FREE SHOWS & EVENTS IN MANCHESTER
FREE SHOWS & EVENTS IN MANCHESTER
Most Popular Free Shows & Events in Manchester
Wed 26 Feb - Fri 28 Mar 2025
Tue 25 Feb - Tue 13 May 2025
Mon 24 Feb - Mon 31 Mar 2025
Sat 1 Mar - Sat 19 Jul 2025
Sun 16 Mar - Sun 18 May 2025
Tue 8 Apr - Fri 11 Jul 2025
Mon 24 Feb - Mon 31 Mar 2025
Tue 4 Mar - Tue 1 Jul 2025
RNCM Monday Lunchtime Showcase
Monday 24 February - Monday 31 March 2025
Drop in during your lunch break and discover a wide range of performances for free with the RNCM's Monday and Thursday Lunchtime concerts. Witness the next generation of musicians in this intimate lunchtime solo and chamber music series,...
Funk Street!
Monday 24 February - Saturday 7 June 2025
Get your groove on at Funk Street, a free night of live funk, soul and disco brought to you by resident bands. Traversing the finest in funk, soul, disco, house and more. Expect soul-heavy beats, infectious rhythm, and free-flowing danceflo...
Floridita Dance - Free Salsa Taster Class
Monday 24 February - Monday 31 March 2025
Ever wanted to learn Salsa but never danced before? Now's your chance! Start with Floridita Dance's FREE taster class designed just for absolute beginners. No partner is required. After that, you can keep growing your skills through their c...
A Sisterhood Laced in Glitter and Gold
Monday 24 February - Sunday 16 March 2025
A Sisterhood Laced in Glitter and Gold is a debut group exhibition at HOME, by Home from HOME Gorton Women's Group. Since Sep 2023, these wonderful women living in the community in Gorton have been coming together and making art every other...
Clubhouse Comedy
Tuesday 25 February - Tuesday 13 May 2025
Hosted by Charlie Lewis and Jordan Ducharme, Clubhouse Comedy is Manchester's award-nominated premier FREE comedy night in the heart of the city at legendary nightclub Joshua Brooks. Featuring the best TV acts trying new material and the ho...
Laugh Track Comedy Club
Tuesday 25 February - Tuesday 25 March 2025
Looking for local comedians performing near you? Laugh Track Comedy is the brand new biweekly stand up comedy night at one of Manchester's most iconic venues, The Eagle Inn! Featuring the best comedians right in the heart of Salford. Brough...
Floridita Dance - Free Bachata Taster Class
Tuesday 25 February - Tuesday 25 March 2025
Ever wanted to learn Bachata but never danced before? Now's your chance! Start with Floridita Dance's FREE taster class designed just for absolute beginners. No partner required. After that, you can keep growing your skills through their co...
Happy Hour Comedy
Wednesday 26 February - Friday 28 March 2025
An evening of uproarious comedy featuring the freshest local talents, all working out new material for your amusement. It's a free show with exit-by-donation - because laughter should be affordable and accessible. Come sip on budget-friendl...
The Apex Singers
Thursday 27 February 2025
The Apex Singers are an 8-part vocal ensemble known for their bespoke arrangements of traditional folk songs from around the world, performed a cappella. Their unique sound blends classical choral music, traditional folk, and contemporary a...
La Fiesta
Friday 28 February - Friday 6 June 2025
A free-to-dance global music night featuring Afrobeat, Reggae, Latin, and Jazz with live band. Free entry, every Friday! ...
LEGO Club
Friday 28 February - Friday 18 July 2025
Z-Arts are getting all their LEGO out for kids of all ages to play with and build whatever they like! Parents need to stay and supervise their children throughout the session. ...
Live Hip Hop, Afrobeats and RnB + DJs
Friday 28 February - Saturday 31 May 2025
DJs and live musicians play old and new school hip hop, afrobeats and RnB goodness from Kendrick Lamar and J Hus to Wizkid and Lauryn Hill. ...
Afroplay - Arcade & Afrobeats Party
Friday 28 February 2025
Experience the ultimate fusion of Music, Food, Fun, and game. Step into a world where music meets nostalgia at the ARCADE Hip-Hop, Afrobeats, Bashment & RnB Party. Join 100s of party-goers for an epic night out, featuring your favourite DJs...
Family Art Stars
Saturday 1 March - Saturday 19 July 2025
Families that learn together, grow together. We are very excited to continue our Family Art Stars sessions every Saturday! Come down, muck in and make some art as a family, spending quality time and learning new techniques. No skill is requ...
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. ...
Little Reads
Tuesday 4 March - Tuesday 1 July 2025
Little Reads with Manchester Literature Festival. Join Ged for an interactive Storytelling session in our new Children's Library. 10am session - Pre-school/Family session 11am- Inclusive session (If you require a BSL interpreter please do l...
Comedy Circus
Wednesday 5 - Wednesday 19 March 2025
A free open mic comedy show designed to give anyone who's ever wanted a chance to try standup comedy, and for established comedians to work out new material. It's a wild fun and chaotic show featuring weekly games and contests for drinks an...
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...
Xenia Pestova Bennett
Thursday 6 March 2025
Described by Tempo as "a powerhouse of contemporary keyboard repertoire", pianist and composer Xenia Pestova Bennett has earned an international reputation as a leading proponent of uncompromising music. Her work spans a wide range of sou...
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...
RNCM Spotlight - Two Quartets by Grażyna Bacewicz
Friday 14 March 2025
RNCM violin students Orla McGarrity, Audrey Doyle, Bruno Robalo, and Nina Doig, are joined by cello students Nathan Jackson-Turner, Maya Tucker, Elena Edwards, and Dan Shearer to perform a FREE concert of works by Grazyna Bacewicz. ...
Cloud Cuckoo Comedy
Sunday 16 March - Sunday 18 May 2025
A FREE new material night with some of the funniest comedians the North West has to offer in the heart of Preswich. Curated by MCs Hannah Rudd and Danielle Francis. All you need to do, is bring your sense of humour ...
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...
Eleanor Ryan, Yevgeny Dokshansky & Ben Powell
Thursday 3 April 2025
Lecturer in Performance Studies, Eleanor Ryan (violin) from the University of Manchester joins Professor Yevgeny Dokshansky (Clarinet) of University of Houston, and Professor Ben Powell (Piano) from RNCM. Performing Clarinet Trios from the ...
University of Manchester Baroque Orchestra - Bach and Beyond
Friday 4 April 2025
The University's Baroque orchestra and guest singers present Bach's beautiful 'Actus Tragicus' cantata (no. 106) alongside Telemann's viola concerto, the first composed for the instrument. The Baroque Orchestra is the Music department's mai...
Mothers Who Make
Tuesday 8 April - Friday 11 July 2025
A peer support group and creative exchange session for mothers who are artists - professional and/or passionate - writers, painters, actors, dancers, filmmakers, photographers... every kind of maker welcome, and every kind of mother. The se...
The National Youth Orchestra
Friday 18 April 2025
FREE FOR UNDER 19s. Feel the sound, free your spirit with this fearless performance by the National Youth Orchestra of Great Britain with conductor Andrew Gourlay, where hundreds of teenagers passionately share their love of music Hear ...
Alexandra Whittingham & Elodie Chousmer-Howelles
Thursday 1 May 2025
Recognised by The Guardian as "a young 21st-century virtuoso", guitarist Alexandra Whittingham's creative spirit is reshaping classical music and defying conventions. Alexandra began her studies at Chetham's School of Music at the age of el...
University of Manchester Jazz Ensemble
Monday 12 May 2025
Led by Alexander Gagatsis, the Music Department's jazz ensemble was established in October 2019. It is one of the department's many assessed ensembles that complement the larger orchestras operating under the umbrella of Manchester Universi...
So Many Beauties Collective
Friday 19 September 2025
A spectacular world premiere performance of the So Many Beauties Collective celebrating the power of creativity. With new music co-created by a culturally diverse groups of people living with dementia and performed by some of the North Wes...
