure where I?d been,? Hiatt recalls. ?I realised I wasn?t really too sure of that either.?The search for answers ? whe...
Gillian Welch & Dave Rawlings
Saturday 25 October 2025
GRAMMY-winning Nashville singer-songwriter Gillian Welch performs with her musical partner, guitarist David Rawlings. Their sparse and dark musical style, which combines elements of Appalachian music, bluegrass, country and Americana, is de...
Brandy Clark
Saturday 25 October 2025
Before breaking through as a solo artist with 2013's award-winning "12 Stories", Grammy-nominated country singer-songwriter Brandy Clark had long been considered one of Nashville's most esteemed songwriters. Born in a logging town of 900 pe...
Martin Harley
Saturday 25 October 2025
Known for his spellbinding slide guitar and ability to blend Americana, Blues, and Folk, Harley has captivated audiences for three decades, recording albums in Texas, Nashville, and his native Wales. His sold-out shows at venues like London...
Gogol Bordello
Sunday 26 October 2025
Since 1999, Gogol Bordello has been bringing their unique fusion of punk rock and Eastern European influences to the world, including their legendary theatrical and rambunctious live shows. From its inception, Gogol Bordello has been a b...
This Flight Tonight - A Tribute To Joni Mitchell
Sunday 26 October 2025
Acclaimed singer/songwriters Zervas & Pepper present 'This Flight Tonight' an intimate acoustic tribute to the music of Joni Mitchell. Featuring songs such as 'California', 'Blue', 'Woodstock' 'Both Sides Now', 'Coyote', 'Big Yellow Taxi', ...
John Smith
Sunday 26 October 2025
Born in Essex, raised by the Devon seaside, and making his bones in the bars and clubs of Liverpool, John Smith boasts over 100 million Spotify streams. He has played to audiences all over the world in living rooms, festival tents and so...
Mark Chadwick (Levellers)
Sunday 26 October 2025
One of the UK's most successful songwriters, Mark Chadwick has scored fourteen Top 40 chart singles and twelve Top 40 albums (including a Number 1) as part of The Levellers, the band he has fronted for over 25 years. Still going strong,...
CAAMP
Monday 27 October 2025
The earthy, jubilant Columbus, Ohio, folk band have been writing and singing tender love songs tinged with melancholy and determination ever since they met as students at Ohio University, playing local coffeehouses and growing more committ...
Julie Fowlis
Monday 27 October 2025
"If snow could sing, it would sing like Julie Fowlis..." ... this is how her pure Northern voice was described by acclaimed nature writer Robert Macfarlane. Hailing from the Outer Hebrides and now based in the Highlands, Julie Fowlis is ...
