WHAT'S ON AT THE MET, BURY
What's On at The Met, Bury
Most Popular Shows and Events at The Met, Bury
Thu 5 Oct - Thu 7 Dec 2023
What's On at The Met, Bury
The School of Curiosity
Monday 2 - Monday 30 October 2023
Is your child aged between 10 and 14 and bursting with creativity?Do they love reading, making, and telling stories?Do they have a passion for exploring the world of imagination?Well, then, look no further! Welcome to The School of Curiosi...
Leaps and Bounds
Monday 2 - Monday 30 October 2023
Leaps and Bounds is our weekly dance workshop incorporating different dance styles for children aged 5 ? 11, of all abilities, encouraging them to get active and have fun through movement and music. Classes are run by Danielle who also runs...
First Thursday Comedy
Thursday 5 October - Thursday 7 December 2023
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. ...
Starlite & Campbell present Starlite.One
Friday 6 October 2023
Award-winners Starlite & Campbell are set to release their fresh studio album Starlite. One in September 2023 supported by an electrifying sixteen-day UK headline tour and a special homecoming concert for Bury-born Simon Campbell, featuring...
Pierre Schryer & Seán Gray
Friday 6 October 2023
Whenever Canadian top gun Pierre Schryer chooses a playing partner for a project, you can bet it will be a cr?me de la cr?me pairing. With guitar maestro Adam Dobres by his side, they made a major impact around the world. RnR magazine said ...
Our Man In The Field
Saturday 7 October 2023
Think of Our Man In The Field ? aka Alexander Ellis ? as an independent correspondent with his works dispatches from his travels. So classically crafted are Ellis? songs that you could be forgiven for thinking you have heard Our Man In The ...
Meet Me at The Met
Monday 9 - Monday 30 October 2023
We are inviting you to join us in our beautiful building to chat about all things arty, find out about what we have on offer, learn some new skills and tell us what you want from us. Join us twice-monthly on Mondays starting from 11 Septemb...
New Dawn Fades: A Play About Joy Division and Manchester
Wednesday 11 - Thursday 12 October 2023
The brand-new stage production of New Dawn Fades: A Play About Joy Division & Manchester celebrates its 10th anniversary. The new touring production is written by Brian Gorman, produced & directed by Giles D Bastow and Sean Mason fo...
Gasper Nali
Wednesday 11 October 2023
Gasper Nali is a roots one-man-band from the small town of Nkhata Bay on the shores of Lake Malawi. He plays a one-string home-made three-metre long Babatoni bass guitar with a stick and an empty beer bottle, and together with a cow skin ki...
Gasper Nali + Michael Mountain
Wednesday 11 October 2023
He plays a one-string home-made three-metre long Babatoni bass guitar with a stick and an empty beer bottle, and together with a cow skin kick drum and catchy melodies, he creates the most amazing and danceable original Afro Beats possible!...
The Enid
Friday 13 October 2023
Defining the music of The Enid is never easy. The Guardian described the band as ?Pink Floyd meets The Orb meets the Berlin Philharmonic?. The BBC said, ?The Enid is the only band on the planet to have successfully fused rock-based music wi...
Jesca Hoop
Saturday 14 October 2023
Beautiful, subtle and stark the Manchester-based Californian folk star serves up stunningly original songs - minimalist yet brimming with energy, emerging from a wealth of life experience, great emotional depth, and years of honing the craf...
Clive Carroll plays the music of John Renbourn
Sunday 15 October 2023
For those who followed the folk revival of the 1960?s and the music of the cult band Pentangle, John Renbourn?s music needs little introduction. Spanning musical genres from blues and jazz through to folk, early music and original compositi...
Met Express
Monday 16 - Tuesday 17 October 2023
Met Express is The Met's very own learning disability theatre company. Met Express is an inclusive and accessible group run by expert facilitators with a diverse membership with a range of different disabilities. Sessions run Mondays and T...
Bury Youth Theatre
Tuesday 17 - Wednesday 18 October 2023
Our very own Youth Theatre is a supportive environment where young people come together to learn new skills and create their own shows. Led by highly trained professional facilitators, BYT can help young people find their first steps on the...
Tony Monroe is Dead
Thursday 19 October 2023
From the producers of Vaping, Manscaping & Paddling Pools and Our Kelly's Hen Do, Tony Monroe Is Dead is Bury-based MaD Theatre Company's latest irreverent comedy. Kylie is marrying her childhood sweetheart Jason and she wants her spec...
Kiki Dee & Carmelo Luggeri
Friday 20 October 2023
For almost two decades, Kiki and Carmelo have been touring their spellbinding acoustic live show across the UK and Europe. Performing in this stripped back fashion allows each of their exceptional talents to shine through and create a wonde...
The Bon Jovi Experience
Saturday 21 October 2023
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...
Aiming High
Saturday 21 October 2023
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...
Popstar Parties
Saturday 21 - Sunday 29 October 2023
Our popstar parties put you and your friends centre-stage with a VIP-style recording session in our state-of-the-art music studio. Enjoy a drink on arrival, take part in a photoshoot with a professional photographer, then record your chosen...
MAKE SOME NOISE
Wednesday 25 October 2023
Dommy B shares a surprising story about growing up, finding a brilliant (but naughty) imaginary friend, becoming ?Junk the Punk? and joining a great school band (Whizzkid and the Veggie Burgers)!There?ll be rhymes, jokes, and lots of opport...
The Three Little Pigs
Thursday 26 - Friday 27 October 2023
Suitable for all the family (recommended for ages 3-10), be blown away by the world of Stuff & Nonsense Theatre Company in this joyful retelling of a classic tale. Told in a unique physical style with raucous puppets, this is high-octane fa...
Emerging Showcase: Ben P Williams + Harriet Rose
Friday 27 October 2023
Ben P Williams is a difficult artist to pigeonhole and is all the better for it. Discovering The Beatles LP?s in his parents cupboard aged five, he instantly became obsessed and began a voyage of musical discovery which has lasted his whole...
The Stumble
Saturday 28 October 2023
Born out of the blues resurgence coming out of Glasgow in the 90?s, they are a band well known and revered for their original spin on old school Chicago blues, British r&b and soul infused feel-good music from the fifties right through to t...
Ultimate Coldplay - Tribute to Coldplay
Thursday 2 November 2023
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...
Moulettes (Acoustic)
Friday 3 November 2023
Following a summer season of acoustic and electric shows,?Moulettes are delighted to come to The Met as part of their Canadian and UK acoustic tour in celebration of their gigantic and groundbreaking fifth album project, Xenolalia. Stretchi...
King King
Saturday 4 November 2023
Right now, King King are a band breaking into a swagger. There's no denying the momentum of the Glasgow rockers saluted as "the best blues-rock band in the world" (Blues Rock Review). But for Alan Nimmo (vocals/guitar), Zander Greenshields ...
Learn Harmonica (11 Sep - 6 Nov)
Monday 6 November 2023
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...
Bury Beer Festival 2023
Friday 10 - Saturday 11 November 2023
Our historic Derby Hall will be taken over for two days of drinking and discussing (but mostly drinking) brilliant beers from Bury?s local breweries. There?ll be brewery bars with a range of cask and keg creations from across the area, plus...
Sarah Smout
Friday 10 November 2023
Her music has been played on BBC Radio 2, BBC Look North, and has been used for environmental campaigns by Greenpeace, COP26 and Yorkshire Wildlife Trust. Prior to her solo career, she toured and recorded internationally with renowned artis...
Joshua Burnell: The Glass Knight Tour
Saturday 11 November 2023
Expect hooky melodies drenched in warm, retro-synth textures, reverbing guitars, lush harmonies and words that make you think. Imagine The War On Drugs meets Genesis with ?lashings of Peter Gabriel stylings? (The Guardian). Joshua?s upcomin...
Bury and A Leaning Tower
Wednesday 15 November 2023
Bury Cine Society explores our local area in recent times and discovers the restoration of a leaning church tower near the town centre in a production which took three years instead of the expected six months!...
Malin Lewis with Jon Doran
Thursday 16 November 2023
One of Scotland?s most exciting innovators, Malin melds tradition with electronics on a unique newly invented, self-made bagpipe. Hair tingling, philosophical and dance inducing melodies inspired by European folk traditions, humans, queerne...
The Haunting of Blaine Manor
Friday 17 November 2023
Renowned American parapsychologist Doctor Roy Earle, famous for discrediting hauntings and exposing fake mediums, is invited to attend a seance in what is said to be the most haunted building in England, a building with a horrific history, ...
China Crisis
Saturday 18 November 2023
Eddie Lundon and Gary Daly are the founder members of the band which started in Kirkby, Merseyside back in 1979. China Crisis found major success in the UK with five Top 40 singles, ten Top 50 singles and three Top 40 albums and hits across...
John Kelly Trio
Saturday 18 November 2023
?I have been singing since I was eight, brought up with Irish music loving parents, and vinyl and cassettes all over the house, music has been my life. Musically, I am self taught. I started a band in my teens (Another Dead Rabbit) writing ...
Singing workshop for low voices by The Sunday Boys
Sunday 19 November 2023
Michael will be joined by a small number of the choir to take you through some simple choral exercises, group singing techniques and you?ll learn some simple 3-part pieces to experience what it?s like to sing as part of an ensemble. No prev...
Flook
Thursday 23 November 2023
"In the pantheon of Irish/English folk groups they don't come much more revered than Flook." Irish PostTaking inspiration from their roots in the Irish and English traditions, Flook have an enviable trademark sound, weaving and spinning ...
A Foreigner's Journey - The Music of Foreigner and Journey
Friday 24 November 2023
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 ...
Emerging Showcase: NQ Legacy Take-Over
Friday 24 November 2023
Tonya ? Silky smooth vocals and mesmerising harmonies define Tonya?s unique RnB sound. Music has been the core of Tonya?s childhood growing up in North London, and experiencing a wide array of music developed her ear for melodies and abilit...
James Grant
Saturday 25 November 2023
Drawing from a broad palette of pop, folk, soul, country and blues influences, and interweaving his solo compositions with Love and Money favourites, he twins darkly literate, melodically lush song-craft with his richly potent vocals and vi...
YolanDa Brown
Saturday 25 November 2023
For some, world-wide touring and critically acclaimed albums would be satisfaction enough. Not for YolanDa Brown, she wears many hats, musician, broadcaster, author, philanthropist and wears them well? with passion and full of vigour. Yolan...
YolanDa's Band Jam
Saturday 25 November 2023
YolanDa?s Band Jam is the critically acclaimed CBeebies children?s TV show presented by double MOBO award winning musician and broadcaster YolanDa Brown. Dubbed ?Jools Holland for kids?, YolanDa?s Band Jam encourages children to discover th...
Michele Stodart
Sunday 26 November 2023
Caribbean-born Michele Stodart is an award-winning solo artist, singer-songwriter, and multi-instrumentalist now based in London. Best renowned as bassist, vocalist and co-songwriter of Mercury-nominated, double-platinum selling band, The M...
Mostly Autumn
Sunday 26 November 2023
Mostly Autumn?s latest album Graveyard Star released late 2021 has been very highly acclaimed and follows on from the nomination for best UK band, and best album (White Rainbow) in the Progressive Music Awards 2019. They were winners of Bes...
Metro Jazz (18 Sep - 27 Nov)
Monday 27 November 2023
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...
Scott Matthews
Friday 1 December 2023
Scott Matthews? ground-breaking debut album, Passing Stranger earned him serious critical acclaim with its bold mix of folk, rock, blues and Eastern-inspired song-writing, and in 2007 his first single Elusive won the Ivor Novello Award for ...
The ABBA Reunion Tribute Show
Saturday 2 December 2023
Created by the director, producer and choreographer of the award-winning ABBAMANIA musical and starring the original 'Frida' from the London West End cast! Superbly accurate harmony vocals, guitar and keyboards combine with stunning replica...
ABBA Reunion Christmas Party
Saturday 2 December 2023
The ABBA Reunion tribute Show is the creation of an award-winning West End director, producer and choreographer. Starring the original ?Frida? from the London West End cast!ABBA Reunion gives Abba fans, old and new, the opportunity to once ...
Blind Side
Wednesday 6 December 2023
Summer is the only girl on her school football team, and with so much at stake at a crucial cup game, her coach has made her Captain. But her phone just won?t stop pinging as she sits alone in the changing room. Nasty texts and hurtful comm...
Most Popular Shows and Events at The Met, Bury
Thu 5 Oct - Thu 7 Dec 2023
