What's On
After two years in the dark, the lights on the RNCM Opera stage have been switched back on. To mark the occasion, they are performing two fully staged operas in an exciting double bill programme.
Below The Bridge is an all-day live music event featuring the best new bands and singer-songwriters from across Manchester.
Award-winning Trinidad-born poet, novelist, academic and musician Anthony Joseph hosts a special lecture that blends music and poetry at Manchester Poetry Library.
Love Noughties UK presents the end of year party….. Love Noughties New Years Eve the 90s Throwback Edition.
Ultimate Power isn’t just for Christmas, no, the biggest songs, the biggest hair and the biggest guitar solos return to ring in the New Year at The Ritz
Hatch is transformed into a neon-drenched Winter Wonderland of shopping, music food and drink. The perfect alternative Christmas destination from 12th to 22nd of December.
Anika – the project of Berlin-based musician Annika Henderson who is also a founding member of Exploded View – is performing at YES in support of her first new album in over a decade.
A carol service hosted by the Christian Unions of Manchester: involving bible readings, carols, short performances and a talk.
The RNCM String Orchestra welcomes violinist Daniel Pioro to direct a curated programme of contemporary works and arrangements.
The biggest emotions. The biggest guitar solos. The biggest power ballads of all time (plus a few festive classics thrown in for good measure)
The RNCM Chamber Choir perform a short programme of sacred works on the 3rd of December in the calm surroundings of Oxford Road’s Holy Name Church
Steve Berry directs RNCM Big Band with guests the ‘deeply soulful, and wonder-fully honest’ Liane Carroll and Jazz Instrumentalist of the Year Josephine Davies.
Fairport Convention’s new tour will be a mix of long-established favourites and some surprises from albums old and new including their latest.
Wilko Johnson, the original Dr Feelgood guitarist and all-round national treasure returns to the live music arena at RNCM.
Longstanding electronic titans The Orb stop by The Ritz on their You Can’t Fit Sense Where There’s None tour this summer.