COUNTRY & FOLK MUSIC IN MANCHESTER
COUNTRY & FOLK MUSIC IN MANCHESTER
Most Popular Country & Folk Music in Manchester
Tue 29 Oct - Sat 2 Nov 2024
The Brief Life and Mysterious Death of Boris III
Friday 8 - Saturday 9 November 2024
Award-winning Out Of The Forest Theatre's irreverent comedy - featuring live music inspired by Bulgarian and Jewish folk tunes - tells the incredible true story that the world forgot. The year is 1943 and Bulgaria has just told Hitler where...
Ron Sexsmith
Friday 8 November 2024
After sixty years around the sun, Ron Sexsmith the three time Juno award winning and internationally acclaimed Canadian folk pop songwriter, is set to perform a very special retrospective Sexsmith At Sixty concert. The concert will showca...
Aurelio Voltaire
Friday 8 November 2024
Aurelio Voltaire is often described as a modern day renaissance man. He is a singer/ performer, creator of comic books, animation and toys. An internationally touring musician, he is at the forefront of the Gothic, Steampunk and Dark Cabare...
Simply Dylan - A Tribute to Bob Dylan
Saturday 9 November 2024
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...
Crash Test Dummies
Saturday 9 November 2024
Hailing from Manitoba, Canada, Crash Test Dummies are a Juno Award-winning and Grammy Award-nominated folk/alt-rock band. Beginning in 2017, the group reunited for a 25th anniversary tour of its most commercially successful album, "God S...
Briana Corrigan (The Beautiful South)
Sunday 10 November 2024
 With a voice that "could melt icebergs at 50 paces" (VOX), Briana Corrigan was a member of The Beautiful South from 1988 to 1992 and is best known for delivering their most successful single - the chart-topping, Brit Award-winning 'A Li...
The Corrs
Monday 11 November 2024
Irish Celtic infused pop icons, The Corrs announce an eight-date UK & Ireland tour titled 'Talk On Corners' in November 2024. Performing tracks from the acclaimed album plus a selection of their greatest hits to fans all over the United...
Le Vent du Nord
Tuesday 12 November 2024
The award winning and highly acclaimed Le Vent du Nord is a leading force in Quebec's progressive French speaking folk movement. The group's vast repertoire draws from both traditional sources and original compositions, while enhancing its ...
Focus
Thursday 14 November 2024
With their unique brand of progressive rock, Focus manifested themselves at the start of the '70s as the most successful and appreciated of all the Dutch pop-rock exports. Fronted by founding member Thijs Van Leer, and best known for their ...
TRIP
Thursday 14 November 2024
TRIP are a Glasgow based six-piece band whose music unites the kindred Celtic traditions of Scotland, Ireland, Northumbria and the Isle of Man; a reflection of where each band member hails from. Their powerful, driven and distinctive sound ...
Christian Lee Hutson
Thursday 14 November 2024
Christian Lee Hutson starts his new album Quitters with a laugh. In this follow up to his ANTI records debut, Beginners, Hutson moves away from the focus on growing up to the dread and complications of growing older. The laugh that ...
KALEO
Friday 15 November 2024
 Known for the way they gorgeously blend folk, country, rock and blues, the five-piece KALEO have become one of Iceland's most successful music exports. They released their debut eponymous album in 2013 and followed it with A/B in 2016...
The Dubliners Encore - The Official Stage Show
Friday 15 November 2024
The Dubliners Encore is the Official stage show celebrating the greatest folk band of all time. Produced by The Dubliners' John Sheahan; renowned fiddle player and legendary Irish icon, this new show packs 50 years of songs, stories, and cr...
Nessi Gomes
Friday 15 November 2024
With 70 million combined streams and the award for Best Unsigned Female Artist UK 2016, Nessi Gomes is a British Portuguese musician, composer and lyricist of rare invention and beauty, whose work obliquely references her travails and nods...
Rob Heron & The Tea Pad Orchestra
Friday 15 November 2024
Described by fRoots as "Newcastle's finest swing-honkytonk-rockabilly band", Rob Heron & The Tea Pad Orchestra are ten years into a remarkable story that began with four friends, hailing from Orkney to Warwickshire, studying at Newcastle U...
Beabadoobee
Saturday 16 November 2024
Born in the Philippines and raised in London, Bea Kristi began recording music as beabadoobee in 2017. At just 20 years old, she has built her huge, dedicated Gen-Z fan base with her flawless output of confessional bedroom pop songs and DIY...
Seasick Steve
Saturday 16 November 2024
Born in Oakland, Steven Gene Leach spent his childhood in California during the '50s. He left home by the time he was a teenager and lived the life of a panhandler on the road travelling America. Leach spent time in Mississippi, Tennessee a...
Kris Drever
Saturday 16 November 2024
Kris Drever is a Scottish folk singer songwriter, who has won multiple awards including an incredible 7 BBC Radio 2 Folk Awards, two shortlist nominations for Scottish Album of The Year (with his trio Lau) and much acclaim for his solo reco...
Jacob Reddy
Saturday 16 November 2024
The teenage indie-pop singer songwriter from Blackburn is a keen songwriter who takes inspiration from the likes of George Ezra, Frank Turner, Tom Grennan and Mumford and Sons, while performing high-energy, infectious gigs. Jacob Reddy pick...
Gina Larner
Saturday 16 November 2024
Gina Larner is an Americana folk singer/songwriter born and bred in Brighton. Opening for names such as Brian McFadden, and KT Tunstall, Gina writes a variety of music, to fit every side of country folk. Gina studied music at Gloucester U...
Luke Combs UK - Tribute to Luke Combs
Sunday 17 November 2024
The World's leading tribute to the Grammy-nominated country megastar Luke Combs! Experience the heart and soul of country music as we pay homage to one of the genre's biggest stars. A night of incredible songs, authentic Southern vibes, an...
Newton Faulkner
Sunday 17 November 2024
The famous dreadlocks are probably the easiest signifier for Newton Faulkner. That might have been the point, as pretty much everything else about the Surrey-born singer songwriter is more difficult to define. Faulkner possesses a pop sensi...
Oysterband
Monday 18 November 2024
After 45 years on the road, Oysterband has decided to bring an end to touring. The 5-times BBC Radio 2 Folk Award-winning outfit that brought passion, power and not a little poetry to folk and roots music, enter their fifth decade as vital ...
Chris Cohen
Monday 18 November 2024
Now Wave presents Chris Cohen at YES Basement on 18th November 2024...
Jason Isbell And The 400 Unit
Tuesday 19 November 2024
Originally from Alabama but now based in Nashville, four-time Grammy Award-winning Americana singer, songwriter and musician Jason Isbell is widely renowned as one of the greatest songwriters of his generation with his track "Maybe It's Ti...
Talisk
Tuesday 19 November 2024
Ground-breaking, chart-topping, genre-bending, globetrotting, instantly enthralling... it's little wonder that Talisk rank highly amongst the most in-demand folk-based groups to emerge from Scotland in the last decade and more. Mohsen Amini...
Lissie
Tuesday 19 November 2024
Four UK Top 20 albums showcase the power vocal performance that has become synonymous with this always engaging Rock Island, Illinois, acclaimed country rock musician who is often compared to Lana Del Rey, with "the rustic charm of Emmylou ...
Nell Bryden
Wednesday 20 November 2024
A New York songwriter who bravely shares her vulnerabilities, it feels like audience favourite Nell Bryden is singing just for you. Putting a raw spin on her American blues and soul roots, Nell is a tour-de-force with a gorgeously rich an...
Steve Knightley
Thursday 21 November 2024
Renowned Westcountry songwriter Steve Knightley, the former Show of Hands frontman, goes back on the road with a new solo tour. After bidding a fond farewell in 2023 to a remarkable 30-year stint of non-stop touring with his old band, Knig...
Black Stone Cherry
Friday 22 November 2024
UK chart-topping proud Kentucky hard rockers, Black Stone Cherry, are back with their urgently-emotive pop-rock hooks; heartfelt, redemptive lyrics; headbanging riffs; powerful dynamics; thunderous drums; and thrilling musicianship. In the...
Wild Rivers
Friday 22 November 2024
Totonto, Ontario indie folk trio Wild Rivers have a gift for penning introspective lyrics and genre-fluid melodies that transmit wisdom beyond their years, touching on coming-of-age themes and embracing the unknown. The live setting is wher...
Bonny Light Horseman
Saturday 23 November 2024
American folk trio project Bonny Light Horseman consist of Grammy-award winning folk artist Anais Mitchell, Fruit Bats founder and former member of The Shins, Eric D. Johnson, and Josh Kaufman, a collaborator of Taylor Swift, Josh Ritter, T...
Country Fest - Country Anthems Live
Saturday 23 November 2024
A massive night of country music and Nashville anthems with a live country band playing 90 minutes of country classics, followed by country DJs playing all the hits all night. Expect to hear the music of Luke Combs / Morgan Wallen / Dolly P...
King Creosote plus Special Guests
Saturday 23 November 2024
On sale Friday 5 April @ 10AMSince the mid-late 1990s, Kenny Anderson?s DIY pop alter-ego King Creosote has released over 100 records (at a relatively conservative guess), and his songs have been covered and performed by artists including S...
Manchester Camerata & Donald Grant - The Night Overtook Us
Sunday 24 November 2024
As the nights grow longer, wrap up for this nourishing and enriching journey to the Scottish Highlands. Travel with the Manchester Camerata to Gaelic lands, where the winter nights are long and isolating. Donald Grant's newly commissioned w...
Brian Kelley (Florida Georgia Line)
Sunday 24 November 2024
Diamond-selling superstar Brian Kelley enters the next chapter of a record-breaking, history-making career. With a sold-out run of shows and back-to-back residencies at Tribe Kelley Surf Post in Grayton Beach, Florida - owned by the Ormond ...
The 502s
Sunday 24 November 2024
6 piece indie folk band The 502s are undeniable, immaculate rays of Florida sunshine. Led by earnest banjo-strumming songwriter Ed Isola, The 502s are a band of brothers whose sound has received critical acclaim as celebratory, wholesome, a...
