JAZZ & BLUES IN MANCHESTER
Most Popular Jazz & Blues in Manchester
Sat 8 Jun 2024 - Fri 25 Apr 2025
Sat 13 Jul 2024 - Sat 29 Mar 2025
Sat 1 Jun - Fri 11 Oct 2024
The Black Crowes
Tuesday 14 May 2024
Although essentially a modern blues rock group, chart-topping Atlanta, Georgia brothers Chris and Rich Robinson, better known as The Black Crowes, cite many musical influences, such as psychedelic pop from the 1960s, Lynyrd Skynyrd, the Rol...
Nonunonu
Tuesday 14 May 2024
Nonunonu have been making waves playing major gigs around the North West including Manchester International Festival, Lancaster Jazz Festival and Manchester Jazz festival. Groove based jazz loaf fresh out the oven, Nonunonu are a Guitar tri...
The Black Keys
Wednesday 15 May 2024
Entering the third decade of their existence, chart-topping Ohio duo Dan Auerbach and Patrick Carney celebrate the twentieth anniversary of their 2002 debut album 'The Big Come Up' with more rough blues-rock directly linking back to the ban...
Rakim
Wednesday 15 May 2024
Despite his celebrated partnership with Queens DJ Eric B, whose intricately constructed soundscapes made an excellent match for Rakim's more cerebral presence on the mike, the North Island rapper never became a household name, but is near-u...
BrassWerk - A 10-Piece Brass Band Perform Arctic Monkeys
Thursday 16 - Sunday 26 May 2024
Celebrating the Arctic Monkeys' anthemic album 'AM', a 10-piece brass band perform it cover to cover alongside some other Arctic Monkeys favourites. From the foot-stomping 'Do I Wanna Know?' and 'R U Mine?' to the clever lyricism of 'Arabe...
Robbie Cavanagh
Thursday 16 May 2024
Award-winning artist Robbie Cavanagh released Tough Love ? his much-anticipated third record - in May 2023, and in the months since has been touring prolifically as a headline artist, as well as in support of American trio The Wood Brothers...
A Certain Ratio
Friday 17 May 2024
Mancunian Post-Punk legends ACR's greatest strength has always been their unpredictability. They've always moved with gleeful disregard for the boundaries of style and genre, their eye fixed firmly on constant progression. It's an ethos tha...
Aaron West + The Roaring Twenties
Friday 17 May 2024
The creation of Dan Campbell, best known as the vocalist of Philadelphia band, The Wonder Years, who performs the songs live in character for a show that feels in part theatric, Aaron West and The Roaring Twenties is as much a band as it ...
Eric Clapton
Saturday 18 May 2024
Eric Clapton's solo career has seen him become, arguably, the UK's most influential and commercially successful guitarist after his formative years as a member of classic groups The Yardbirds, John Mayall's Bluesbreakers, Cream and Blind Fa...
Nikki Iles Jazz Orchestra
Saturday 18 May 2024
Award-winning pianist and composer, Nikki Iles, takes her 20-piece Jazz Orchestra on a national tour, marking a new chapter in a long and distinguished career in British jazz. She gathers commissions from over the years, new orchestrations ...
Nearly Dan - The Spirit & Sound Of Steely Dan
Saturday 18 May 2024
Less tribute and more homage, Nearly Dan is saviour to the growing legions of Dan fans, desperate to hear the meticulously crafted grooves and allusive lyrical style of Donald Fagen & Walter Becker. Nearly Dan's approach is faithful, thou...
Manchester Got Soul
Saturday 18 May - Sunday 30 June 2024
With live music + DJs across both floors of Blues Kitchen from 10pm - 3am, the house band take to the stage for three live sets. Expect to hear the hits of Aretha Franklin, Fleetwood Mac, Stevie Wonder & The Rolling Stones. ...
Eros to Agape
Saturday 18 May 2024
Part of Manchester Gospel Fest This event is a introduction to the reality of love in all it's dimensions from the perspective of Jesus Christ....
Fergus McCreadie
Sunday 19 May 2024
In the dynamic landscape of contemporary jazz, Scottish pianist and composer Fergus McCreadie has carved a remarkable niche....
Vieux Farka Touré
Wednesday 22 May 2024
Malian blues and jazz singer, composer and guitarist Vieux Farka Toure returns to the UK to tour, for the first time, his traditional acoustic quartet. He'll bring his own compositions to the stage as well as well loved classics of his le...
Purple Collective presents: SHARE Vol. 6
Wednesday 22 May 2024
For the final time this side of summer, Purple Collective return to Fuel for a night of poetry and live music in the heart of Withington....
Gordon Giltrap & John Etheridge
Thursday 23 May 2024
Gordon Giltrap and John Etheridge - two of the UK's most respected and influential guitarists - join forces for an unforgettable evening of top-class musicianship. These innovative guitarists will be performing many of their incredible song...
Nubiyan Twist
Thursday 23 May 2024
Woven around soul searching, cautionary tales and parables for modern life, the Leeds / London collective effortlessly fuse different soul, jazz and global styles with great musicianship and lyrics. You can hear touches of broken beat, blun...
Bob Log III
Thursday 23 May 2024
Tucson, AZ-based blues-punk primitive Bob Log III first surfaced a member of the art-noise group Mondo Guano, later serving as one half of the duo Doo Rag. Wearing his now-trademark motorcycle helmet onstage for protection from crowds, he p...
His Lordship
Thursday 23 May 2024
His Lordship, one of the most explosive and exciting live acts to emerge from the UK in years, announce a fresh set of explosive UK live dates for May. This comes hot off the back of the release of their debut self-titled album ? produced b...
Tim Garland's Lighthouse Trio
Friday 24 May 2024
Twenty years ago, Canterbury saxophonist Tim Garland launched his Lighthouse Trio - a truly unmatched and formidable acoustic band where interplay is paramount. 2024 sees the 20th anniversary of this international trio that also features pi...
Hallé - Tony Bennett: the Music and Songs of a Legend
Saturday 25 May 2024
From his recording debut in the 1950s to his collaboration with Lady Gaga, Tony Bennett's seventy-year career has been characterised by class, style and an ear for a great song. In this spectacular programme, conductor Richard Balcombe, the...
John Surman
Saturday 25 May 2024
British composer, saxophonist and clarinettist John Surman will be 80 in 2024, and in the lead up to this milestone, he will continue his musical adventures with a new band and CD called Words Unspoken. Words Unspoken is a development of hi...
Aziz Ibrahim
Saturday 25 May 2024
Aziz Ibrahim is best known as a guitarist with The Stone Roses and Ian Brown, co-writing songs such as "My Star", "Corpses in Their Mouths", "Longsight M13", "One Way Ticket to Paradise" and numerous other tracks from "Unfinished Monkey Bus...
Courtney Pine
Sunday 26 May 2024
No musician embodies more the dramatic transformation in the British jazz scene over the past thirty years than Courtney Pine. His debut album, Journey To The Urge Within in 1987, was the first serious jazz album ever to make the British To...
Jerry Leger & The Situation
Sunday 26 May 2024
Songwriters such as Ron Sexsmith, Doug Paisley and outlets such as Rolling Stone and PopMatters have sung the praises of the Toronto folk singer/songwriter, who displays a finely honed artistic vision that has been evident since 2005 when, ...
An Evening With CHIMERA
Monday 27 May 2024
Come join us for an eclectic evening of Blues, Rock, Funk and Soul to take a cheeky break from exams and dance the night awaySee you at Fuel x...
Puerto Candelaria
Tuesday 28 May 2024
Puerto Candelaria Latin Grammy winners 2019 (Best Cumbia Album) is an innovative and passionate Colombian band....
Barry Adamson
Wednesday 29 May 2024
Musician, composer, writer, photographer, director. The list of creative jobs that Mancunian Barry Adamson has occupied in his career is long. Whether as a member of Nick Cave And The Bad Seeds, Magazine, Buzzcocks, and Visage, as a guest m...
Dana Gavanski
Wednesday 29 May 2024
The London-based Canadian indie folk singer-songwriter, of Serbian descent, spins her heartbreaking solitude into beauty with spindling hooks, fantastic dulcet vocal tones and twinkling notes. ...
Delvon Lamarr Organ Trio
Wednesday 29 May 2024
Delivering an infectious blend of soul, jazz and rhythm & blues, the Delvon Lamarr Organ Trio proves to be a band on the rise....
Crooners
Thursday 30 May 2024
Packed with personality and humour, Crooners have been wowing audiences with their witty and exhilarating show full of hilarious one liners, laugh out loud silliness and superb musical numbers with the outstanding 9-piece The Mini Big Band ...
Elephant Gym
Thursday 30 May 2024
Formed in 2012 in Kaohsiung City, Taiwan, the experimental trio Elephant Gym interlace variousthreads of jazz, electronic, and classical into a singular patchwork of contemporary math and post-rock. At once evoking the towering, boisterous...
Elephant Gym
Thursday 30 May 2024
Formed in 2012 in Kaohsiung City, Taiwan, the experimental trio Elephant Gym interlace variousthreads of jazz, electronic, and classical into a singular patchwork of contemporary math and post-rock. At once evoking the towering, boisterous...
Go Your Own Way - The Fleetwood Mac Legacy
Friday 31 May 2024
Go Your Own Way is a brand new spellbinding show featuring the music from the legendary multiple Grammy Award Winning Fleetwood Mac. Their rock n roll legacy is beautifully performed by a highly talented and acclaimed ensemble of musicians ...
Caoilfhionn Rose
Friday 31 May 2024
Caoilfhionn Rose (pronounced Keelin), is a singer, songwriter and producer who was born in Manchester, England, with family roots in Northern Ireland and Yorkshire. Emerging from a diverse music scene, she ties together remnants of Manches...
