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
Sat 24 May - Sun 19 Oct 2025
Mon 23 Jun - Thu 17 Jul 2025
Ian Prowse & Amsterdam
Friday 2 May 2025
Ian Prowse is a singer/songwriter from Ellesmere Port who wears his heart on his sleeve and writes straight from the cuff. Formed in 1999 with former Blow Monkeys drummer Tony Kiley and cousin Johnny Barlow, his Liverpool pop rock outfit...
Austin Stambaugh
Friday 2 May 2025
Ohio balladeer and story writer Austin Stambaugh is enriched with an authenticity that is magnetically keen. A modern pioneer of folk storytelling, his work has been called ?timeless and nuanced? by Lilly Hiatt who wrote, ?enjoy with the li...
Kathryn Roberts & Sean Lakeman
Saturday 3 May 2025
Duos come and duos go, and some nurture and fine tune their art and watch it grow into something totally original and captivating. Described as "folk music for the modern age" by The Telegraph, and "rightly regarded as one of the most engag...
Mike Masse
Sunday 4 May 2025
Internationally acclaimed Denver, Colorado, guitarist, Mike Masse is known for his known for his epic whirlwind acoustic covers of rock classics. He initially became known for his YouTube Channel, which now has over 400,000 subscribers an...
Skipinnish
Monday 5 May 2025
Skipinnish encompasses the very best of contemporary Celtic music with a unique and sublime mix of chart-topping, self-penned songs and powerful bagpipe, fiddle and accordion-led tune sets. As a result, the band has built a loyal and strong...
The Pogues
Wednesday 7 May 2025
Following the death of Kent frontman Shane MacGowan in 2023, Celtic punk legends The Pogues return in 2025 for their first UK Tour since 2012 to celebrate 40 years of 'Rum Sodomy & the Lash'. Featuring original members, Mancunian accordian ...
Track Dogs
Wednesday 7 May 2025
Track Dogs are four international "madrilenos" (Garrett Wall, Dave Mooney, Howard Brown & Robbie K. Jones) 2 Irishmen, an Englishman and an American. Based in Spain, the band name comes from the dark subterranean world of New York's subway ...
This Flight Tonight - A Tribute To Joni Mitchell
Thursday 8 May 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', ...
The Dolly Show - Tribute to Dolly Parton
Friday 9 May 2025
As seen on BBC ONE and voted the U.K's No 1. Dolly Parton tribute by the Agents Association of Great Britain! Undeniably one of the BEST Dolly impersonators you will ever see, West End star Kelly O'Brien performs the beloved hits of country...
Hayden Thorpe & Propellor Ensemble
Friday 9 May 2025
A critically acclaimed artist steeped in solitude and fragility, Hayden Thorpe's singular voice and imaginative song craft is bore of the Lake District landscape in which he lives. Having first cultivated a devoted audience with his band Wi...
Hayden Thorpe & Propellor Ensemble
Friday 9 May 2025
A critically acclaimed artist steeped in solitude and fragility, Hayden Thorpe's singular voice and imaginative song craft is bore of the Lake District landscape in which he lives. Having first cultivated a devoted audience with his band Wi...
Gruff Rhys - American Interior Screening + Q&A
Friday 9 May 2025
In 1792, John Evans, a farmhand from Snowdonia travelled to America to discover whether there was a Welsh-speaking Native American tribe walking the Great Plains. Over 200 years later, distant relative Gruff Rhys (Super Furry Animals) retra...
Amelia Coburn
Friday 9 May 2025
Amelia Coburn is darkness and light. Her acclaimed debut album Between The Moon And the Milkman, produced by Bill Ryder-Jones, showcases her as a truly singular voice in the world of music. Unbound by one mood or modern trends she pairs dar...
Noah Gundersen
Saturday 10 May 2025
With a poignant, ruminative approach to his indie folk songs, Noah Gundersen moved from Olympia to Seattle, Washington, to pursue a career in music. The yearning, acoustic folk of his first few releases gradually made way for electric guita...
Jerron Paxton
Sunday 11 May 2025
Growing up in Los Angeles, Jerron Paxton would sit with an ear by the radio, eagerly absorbing the nuances and history of Black American traditional music that connect him to his ancestral roots in the South.A songwriter, inheritor of tradi...
Seafret
Monday 12 May 2025
Indie folk rock duo Seafret consists of singer Jack Sedman and guitarist Harry Draper, from Bridlington, East Riding of Yorkshire, England. Their debut studio album Tell Me It's Real peaked at No. 59 on the UK Albums Chart. ...
The Waterboys
Tuesday 13 May 2025
Best known for songs including "How Long Will I Love You" and "The Whole of the Moon", The Waterboys have been led by Scottish singer and guitarist Mike Scott - their line-up otherwise ever-evolving - since the early 1980s, having won a ...
Bruce Springsteen & The E Street Band
Wednesday 14 - Tuesday 20 May 2025
Lauded by Rolling Stone as "the embodiment of rock & roll", with more than 140 million records sold around the globe and more than 70 million in the United States, Bruce Springsteen is one of the world's best-selling artists. Long recogni...
Jesús Aguaje Ramos & the Buena Vista Orchestra
Wednesday 14 May 2025
The biggest-selling Cuban group in music history, led by the Buena Vista Social Club's founding member Jesus "Aguaje" Ramos, The Buena Vista Orchestra continues the legacy of the renowned Cuban musical ensemble into 2025. Jesus "Aguaje" Ram...
Boyce Avenue
Thursday 15 May 2025
Boyce Avenue is a Florida-based band whose name is a combination of two streets they grew up on in Sarasota. The band is popular for its strong acoustic roots and consists of three brothers Alejandro (lead vocals, guitar, piano), Fabian (gu...
Jennifer Reid
Friday 16 May 2025
Kicking off an exploration of northern folk in the Portico Collection, acclaimed musician and researcher Jennifer Reid sings some ballads. The working classes made music as a provocation and this is a tradition that Jennifer Reid continues,...
The Lancashire Hotpots
Saturday 17 May 2025
There's only one thing more satisfying than a visit to the chippy and that's an evening with The Lancashire Hotpots. St. Helens' finest are the undisputed kings of the Northern "knees up" with banging comedy folk anthems such as "Chippy Te...
Charles Wesley Godwin
Sunday 18 May 2025
A tunesmith at the peak of his powers - melding melody with memories, workmanship with wisdom, West Virginian Country star Charles Wesley Godwin describes his musical style as inspired by artists such as Kris Kristofferson, Willie Nelson,...
Charles Wesley Godwin
Sunday 18 May 2025
A tunesmith at the peak of his powers - melding melody with memories, workmanship with wisdom, West Virginian Country star Charles Wesley Godwin describes his musical style as inspired by artists such as Kris Kristofferson, Willie Nelson,...
Folk Music Extravaganza
Monday 19 May 2025
In aid of Bolton Hospice and Bolton FM Media Academy. Previous line-ups have included local legends The Houghton Weavers and Bernard Wrigley. The Folk Show with Ron Armitage airs weekly on Bolton FM. The show is dedicated to showcasing t...
Peggy Seeger - 90th Birthday Farewell Tour
Wednesday 21 May 2025
The charismatic Peggy Seeger - singer-songwriter, feminist, icon, Ewan MacColl's partner and muse - is the undisputed queen of folk and political song. The grande dame of American and British Folk music, embarks on her last ever concert ...
Lauren Housley & The Northern Cowboys
Thursday 22 May 2025
Lauren Housley & The Northern Cowboys are bringing their ?Raisin? The Vibe Tour? to intimate UK venues this April and May. After a transformative trip to Alabama in September 2024 ? where they recorded at the legendary Muscle Shoals Sound S...
Ry X
Friday 23 May 2025
Australian transcendental folk artist RY X, born Ry Cuming, showcases a boundless ability to create thought-provoking atmospheric pop music, engulfed with his distinctively ethereal vocal lines, cloudy orchestral arrangements and accomanyi...
Lunatraktors
Friday 23 May 2025
Broken folk' duo Carli Jefferson and Clair Le Couteur rework Anglo-Celtic traditional music with influences from post-punk, trip-hop and queer cabaret. Lunatraktors strip folk down to the bare bones, mixing tonal percussion, tapdance and ha...
Toria Wooff
Friday 23 May 2025
Finding splendour in shadows, Toria Wooff sings tales of the beautifully strange. Announcing the release of her beguiling self-titled debut album, her gothic approach to the folk tradition has captured the attention of any who have caught h...
Zinadelphia
Friday 23 May 2025
Doors: 6:30pm Show: 7:15pm-8:15pm...
Simply Dylan - A Tribute to Bob Dylan
Saturday 24 May 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...
