JAZZ & BLUES IN MANCHESTER
JAZZ & BLUES IN MANCHESTER
Most Popular Jazz & Blues in Manchester
Sat 13 Jul 2024 - Sat 29 Mar 2025
Fri 9 Aug 2024 - Thu 5 Jun 2025
Go Your Own Way - The Fleetwood Mac Legacy
Saturday 29 June 2024
Go Your Own Way is a brand new spellbinding show featuring the music from the legendary multiple Grammy Award Winning Fleetwood Mac. Their rock n roll legacy is beautifully performed by a highly talented and acclaimed ensemble of musicians ...
Alderley Music Festival
Saturday 29 June 2024
A Fantastic Day & Night of World Class Tributes to: Whitney Houston, Diana Ross, Elton John, Take That, Freddie Mercury plus Soul & Club Classics. ...
Group Listening
Saturday 29 June 2024
Meditative heavy hitters Group Listening deliver a haunting, reflective and lovingly considered selection box of musical reworkings alongside their own compositions. Paul Jones's piano rolls through tracks hypnotically while Stephen Black's...
Manchester Got Soul
Saturday 29 June - Saturday 28 December 2024
With live music + DJs across both floors of Blues Kitchen from 10pm - 3am, the house band take to the stage for three live sets. Expect to hear the hits of Aretha Franklin, Fleetwood Mac, Stevie Wonder & The Rolling Stones. ...
Staples Jr. Singers
Sunday 30 June 2024
Gospel soul sensations Edward, Annie and R.C. Brown are the Staples Jr. Singers who hail from Aberdeen, Mississippi. In 1975 they released their own privately pressed LP "When Do We Get Paid". The album was sold at shows, church and to ne...
Janelle Monáe
Tuesday 2 - Thursday 4 July 2024
Certainly one of the most celebrated artists of the modern era, critically acclaimed shapeshifting, multi-talented Kansas City superstar Janelle Monae musically incorporates influences of hip hop, soul, funk, gospel, jazz, rock, pop, and r...
The Swing Commanders
Wednesday 3 July 2024
The Swing Commanders are a stunningly vibrant and versatile Manchester-based group that perform an exciting mix of 1940s Classics, Boogie-Woogie, Western Swing, '50s Jump Jazz and more! Every member of the Swing Commanders sings and plays ...
Ari Tsugi + FFFINOS
Wednesday 3 July 2024
To celebrate the upcoming release of 'Simultaneity', we are throwing a party at The Talleyrand. Come for live music full of jazz, psyche, world vibes...
Russell Crowe's Indoor Garden Party
Thursday 4 July 2024
Aussie Hollywood icon Russell Crowe is on the road again playing music. He was named Rome's Ambassador to the world in 2022, awarded as a "Global Icon" by GQ magazine, but he was also barred entry from a suburban Japanese restaurant in Melb...
Hallé - Stars and Stripes
Saturday 6 July 2024
Celebrate Independence Day with the Halle and join us on an American musical odyssey. Copland's musical homage to the everyday heroes, with its triumphant brass and percussion, heralds the start of our captivating exploration of American mu...
Brittany Howard (Alabama Shakes)
Saturday 6 July 2024
Best known as the lead singer and guitarist for the chart-topping, Grammy-winning American blues rock band Alabama Shakes, Brittany Howard, has enjoyed solo success topping the Adult Alternative Airplay charts in the States with "Stay High...
Manchester International Roots Orchestra
Saturday 6 July 2024
The Manchester International Roots Orchestra (MIRO) is a unique ensemble of musicians with roots from across the world including refugee musicians. Their repertoire skilfully combines diverse musical influences from haunting Eastern Europ...
Jungle (DJ Set)
Thursday 11 July 2024
A DJ Set) from the BRIT Award-winning London electronic neo-soul and funk duo (Josh Lloyd-Watson and Tom McFarland). ...
Buffalo Brothers
Thursday 11 July 2024
Born of the Manchester creative melting pot, Buffalo Brothers are a band who have quickly earned a reputation in their local stomping grounds for energetically executing explosive live sets of breathtakingly raw funk creations. The band's m...
Stax of Soul & The Soul Review
Saturday 13 July 2024
The original. A reputation that needs no introduction. Born in Manchester in 1983, 9-piece 100% live band STAX of SOUL celebrate their 40th Anniversary. Featuring incredible musicians (including a powerful brass section) meticulously & ene...
Fleetwood Bac - The Fleetwood Mac Tribute Show
Saturday 13 July 2024
Fleetwood Bac are the world's first and best Fleetwood Mac Tribute Band, endorsed by Mick Fleetwood himself, the only Mac tribute to authentically replicate the classic 'Rumours' line-up. The show focuses on the 'Rumours' era of the band ...
Jacky Terrasson
Tuesday 16 - Thursday 18 July 2024
Jacky Terrasson embarks on a new tour to celebrate the release of his latest album Moving On....
The Amy Winehouse Experience
Saturday 20 July 2024
Fronted by the enigmatic Caroline Lowe with a group of backing musicians, this is the UK's premier tribute to the often misunderstood and sadly missed talent of the late Amy Winehouse. From the creators of Lioness, The Amy Winehouse Experi...
Kyla Brox
Friday 26 July 2024
Blues and soul become inextricably entwined in award-winning singer-songwriter, Kyla Brox, whose raw talent has seen her described as "the finest female blues singer of her generation" and, by Tony Wilson, as "Manchester's answer to Aretha ...
Boogietown North
Saturday 27 July 2024
Boogietown heads to Manchester Barton Aerodrome on 27th July for a massive day of soul, funk & disco...
Tank and The Bangas
Sunday 28 July 2024
New Orleans funk and soul band Tank and the Bangas, led by frontwoman and poet Tarriona "Tank" Ball, have become widely beloved for their lauded live shows and kitchen-sink approach to making music. After beating 6,000 other bands to win th...
Racing + Earth Wind & Fire Experience By Al McKay
Friday 9 August 2024
Built around legendary Earth Wind & Fire guitarist, Al McKay, and a group of top Los Angeles studio and road musicians is the aptly named "Al McKay Allstars." They are all about the music. Performing hit after hit of the super group's mater...
The Magic of Motown
Friday 9 August 2024
Get ready for all the hits, glittering costumes, dazzling dance routines and outstanding musicianship in this breath-taking live concert spectacular. You will be going Loco down in Acapulco as we take you back down memory lane with all the ...
Aziz Ibrahim
Saturday 10 August 2024
Aziz Ibrahim is best known as a guitarist with The Stone Roses and Ian Brown, co-writing songs such as "My Star", "Corpses in Their Mouths", "Longsight M13", "One Way Ticket to Paradise" and numerous other tracks from "Unfinished Monkey Bus...
Marc Rebillet
Thursday 15 August 2024
One-man improv master with an impressive vocal range and near-perfect pitch Musical comedy improviser Marc Rebillet began his career in 2016 by live-streaming to YouTube, Facebook, Twitter and Twitch while performing songs in his bedroom - ...
Marcos Valle
Thursday 15 August 2024
Samba & bossa to psychedelic MPB & beach boogie, Marcos Valle is one the most important musical artists in Brazil?s history. There are not many artists in any era in recorded music history that can boast a career as stylistically varied as ...
Forever Moore - A Tribute to Gary Moore
Saturday 17 August 2024
Forever Moore are the UK's only tribute to the late, great Gary Moore, playing all Gary's greatest hits, from his early solo career right through to his best known heavy rock & blues tracks. Expect to hear Out in the Fields, Still got the B...
The Kills
Wednesday 21 August 2024
Rock duo - former Blyth Power Hampshire guitarist Jamie "Hotel" Hince, the former husband of Kate Moss, and The Dead Weather's Florida vocalist Alison "VV" Mosshart - are the rare force of nature who can tour with Queens of the Stone Age o...
The Swampstompers
Saturday 24 August 2024
We've finally matched a date for the return of Local Legends The Swampstompers always one of the best shows on our books...
Rickie Lee Jones
Friday 30 August 2024
Iconic American musician, storyteller, and two-time Grammy winner, Rickie Lee Jones is best known for her groundbreaking self-titled debut in 1979 - which spawned the UK Top 20 hit "Chuck E.'s in Love" - and the seminal "Pirates" in 1981, h...
Jazzette with Carol Jason
Friday 30 August 2024
FREE Lunchtime concert. Jazzette are led by Carol Jason, a bassist and vocalist specialising in traditional Jewish music and jazz standards. She'll be joined by pianist and vocalist Andy Gleave. Born in Withington, Carol grew up in a fa...
The Teskey Brothers
Thursday 5 - Friday 6 September 2024
The Teskey Brothers are an Australian blues rock band from Melbourne, named after the two brothers who formed the group in 2008: Josh Teskey and Sam Teskey. Their music is in the style of Wilson Pickett, and Otis Redding, playing soul mu...
Give Me The Night - A Tribute to George Benson
Saturday 7 September 2024
It's time to throw out all your blues and hit the city lights for a night of George Benson classics, as world-renowned leading man Nat Augustin pays tribute to the American soul superstar who helped make r'n'b soul what it is today. Brand n...
Strictly Smokin' Big Band & Alice Grace
Saturday 7 September 2024
Get ready to swing the night away with the Strictly Smokin' Big Band as they bring to life the timeless music of Ella Fitzgerald and Duke Ellington. The show's projected backdrop explores the intricacies of these greats, their music and ...
Nearly Dan - The Spirit & Sound Of Steely Dan
Saturday 7 September 2024
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...
The Tiger Lillies
Tuesday 10 September 2024
The Grammy nominated Godfathers of alternative cabaret present Come on Down (The Nihilism Tour), a new show on a theme which has always run through their work - the meaninglessness and absurdity of existence. Brimming with wit, wisdom and h...
Cat Clyde
Wednesday 11 September 2024
Cat Clyde is a singer/songwriter based out of rural Ontario, Canada. A combination of driven, soulful blues and sweet, folk- tinged, dulcet tones that carry a particular sense of familiarity provide the structure on which she creates her un...
Andrew Wasylyk & Tommy Perman
Wednesday 11 September 2024
We?re delighted to be welcoming Andrew Wasylyk and Tommy Perman to Gullivers!Andrew Wasylyk?s cinematic compositions have been nominated for the Scottish Album of the Year Award and been awarded BBC 6 Music?s Gideon Coe?s Album of the Year....
BBC Radio 2 Piano Room Live - Jamie Cullum & BBC Concert Orchestra
Thursday 12 September 2024
BBC Radio 2's beloved Piano Room is taking its magic on the road for the very first time in September 2024 at Manchester's Opera House for three very special nights. Hosted by Vernon Kay, Piano Room Live - a showcase brought to you by SJM C...
Blackberry Smoke
Thursday 12 September 2024
Atlanta, Georgia's Blackberry Smoke are set to bring their southern rockin' sounds to Europe. Embodying their native Georgia's rich musical legacy, they have, for the past two decades, honoured the people, places and sounds of their home s...
Jon Spencer & The HITmakers
Thursday 12 September 2024
The incredible, indelible Jon Spencer (Blues Explosion, Boss Hog, Pussy Galore, Heavy Trash, etc) is back with the incendiary HITmakers ! His most complex and groovy music in years, a dark, danceable odyssey - both a studied take-down ...
