WHAT'S ON AT THE MET, BURY
What's On at The Met, Bury
Most Popular Shows and Events at The Met, Bury
What's On at The Met, Bury
Rumpelstiltskin
Saturday 21 - Thursday 26 December 2024
From the producers of Dick Whittington and Aladdin, The Big Tiny bring their new story of magic, mayhem and above all, true love as Cupid comes to The Met this Christmas. Can she overcome the wicked tricks of Rumpelstiltskin and help Pri...
Aiming High
Saturday 21 December 2024
Aiming High are back for another term of fun and creative drama activity. Our groups use physical activities and drama games to create a safe place for young people to express themselves, encourage them to become more independent and improv...
Leaps and Bounds
Monday 6 - Monday 27 January 2025
Our weekly dance workshop is here ready to bring the new school term in! Incorporating different dance styles for children aged 5 ? 10, this class is for young people of all abilities. In just an hour, the sessions are jam packed with routi...
Meet Me at The Met
Monday 6 - Monday 20 January 2025
Come and join us in our beautiful building to get involved in multiple activities as well as making new friendships! From mono printing to drumming workshops, we do it all and everything in between! We even have complimentary teas and coffe...
Them Heavy People - Kate Bush Tribute Band
Friday 10 January 2025
Them Heavy People are ?wowing? audiences with every gig, as their stage show mesmerises viewers with incredible musicianship, outstanding vocals and projections that makes this more of an event than a standard concert, and is a ?must see? f...
Be Right Back
Saturday 11 January 2025
Drummer Rob formed the band in early 2023, bringing together musicians who met through local community jazz programmes at venues including The Met and Band on the Wall. The band?s ethos is to create music that resonates with a wide audience...
The Blockheads
Saturday 11 January 2025
Performing a large selection of their classic songs spanning over 5 decades. Formed in 1977 to promote Ian Dury's album New Boots and Panties on the first Stiff Records tour of the UK. The Blockheads are now fronted by one of Ian's best fri...
Life Drawing with Two Crows Studios
Tuesday 14 January 2025
Basic materials are available and every session has a thought out playlist to guarantee a atmosphere to inspire your creativity. The bar will be open serving a wide variety of quality drinks and ticket price includes cheese and biscuits!...
Martyn Joseph
Friday 17 January 2025
A unique talent driven by passion, social awareness and love for his trade, the jaw dropping guitar player has developed a unique percussive style with a powerful show stopping voice, which has seen him dubbed "The Welsh Springsteen". Take ...
Jean Genie - David Bowie Tribute
Saturday 18 January 2025
One of only a few tribute artists to tour and perform with an original artist's band, David Bowie tribute act Jean Genie was created by John Mainwaring and John Ford in 1993. An original recording artist in his own right, John Mainwaring ha...
RockFit Live
Saturday 18 January 2025
Your favourite RockFit tracks performed live by Manchester?s DACARA, co-fronted by Dan Moran (Shrapnel and Reaper UK). RockFit is dance fitness to a rock and heavy metal soundtrack. Whack on your favourite band tshirt and dance to iconic tr...
Tuesday Meet-Up
Tuesday 21 January 2025
Be inspired by each other over a brew in an ever-broadening socially diverse and unique space. Two Crows will provide prompts and materials each month for overcoming creative blocks. Look forward to seeing you and strengthening Bury?s Creat...
Genesis Songbook - The ultimate Phil Collins-era Genesis Show
Thursday 23 January 2025
Formed by former Genesis Visible Touch singer Chris O'Connell, Genesis Songbook do exactly what they say - take you through the Songbook of Phil Collins fronted Genesis! Their acoustic show sees them stripped down to keys and vocals, taking...
The Met's Comedian of the Year Competition 2025
Thursday 23 January 2025
Don?t miss this chance to see six up-and-coming comedians perform and compete for a ?600 prize, and the prestigious title of The Met?s Comedian of the Year. Competing will be Al Stevenson, Becky Umbers, Ben Silver, Jules O?Brian, Lovell Smi...
Kats Dance Academy presents SHOWTIME
Friday 24 - Saturday 25 January 2025
The show features children aged six plus who have been with the academy for a while. All the performers have completed exams with the UKA and are very much looking forward to performing. Also featured will be over thirty adult tap dancers. ...
Keith James - The Songs of Nick Drake
Thursday 30 January 2025
Keith James performs a haunting and immaculately crafted concert of the songs of Nick Drake, one of the most revered and loved of all this country's Singer/Songwriters. Two decades have now passed since singer/guitarist Keith James became t...
Limehouse Lizzy - The Greatest Hits of Thin Lizzy
Friday 31 January 2025
Limehouse Lizzy continue to keep the spirit of celtic rock icon Philip Lynott and his band Thin Lizzy alive, well and dominating stages worldwide. The band have also added a tribute into their show to ex-Thin Lizzy guitarist (and world reno...
Crafty Fools - Adventures in Science
Saturday 1 February 2025
Seriously Silly Science for All Ages Join 'The Magical Mr West' on an incredible adventure into the world of science! Aided by his corvid companion Crowbert and a collection of curious contraptions, Mr West demonstrates the fundamental prin...
First Thursday Comedy
Thursday 6 February - Thursday 3 April 2025
Comedy in a Van present an hilarious evening of top quality comedy on the first Thursday of every month. Click for acts on specific dates. ...
Jan Akkerman
Thursday 6 February 2025
Jan gained international fame with Focus from 1969 ? 1976 with whom he recorded a number of breakout albums including Focus Plays Focus / In and Out Of Focus (1970), and Focus II / Moving Waves (1971) which reached the album chart in the UK...
The Bon Jovi Experience
Saturday 8 February 2025
The Bon Jovi Experience are the world's first and unquestionably finest tribute to the great Bon Jovi. They are the only tribute to have been featured on the band's official website, not to mention being the only tribute to have been reques...
BBS On Tour
Saturday 8 February 2025
Bury Blind Society write?Tonight marks the start of this exciting journey, where these incredible performers will take the stage to kick off our unique concept. Here?s the idea: we want to bring BBS on Tour to local pubs and small venues, o...
Bury Youth Dance
Monday 10 February 2025
Join us in Bury Youth Dance to develop skills, create new work, perform at a range of platforms and make connections to build career paths in dance. This company is for 11-18 year olds who already have some grounding in dance and movement a...
LipService presents Funny Stuff
Thursday 13 February 2025
In 2022 her comedy partner Maggie Fox died and Sue was left with a shipping container full of stage props, costumes, wigs, hats, shoes, sheep, you name it. This show looks at all the ?stuff? we accumulate, hoard and hate to let go. In this ...
Get A Round In for Valentines
Friday 14 February 2025
This new event at The Met features four artists sharing the stage to showcase their songwriting talent and tell the stories behind their music. Expect the very best of Greater Manchester?s acoustic talent. Line-up to be confirmed....
Rachel Newton
Saturday 15 February 2025
Singer, harpist and composer Rachel Newton draws on poems and ballads that are hundreds of years old, working them into her contemporary style to create a rich sound that is ambitious, original and unique. Previously awarded Musician of the...
Sandscape
Saturday 15 February 2025
Sand is the favourite play thing of many children! But how exactly does it feel when it runs through your hand over umbrellas and into buckets?Sandscape is a silent theatrical piece that embraces the beauty and essence of nature and evokes ...
Cinderella Ice Cream Seller
Tuesday 18 February 2025
Over the last four decades, Cinderella?s has become the kingdom?s most beloved ice cream company, with a parlour on every street corner. But how did a humble street seller with not a penny to her name end up as a multimillionaire business w...
Noasis - The Definitive Oasis Tribute Band
Friday 21 - Saturday 22 February 2025
Noasis is the definitive tribute band to Manchester's five piece Oasis. Since their formation in 2006 and with over 800 performances to date Noasis has justly earned its reputation as the best tribute on the circuit packing out venues up an...
Bury Music: Battle of the Bands
Thursday 27 February 2025
The best local talent will be battling for the chance to represent Bury in the Greater Manchester Music Hub Battle of the Bands. With bands hailing from local high schools and the hugely successful Bury Rocks! programme this promises to be ...
Ranagri
Friday 28 February 2025
With a unique blend of instruments that includes voices, guitar, bouzouki, flutes, whistles, harp/electric harp, and bodhr?n/drums, they create a sound that is both mesmerising and unforgettable. The band?s members are D?nal Rogers, a proli...
The Nashville Nights Tour
Friday 28 February 2025
Led by the genuine and critically acclaimed Nashville recording artists, Kaitlyn Baker and Joe Lasher, along with their talented full band, this tour promises an unforgettable journey through the biggest chart-topping hits of country music?...
RockFit with Allie Aggression Session
Saturday 1 March 2025
Full-throttle combat: Punching, kicking, dodging? and everything in between!Intense full-body workout: Burn calories, build strength, and feel the burn. Epic playlist: Rock and metal anthems that will fuel your fire and keep you in the zone...
Diane's Deli: A Tale from Paradise Heights
Wednesday 5 March 2025
Sean Ginty is a caf? owner in Paradise Heights. A quiet and unassuming man who wears a watch that stopped over 25 years ago. He?s a father figure to both his staff; literary student Jake, and Gabrielle, an artist and scarred survivor of a h...
The Irish House Party
Thursday 6 March 2025
There are no flat caps or twee costumes here. Instead you get incredibly talented musicians and dancers who simply want to bring you the sound and fun of Ireland in an intimate and homely setting. The live music, Irish dancing and banter is...
Andy Fairweather Low and the Low Riders
Friday 7 March 2025
Andy Fairweather Low shot to fame as lead singer in Amen Corner singing massive hits like Bend Me Shape Me, Hello Suzy and (If Paradise is) Half As Nice. A hugely successful solo career followed with Wide Eyed and Legless being the biggest ...
Learn Harmonica (spring term 13 Jan-10 Mar 2025)
Monday 10 March 2025
We offer three classes for this workshop, a beginners session 6-7pm,?a returning beginners session at 7-8pm, and an intermediate session 8-9pm. If you are unsure which group to sign up for, please contact education@themet. org. uk. Workshop...
Chris Difford (Squeeze)
Thursday 13 March 2025
The Squeeze songwriter is a Grammy nominated and double Ivor Novello Award winning lyricist who has brought us characters and sketches from everyday life, and has successfully turned the mundane into the beautiful, the urbane into the exqu...
The Breath
Saturday 15 March 2025
Nominated for two BBC Radio 2 Folk Awards 2019, Rioghnach Connolly and Stuart McCallum are the creative heart of bewitching Manchester alt-folk act The Breath. And for them, it's all about the song. Connolly writes the only way she knows ho...
Metro Jazz (spring term 6 Jan-17 Mar 2025)
Monday 17 March 2025
Metro Jazz is open to anyone aged 16-100 (and beyond!) who plays an instrument to a competent standard (but don?t worry about grades) and is interested in learning about and playing jazz music. If you would consider yourself a beginner, can...
Grease
Wednesday 19 - Saturday 22 March 2025
After a whirlwind summer romance, leather-clad greaser Danny and girl-next-door Sandy are unexpectedly reunited when she transfers to Rydell High for senior year. But can they survive the trials and tribulations of teenage life and find tru...
PADOS Youth Theatre Group: 2025 Musical
Wednesday 19 - Saturday 22 March 2025
We?re not allowed to tell you just yet what it is, but tickets are on sale and check back on 1 January 2025 for the exciting news!...
Barbara
Wednesday 26 March 2025
A warm and affectionate show featuring plenty of belly laughs and a good sing-song, Barbara sensitively explores dementia, revealing what it means to care for someone you love when they lose their way. Soundtracked by a plethora of tasteful...
Chesney Hawkes
Thursday 27 March 2025
With his era-defining smash hit The One and Only, film star good looks and boy next door charm, Chesney Hawkes was one of the UK's biggest pop stars of the '90s. Three decades on, and now certifiably the kind of bloke you'd love to have a p...
Live/Wire - The AC/DC Show
Friday 28 March 2025
Live/Wire is the AC/DC Show. The hugely successful and unique six-man tribute to rock music's greatest band, AC/DC - complete with cannons, a wall of Marshalls and over two hours of High Voltage Rock 'n' Roll, in a show critically acclaimed...
Ultimate Coldplay - Tribute to Coldplay
Saturday 29 March 2025
A live tribute to Coldplay and performing all the Coldplay hits and more in a brilliant sound and look-a-like show. The vocals, mannerisms and atmosphere these guys deliver are second to none. Giving the audience that same high energy perfo...
The Manfreds
Thursday 3 April 2025
The '60s group Manfred Mann is now considered, more than ever, one of the finest and most respected bands from that era. Their numerous hits were R&B based with an undercurrent of jazz - a very unusual but winning combination of playing sty...
Moving Pictures - A Tribute to the Music of Rush
Friday 4 April 2025
Scottish power trio Moving Pictures play for over two hours covering all the Rush classics such as Tom Sawyer, The Spirit of Radio and Xanadu (with doubleneck guitars) plus some deeper cuts such as By Tor and later belters such as Far Cry a...
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