WORLD MUSIC CONCERTS IN MANCHESTER
WORLD MUSIC CONCERTS IN MANCHESTER
Most Popular World Music Concerts in Manchester
Thu 29 May - Sat 21 Jun 2025
Fri 25 Apr - Sat 17 May 2025
Daniel Martinez Flamenco Company - Art of Andalucia
Sunday 2 March 2025
The award-winning Daniel Martinez Flamenco Company presents its long-awaited 2nd production Andalucia, a stunning flamenco production accompanied by a chamber orchestra. This extra special concert is a musical representation of the eight r...
Kamil Bednarek
Sunday 2 March 2025
Kamil Bednarek is a Polish reggae and dancehall pop musician, best known as the runner-up in the third series of Mam talent! He is best known for his Polish chart-topping hit "Cisza". ...
RNCM Spotlight - Fushigi
Tuesday 4 March 2025
Fushigi is a five-piece city pop band inspired by the funk, jazz and disco-infused pop music of 80s Japan. ...
RNCM Spotlight - Osian Ensemble: Latin Nights
Thursday 6 March 2025
Jacob Wright, Georgina Bloomfield (violins), Kirin Howat (viola), and Maya Tucker (cello) perform a FREE programme of Latin inspired pieces from Astor Piazzolla, Georges Bizet, Pablo de Sarasate, Manuel De Falla, Isaac Albeniz, and Chi...
Sean Rowe
Thursday 6 March 2025
Though he grew up in the generally frozen landscape of Troy, New York, Sean Rowe spent many of his formative summers in DeLand, Florida where his father was a residential caretaker at a home for troubled youths. It was there, in a mercifull...
La Fiesta
Friday 7 March - Friday 6 June 2025
A free-to-dance global music night featuring Afrobeat, Reggae, Latin, and Jazz with live band. Free entry, every Friday! ...
Susi Evans & Szilvia Csaranko
Thursday 13 March 2025
Clarinet and accordion folk and klezmer music duo from London & Hannover, Susi Evans and Szilvia Csaranko perform old Yiddish melodies from a remarkable archive of manuscripts collected in Jewish villages in Ukraine between 1912 to 1914. Su...
Cristina Aguilera - Emuná
Friday 14 March 2025
Emuna by flamenco dancer Cristina Aguilera, an enchanting and passionate performance from flamenco greats, with Miguel Lavi, David Caro. International flamenco star from Granada, Cristina Aguilera (bailaora) returns with her second show aft...
Steel Pulse
Saturday 15 March 2025
Bearing witness to the accelerating negativity of global affairs, Birmingham roots reggae legends, Steel Pulse, emerge with musical vengeance to halt the disarray of humanity, armed with compassion, encouraging all people to reject false i...
Prolisok Dance Ensemble - Step Into Ukraine Benefit Concert
Sunday 16 March 2025
After successful 2024 London shows, internationally renowned Ukrainian dance ensemble Prolisok return with their spectacular production. This amazing fundraising concert showcases flamboyant dances from across Ukraine, where Prolisok and th...
Taemin
Tuesday 18 March 2025
With his first world tour, South Korean K-Pop singer and actor Lee Tae-min, from the popular K-pop group SHINee, is now set to take the stage in Europe with a setlist that spans his impressive discography, Taemin fans (TAEMates) can lo...
Danny & the Champions of the World
Wednesday 19 March 2025
You Are Not A Stranger Here, the long-awaited new album by Danny & the Champions of the World, will be released through Loose Music on 18 October. Their seventh studio release and first since 2017?s Brilliant Light, You Are Not A Stranger H...
Manchester Folk Festival - Festival Pass
Thursday 20 - Saturday 22 March 2025
Manchester Folk Festival is an urban multi-venue festival based in Manchester's Northern Quarter. The festival takes place in March and brings together a diverse range of artists who represent the broad definition of contemporary folk mu...
Cara Dillon
Thursday 20 March 2025
Cara Dillon, the multi-award winning Northern Irish singer, returns to perform some of her favourite and most popular songs. Cara has been celebrated as one of the finest exponents of traditional Irish song anywhere in the world and continu...
RAMONA LIVE - Salsa De Cuba
Thursday 20 March - Thursday 10 April 2025
Salsa de Cuba Fronted by two old friends Juan Sanchez and Reinier Bazan, Salsa de Cuba bring high-energy and passion to the dance floor....
Esprit D'Air
Sunday 23 March 2025
The London-based Japanese electronicore, gothic metal, power metal, and industrial metal rock band became a solo project for guitarist Kai in 2016 and have since enjoyed chart success in the UK and scooped the Independent Music Award's 'Be...
Michael Kahan Kapelye
Monday 24 March 2025
The fourteenth generation of the university's resident klezmer ensemble returns to perform a vibrant programme of arrangements of music originating in Eastern European Yiddish cultures. Named after Michael Kahan, a Manchester-based music...
Bloodywood
Tuesday 25 March 2025
Bloodywood is a metal band from New Delhi, India. ...
Marina Satti
Tuesday 1 April 2025
Greece's entry in the Eurovision Song Contest 2024, with the song "ZARI", singer, songwriter and music producer Marina Satti was born in Athens, Greece to a Sudanese father and Cretan mother. Marina graduated in classical piano, advanced mu...
Ichiko Aoba
Wednesday 2 April 2025
To listen to Ichiko Aoba is to be drawn into a world as intimate as a warmly lit home but cosmic in scale. The Japanese singer, songwriter, composer, and multi-instrumentalist has successfully brought a dedicated online fanbase to intern...
Goran Bregovic
Friday 4 April 2025
The maestro of the Balkans performs his intoxicating blend of ethno-pop-rock, gypsy rhythms, and heart-warming anthems. Celebrated for global hits like Kalashnikov, In the Death Car, and Bella Ciao (feat. The Wedding and Funeral Orchestra),...
Vikkstar
Saturday 5 April 2025
A member of the YouTube group the Sidemen, English influencer and record producer, Vikram Singh Barn (aka Vikkstar123) is a rising DJ talent. Vikkstar has been making serious waves in the music industry with a collaboration with global su...
Ustad Rahat Fateh Ali Khan
Sunday 6 April 2025
Popular legendary Qawwal & Playback singer, Ustad Rahat Fateh Ali Khan returns to the UK. The Pakistani maestro quotes, "UK is my second home and the love I get from my audiences is very special". This time I have prepared for a unique sho...
Northern Tamil Association - Spring Melodies
Sunday 6 April 2025
Northern Tamil Association UK invites you to a breathtaking Live Music Concert celebrating the best of Tamil music. Featuring a dazzling performance lineup from both India and the UK, this will be an afternoon of pure musical brilliance. St...
Bollywood Time Machine
Friday 11 April 2025
Embark on a journey through the dynamic decades with Bollywood Time Machine! From the groovy 60s to the contemporary hits of today, immerse yourself in an evening filled with laughter, dance, and timeless melodies from enchanting voices of ...
Blick Bassy
Monday 14 April 2025
Indie-pop and afro-soul sounds...
Burna Boy
Monday 21 April 2025
One of West Africa's biggest stars, Nigeria's Burna Boy is the stage name of Damini Ebunoluwa Ogulu. Heavily inspired by his grandfather - who managed Afrobeat pioneer Fela Kuti - he started mixing his own beats at a young age. He has c...
Heilung
Monday 21 April 2025
The enigmatic world music collective, made up of members from Denmark, Norway, and Germany, return with their signature amplified folk based on texts and runic inscriptions from Germanic peoples of the Iron Age, and Viking Age. The mysterio...
Bollywood Time Machine
Friday 25 April 2025
Embark on a journey through the dynamic decades with Bollywood Time Machine! From the groovy 60s to the contemporary hits of today, immerse yourself in an evening filled with laughter, dance, and timeless melodies from enchanting voices of ...
Jah Wobble & The Invaders Of The Heart
Friday 25 April 2025
Combining global music, reggae, fusion and punk influences, Jah Wobble has entranced the world with his hypnotic bass riffs for over four decades and has become one of Britain's most influential and distinct bass players. Accompanied by h...
Valery Meladze
Saturday 26 April 2025
Georgian-born Russian art rock star Valery Meladze, a Meritorious Artist of Russia, and People's Artist of the Chechen Republic, celebrates 30 years in the industry. With his brother Konstantin Meladze, he founded the Russian-Ukrainian...
Jeffrey Martin
Thursday 1 May 2025
As a babe Jeffrey Martin sought out solitude as often as he could find it. He?s always been that way, and he has never understood the whole phenomenon of smiling in pictures, although he is a very happy guy. One night in middle school he st...
Wave To Earth
Friday 2 May 2025
Korean indie rock trio Wave to Earth (웨이브투어스) come to Europe. ...
Aakash Odedra Company - Songs of the Bulbul
Tuesday 6 May 2025
Leicester's award-winning international dance company Aakash Odedra unites with musical greats, Abi Sampa, Sarthak Kalyani, Rushil Ranjan and forty of Manchester Camerata's musicians for a unique live orchestral performance of Son...
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 ...
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...
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...
Sublime Flamenco - Festival Cante de las Minas
Thursday 15 - Saturday 17 May 2025
In this tablao performance, flamenco is presented in its rawest and most essential form: the deep lament of cante jondo, the untamed passion of dance, and the overwhelming energy of rhythm come together in a ritual that stirs the senses. Th...
