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The Ultimate Classic Rock Show

The Albert Halls, Bolton
Friday 14 November 2025
Dust off your air guitars for an evening of the very best classic rock anthems from legends past and present! Let The Ultimate Classic Rock Show take you on a roller coaster journey of classic rock nostalgia. Performing hit after hit live w...

Christone Kingfish Ingram

Albert Hall, Manchester
Wednesday 19 November 2025
  Heading to Europe, from his Mississippi Delta stomping grounds, Christone 'Kingfish' Ingram is the future of the blues, singing and playing with edge, verve and vitality. Stinging guitar... sweet and melodic vocals." - Guitar World. In a...

Colosseum

Band On The Wall, Manchester
Tuesday 25 November 2025
One of the most influential of the early British progressive rock bands, Colosseum fuse an adventurous approach to rock with strong jazz and blues influences and classical keyboard accents which brought them success in the late 1960s and ea...

Jesse Cook

The Stoller Hall, Manchester
Friday 28 November 2025
  An accomplished guitarist and producer, and equally prolific film maker, Canadian new flamenco musician Jesse Cook has evolved his talents to create experiences that delight audiences both in concert, and online. He composed his first al...

Jared James Nichols

Manchester Academy, Manchester
Saturday 29 November 2025
Jared James Nichols is an American blues-rock guitarist and singer from East Troy, Wisconsin, best known for his high-energy "pick-less" electric guitar playing technique ...

Tim Edey's Celtic Christmas

The Met, Bury
Friday 12 December 2025
An evening of Celtic Christmas music from multi-award-winning folk musician Tim Edey. Originally from Broadstairs in Kent and of Irish descent, Tim Edey honed his style learning from his father Richard, himself a fine guitarist, and liste...

Guns N' Yorkshire Roses - Tribute to Guns N' Roses

The Sound Lounge Darwen, Blackburn
Saturday 20 December 2025
Hailing from God's own county, Yorkshire, England, Guns N' Yorkshire Roses are an authentic tribute to the band Guns N' Roses, focusing on the classic era from 1987-1993. Featuring veteran members of the Yorkshire music scene, the band have...

Very Santana - The Ultimate Celebration of Carlos Santana

Band On The Wall, Manchester
Saturday 10 January 2026
 Sit back, relax, and enjoy the most beautiful guitar melodies and the amazingly creative, unique, diverse, and very challenging songs of Carlos Santana. All of which are played skilfully by this band of top-quality and musically highly ed...

Tommy Emmanuel

The Bridgewater Hall, Manchester
Friday 16 January 2026
  If you like guitar playing, it simply doesn't get any better than Tommy Emmanuel. Widely acknowledged as the international master of the solo acoustic guitar, Tommy has achieved enough musical milestones to satisfy several lifetimes. Or ...

The Classic Rock Show

Lowry, Salford
Monday 19 - Saturday 31 January 2026
The ultimate live juke box is back, bigger and even better, celebrating the very best-of-the-best of Classic Rock. Paying tribute to its favourite rock heroes CRS thunders through legendary performances from the likes of Queen, Led Zeppelin...

Dave Kelly & Paul Jones (The Blues Band)

The Met, Bury
Thursday 12 February 2026
Two blues legends, one unforgettable performance. Paul Jones and Dave Kelly are two of the UK's most revered and respected blues musicians. Together they have played alongside the greats, including Howlin' Wolf, John Lee Hooker, and Sonn...

Smith/Kotzen

O2 Ritz, Manchester
Friday 13 February 2026
The exciting partnership between guitarists & vocalists Adrian Smith of Iron Maiden, and Richie Kotzen of The Winery Dogs has been described by the Ultimate Classic Rock as a mix of "blues, hard rock, traditional R&B and more". Part-time LA...

A Foreigner's Journey - The Music of Foreigner and Journey

Blackburn Empire Theatre, Blackburn
Saturday 21 February 2026
Legendary bands Foreigner and Journey are giants of the AOR (Adult Orientated Rock) and Classic Rock genres, attracting huge audiences as live acts since forming in the 1970's. Sadly for those in the UK, their shows over here have been few ...

Hallé & Jonny Greenwood (Radiohead) Performs Reich

The Bridgewater Hall, Manchester
Thursday 26 February 2026
Following on from its highly acclaimed 2024 festival celebrating the works of Steve Reich, the Halle is once again joined by conductor and percussionist Colin Currie and Radiohead's Jonny Greenwood for a concert of some of Reich's most well...

Samantha Fish

O2 Ritz, Manchester
Wednesday 4 March 2026
The boundary-breaking rising star in the contemporary blues world is a charismatic young singer-guitarist-songwriter who has earned a reputation as a rising guitar hero and powerful live performer, while releasing a series of acclaimed alb...

WILLE & THE BANDITS

Night & Day Cafe, Manchester
Wednesday 11 March 2026
Cornwall's Wille and the Bandits have been praised by critics for being one of the most dynamic bands around the globe, as they move from riff-tastic rock and roll to more acoustic sensibilities that only few bands manage. The use of strin...

WILLE & THE BANDITS

The Night And Day Caf?, Manchester
Wednesday 11 March 2026
Cornwall's Wille and the Bandits have been praised by critics for being one of the most dynamic bands around the globe, as they move from riff-tastic rock and roll to more acoustic sensibilities that only few bands manage. The use of strin...

Gipsy Kings featuring Nicolas Reyes

O2 Apollo, Manchester
Friday 13 March 2026
  One of three line-ups currently touring, Gipsy Kings featuring original vocalist Nicolas Reyes will be bringing their Catalan rumba, flamenco, and salsa party to town. Founded in 1979 in Arles, France, by French born Catalan musicians fr...

MILOŠ

RNCM, Manchester
Sunday 22 March 2026 - Monday 22 March 2027
Born in Montenegro, Milos Karadaglic is one of the world's most celebrated classical guitarists. His career began its meteoric rise in 2011, with the release of his international best-selling Deutsche Grammophon debut album Mediterraneo. S...

Thundercat

Aviva Studios, Manchester
Thursday 26 - Friday 27 March 2026
Multi-Grammy award winning virtuosic R&B/funk bassist and singer Thundercat is the alter ego of Stephen Bruner, a mercurial talent who is highly respected and much in-demand with his peers. Alongside his own solo releases, including UK Top...

La Orquesta Sinfónica de Galicia & Thibaut Garcia

The Bridgewater Hall, Manchester
Monday 13 April 2026
Star guitarist Thibaut Garcia joins the OSG (Galicia Symphony Orchestra) to bring some gorgeous Spanish sunshine to theUK. Joaquin Rodrigo's Concierto de Aranjuez is an icon in Spanish music, and surely the greatest guitar concerto ever wri...

Love with Johnny Echols

Band On The Wall, Manchester
Thursday 23 April 2026
Iconic 60's Los Angeles psychedelic folk rockers LOVE, with original guitarist Johnny Echols, sees Arthur Lee's longest serving band perform classic songs from Love's first three albums Love, Da Capo, Four Sail and of course Forever Changes...

YES

The Bridgewater Hall, Manchester
Friday 1 May 2026
  After their hugely successful 'Classic Tales Of Yes' UK Tour in 2024, Progressive Rock legends, YES, return to perform their 1971 classic album, Fragile, in its entirety, including such timeless songs as 'Heart of the Sunrise', 'South S...

King of Pop starring Navi featuring Jennifer Batten

St Mary's Chambers, Rossendale
Friday 8 May 2026
King of Pop celebrates the life and work of Michael Jackson, through note-perfect recreations of his many huge hits, starring the world's leading MJ tribute artist Navi, who is joined on stage by Jackson's iconic guitarist - Jennifer Batt...

Death of Guitar Pop

The Bread Shed, Manchester
Friday 15 May 2026
Essex duo Silky and Top Kat bringin' the "4th wave of ska!" ...

Tinariwen

O2 Ritz, Manchester
Friday 22 May 2026
Tinariwen is a collective of Tuareg musicians from the Sahara region of northern Mali. Considered pioneers of desert blues, the group's guitar-driven style combines traditional Tuareg and African music with Western rock music. ...

A Foreigner's Journey - The Music of Foreigner and Journey

The Citadel Theatre, St Helens
Saturday 22 August 2026
Legendary bands Foreigner and Journey are giants of the AOR (Adult Orientated Rock) and Classic Rock genres, attracting huge audiences as live acts since forming in the 1970's. Sadly for those in the UK, their shows over here have been few ...

Mike Dawes

The Stoller Hall, Manchester
Saturday 19 September 2026
Heavily influenced by folk, pop, and rock music, Surrey fingerstyle guitar player Mike Dawes is hailed as one of the world's finest modern acoustic guitar players. He was voted 'Best Acoustic Guitarist in the World' by Total Guitar Magazine...

DS:UK…in Tribute to Dire Straits ON anoTHEr NIGHT

Blackburn Empire Theatre, Blackburn
Friday 9 October 2026
DS:UK - The ON anoTHEr NIGHT TOUR - 20261991 brought us the final Dire Straits album - On Every Street - and wascommemorated by an enormous 2 year world tour that was one of theirmost successful to date. In On Every Street, Mark created som...

Steve Hackett - Genesis Revisited

The Bridgewater Hall, Manchester
Tuesday 20 October 2026
Prog legend Steve Hackett's timeless guitar-work was woven throughout Genesis' classic 70's catalogue of albums. In recent years he and his outstanding touring line-up of Roger King (keyboards), Nad Sylvan (vocals), Jonas Reingold (bas...
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