New Announcement Tickets on sale at 10am Friday 13 June: https://www.ticketsource.co.uk/butfirstpromotions One of Britain’s most cherished and inventive music creators Ed Harcourt will hit the road this autumn to tour behind an upcoming new release. Making his debut with the Mercury Prize-nominated Here Be Monsters in 2001, Harcourt has released music under his own name that blends raw emotions, impeccable songwriting and visionary flights of imagination. A succession of ten rich, enthralling albums have followed [read more…]

Katie Nicholas with Càel Oak:Katie Nicholas is an independent female producer, videographer and singer-songwriter from Liverpool with firm roots in country, folk and Americana. With a loyal community that has steadily been building, performing sold out shows at various theatres, galleries, museums, including her first headline show at the Liverpool Philharmonic accompanied by strings, her work has been recognised by the likes of Whispering Bob Harris (featuring on his Nashville Showcase Stage at AmericanaFest 2018) as [read more…]

2pm Wednesday 1st October £2 minimum donation Back In The Day by Melvyn Bragg In this captivating memoir, Melvyn Bragg recalls growing up in the Cumbrian market town of Wigton, from his early childhood during the war to the moment he had to decide between staying on or spreading his wings. This is the tale of a boy who lived in a pub and expected to leave school at fifteen yet won a scholarship to [read more…]

Celebrating the release of her third full-length album, Telling Truths, Leddra Chapman is continuing her run of live shows in 2025. Known for her emotive storytelling and “pitch perfect pop” (The Independent), Chapman’s career has drawn critical acclaim and notable industry support. Her debut album, Telling Tales, gained BBC Radio 2 backing and praise from Sir Terry Wogan, with Ed Sheeran naming it one of his "favourite albums of the year" (GQ). She also appeared [read more…]

Tickets £15 / Unders 18s £2 The New York Met Opera launches it's new season with this breathtaking production of Vincenzo Bellini's La Somnambula (The Sleepwalker). Following triumphant Met turns in Roméo et Juliette, La Traviata, and Lucia di Lammermoor, Nadine Sierra summits another peak of the soprano repertoire as Amina, who sleepwalks her way into audiences’ hearts in Bellini’s poignant tale of love lost and found. In his new production, director Rolando Villazón, retains [read more…]

Erin Harpe Country Blues Duo has been called “today’s country blues at its very best” by Living Blues Magazine, who crowned Erin “one of the finest fingerpicking acoustic blues singers in the land”.  The group showcases Erin’s exceptional vocals and mastery of finger-style blues guitar – which she does while also playing foot percussion & kazoo! Rounding out the pair’s full-band sound, Erin’s husband – Jim Countryman – provides the perfect counterpoint with grooving bass and backing vocals. [read more…]

Tickets £15 / Unders 18s £2 With its enchanting setting and spellbinding score, the world’s most popular opera is as timeless as it is heartbreaking. Franco Zeffirelli’s picture-perfect production brings 19th century Paris to the Met stage as Puccini’s young friends and lovers navigate the joy and struggle of bohemian life. Soprano Juliana Grigoryan is the feeble seamstress Mimì, opposite tenor Freddie De Tommaso as the ardent poet Rodolfo, whilst Keri-Lynn Wilson conducts. This stunning, [read more…]

Tickets £15 / Under 18s £2 Strauss’s elegant romance brings the glamour and enchantment of 19th century Vienna to the New York Met in a sumptuous production by legendary director Otto Schenk that “is as beautiful as one could hope” (The New York Times). Soprano Rachel Willis-Sørensen stars as the title heroine, a young noblewoman in search of love on her own terms. Radiant soprano Louise Alder is her sister, Zdenka, and bass-baritone Tomasz Konieczny [read more…]

Tickets £15 / Unders 18s £2 Umberto Giordano’s passionate tragedy stars tenor Piotr Beczała as the virtuous poet who falls victim to the intrigue and violence of the French Revolution. Following their celebrated recent partnership in Giordano’s Fedora in the 2022–23 Live in HD season, Beczała reunites with soprano Sonya Yoncheva as Chénier’s aristocratic lover, Maddalena di Coigny, with baritone Igor Golovatenko as Carlo Gérard, the agent of the Reign of Terror who seals their [read more…]