WORLD MUSIC IN MANCHESTER
WORLD MUSIC IN MANCHESTER
Most Popular World Music in Manchester
Homayoun Shajarian & Anoushiravan Rohani
Saturday 23 November 2024
Born on May 21, 1975, in Tehran, Homayoun Shajarian developed his musical prowess under the guidance of his father, Maestro Mohammad Reza Shajarian. With a rich background in international performances and a repertoire of 40 albums, Shajari...
Candlelit Sound Bath and Meditation Experience
Saturday 23 November 2024
This enchanting candlelit sound bath meditation offers you the chance to relax and heal the mind, release tension, open blocked energy channels, and generate new vibrational frequencies. Release that which no longer serves you, cultivate ...
Kokoroko
Monday 25 November 2024
London has long been a hotbed for experimentation for music from West Africa, and it's into this global-local story that we can situate afrobeat innovators: Kokoroko. Sonically living up to their name, Kokoroko are an all star band featurin...
D'Yani UK Tour
Monday 25 November 2024
Jamaican Dancehall sensation D'Yani embarks on his first UK Tour with full live band...
The Folk Implosion
Monday 25 November 2024
Now Wave presents The Folk Implosion at YES Pink Room on 25th November 2024...
SHABAKA
Wednesday 27 November 2024
Former Sons of Kemet star Shabaka Hutchings is a pioneering voice in the renaissance of British Jazz. Transcending conventional genres and drawing on a vast pallet of cultural influences the Brimingham-raised musician, composer and bandlea...
Orphaned Land
Sunday 1 December 2024
Often criticised in their own land for being "leftist Arab lovers", Israeli metal band Orphaned Land are one of the most exclusive bands of the whole prog metal scene in the world, combining Mizrahi and Maghrebi Jewish, Arabic, Turkish, an...
Svaneborg Kardyb
Thursday 5 December 2024
Hail from Aalborg, in Jutland, in the north of Denmark, Svaneborg Kardyb are Nikolaj Svaneborg - Wurlitzer, Juno, piano and Jonas Kardyb - drums, percussion a multi-award winning duo from Denmark, where they won two "Grammys" at the Danish ...
Asen
Friday 6 December 2024
Chinese rapper and member of hip hop sensation Digi Ghetto, Asen has been pushing boundaries in the Chinese rap scene with his narrative melody rap and meaningful lyrics. ...
Kompnd AfterDark
Saturday 7 December 2024
KOMPND presents AfterDark, a 1,300 capacity immersive musical and culture club night experience showcasing everything from R&B and Afrobeats to HipHop & Dancehall. ...
Jacob Collier
Sunday 8 December 2024
The history-making multi-Grammy winning London singer and multi-instrumentalist Jacob Collier announces his biggest world tour to date, exploring the limitlessness of orchestral and choral music, taking the audience on a journey through ev...
Yannis & The Yaw (Foals)
Monday 9 December 2024
In 2016, Foals frontman Yannis Philippakis was offered the opportunity of a lifetime: a two-day session working with the great drummer Tony Allen, who he admired intensely for his influential, multi-genre work with the likes of Fela Kuti, S...
Fat Freddy's Drop
Tuesday 10 December 2024
Fat Freddy's Drop is a New Zealand seven-piece band from Wellington, whose musical style has been characterised as any combination of dub, reggae, soul, jazz, rhythm and blues, and techno. Originally a jam band formed in the late 1990s by m...
Reflection of Silence
Wednesday 11 December 2024
Reflection of Silence is a collaboration between musicians from different backgrounds, from rock to Iranian folk music. Tara Jaff, Mehdi Rostami, Faarjam Saidi, Adib Rostami and Burak Ersoz share a passion in the art of creative improvisati...
Very Santana - The Ultimate Celebration of Carlos Santana
Saturday 11 January 2025
Sit back, relax, and enjoy the most beautiful guitar melodies and the amazingly creative, unique, diverse, and very challenging songs of Carlos Santana. All of which are played skilfully by this band of top-quality and musically highly ed...
Pagrav Dance Company - ROOH: Within Her
Tuesday 14 January 2025
Join us for this compelling solo piece from renowned choreographer and performer Urja Desai Thakore. In ROOH: Within Her, Urja Desai Thakore explores narratives in quiet, everyday, heroism across two millennia. She stages the turmoil of a m...
John Craigie
Sunday 26 January 2025
John Craigie has mastered the art of creating live shows that feel more like intimate conversations than performances. Infusing humour, wit, and poignant storytelling, his shows are a space where audience members feel like old friends. Whet...
ATEEZ
Thursday 30 January 2025
Crowned a "K-Pop Powerhouse" by The Hollywood Reporter, million-selling global pop superstars ATEEZ have scored three UK Top 10 albums. The South Korean group that took the world by storm immediately after their debut in October 2018 are kn...
Rahgir
Sunday 2 February 2025
If you want a music that takes you through the beautiful streets of India, listen to Rahgir. From Sikar, Rajasthan, India, the musician, singer, songwriter, and author is known for his songs and albums like "Aadmi Bhutiya Hai", "Mere Gaon A...
Omar Rudberg
Monday 3 February 2025
Best known internationally for his starring role as Simon Eriksson in the Netflix series Young Royals, Omar Rudberg is the non-stop singer from Venezuela who moved to Sweden when he was seven years old and took every chance he got to perfor...
Darya Dadvar
Thursday 6 February 2025
An enchanting evening with the internationally renowned soprano, Darya Dadvar, as she graces the stage. Known for her captivating voice and unique fusion of classical, traditional Persian, and contemporary music, Darya takes her audience on...
Mad Dog Mcrea
Saturday 15 February 2025
Mad Dog Mcrea blend a unique mixture of folk rock, pop, gypsy jazz, bluegrass and "shake your ass" music. From self-penned songs of adventure, drinking, love and life, to traditional songs of gypsies, fairies, legless pirates and black flie...
Nai Barghouti
Sunday 16 February 2025
Award-winning singer, composer and flautist, Nai Barghouti is one of the most distinguished vocalists of a new generation of Palestinian and Arab artists. With a layered ornamental technique, in which she uses her voice as a musical instrum...
Karunesh Talwar
Wednesday 19 February 2025
In "Karunesh Talwar Live", Indian stand-up comic and musician Karunesh Talwar takes you on a hilarious journey through the everyday quirks and absurdities of life. Show is in 80% Hindi and 20% English. ...
Chuck Prophet
Friday 21 February 2025
For twelve long days, Chuck Prophet waited. A stage four lymphoma diagnosis had knocked the wind out of him, dragged him off the road and into surgery, and now here he was, a perpetual motion machine forced to sit still, confronting his mor...
Laibach
Sunday 23 February 2025
Laibach is a music and cross-media group from Slovenia established in 1980 in Trbovlje. The name of the band is the historic German version of the name Slovenia's capital Ljubljana. From the start Laibach has developed a "Gesamtkunstwerk" -...
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...
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...
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...
Seven Drunken Nights - The Story of the Dubliners
Monday 17 March 2025
Direct from the West End, the show brings to life the music of Ireland's favourite sons 'The Dubliners'. Telling the story of a career spanning 50 years and evoking the spirit of Ronnie Drew, Luke Kelly, Barney McKenna, Jim McCann, Ciaran B...
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...
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...
Bloodywood
Tuesday 25 March 2025
Bloodywood is a metal band from New Delhi, India. ...
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),...
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...
