WHAT'S ON AT THE MET, BURY
What's On at The Met, Bury
Most Popular Shows and Events at The Met, Bury
What's On at The Met, Bury
Cut It Out Collage Club
Wednesday 9 July 2025
Come and have a relaxed evening of collage, chat, chill and creation at the Two Crows Arts Studio. Open to anyone looking to do something a little more relaxed and different, at all levels of experience, the Collage Club is an open group wh...
Beatles Complete - Tribute to The Beatles
Friday 11 July 2025
Direct from the world famous Cavern Club, Liverpool, Beatles Complete present a night of Beatlemania packed with massive hits from the most influential band of all time. This Liverpool based 'beat combo' are the youngest ever Beatles band...
Snip and Stitch Workshop with Amber Lily Studio
Friday 11 July 2025
This time join Amber Lily for her Snip and Stitch textile workshop, a playful dive into fabric collage and hand embroidery. Explore using a mood board for inspiration, experiment with layering fabrics, and learn appliqu? and mark-making tec...
Met Express Drama Group
Monday 14 - Tuesday 15 July 2025
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 Dance
Monday 14 July 2025
Join us in Bury Youth Dance to develop skills, create new work, perform at a range of platforms and make connections to build career paths in dance. This company is for 11-18 year olds who already have some grounding in dance and movement a...
Meet Me at The Met
Monday 14 July 2025
Come and join us in our beautiful building to get involved in multiple activities as well as making new friendships! From mono printing to drumming workshops, we do it all and everything in between! We even have complimentary teas and coffe...
Metro Jazz (summer term 24 Mar - 23 Jun 2025)
Monday 14 July 2025
Metro Jazz is open to anyone aged 18-100 (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...
Life Drawing with Two Crows Studios
Tuesday 15 July 2025
Basic materials are available and every session has a thought out playlist to guarantee an atmosphere to inspire your creativity. The bar will be open serving a wide variety of quality drinks....
Get A Round In
Friday 18 July - Friday 19 September 2025
This regular event at The Met features three artists sharing the stage to showcase their songwriting talent and tell the stories behind their music. Expect the very best of Greater Manchester?s acoustic talent. Our March event features?Born...
Qawwali Night
Friday 18 July 2025
Experience the magic of traditional Sufi Qawwali, as our passionate performers from Amaan Qawwals take you on a journey through timeless melodies and powerful lyrics that touch the heart and uplift the spirit. Whether you?re a long-time lov...
The Secret Storytelling Club
Friday 18 July 2025
The Secret Storytelling Club invites you to an unforgettable evening of captivating tales, spine tingling songs, and thought-provoking conversations. It?s not just an event, it?s an immersive experience where stories are spoken, songs are s...
Aiming High
Saturday 19 July 2025
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...
Beat The Drum - The Runrig Experience
Saturday 19 July 2025
Following a triumphant run of over fifty sold-out performances across Europe in 2024, The Runrig Experience is set to hit the road once again in 2025! Returning to some beloved venues and making exciting new stops along the way, this tour p...
The School of Curiosity (Summer term 28 Apr - 21 Jul 2025)
Saturday 19 July 2025
Is your child 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 Curiosity ? a thrilling creative lea...
Tuesday Meet-Up
Tuesday 22 July 2025
The idea is to have a social diverse space giving the chance to chat draw and create, (there will always be prompts and materials provided each month), in a decent chilled unique environment with music and a bar serving a wide variety of dr...
Jam and Sketch at the Two Crows
Wednesday 23 July 2025
Whatever the medium, all ideas or influences are welcome from avant garde to pop culture: be inspired, meet new people to jam with, do some sketching with the materials provided and be part of a night of top creativity....
Art bEATs
Saturday 26 July 2025
Art bEATs is a free to attend social event presented in partnership with our friends Two Crows Studios. We firmly believe that art is for everyone, so we?re opening up the doors to The Met?s Social Hub ? and home of Two Crows Arts Studio ? ...
The Bookshop Band
Saturday 26 July 2025
Formed in September 2010, they released their first album two months later and have since released thirteen albums collaborating with over one-hundred authors, including Philip Pullman, Louis de Bernieres and Margaret Atwood. They have tour...
The Met Drama Summer School
Monday 4 August 2025
Does your child love performing? Are you looking for theatre to make your little one?s summer? Children aged 6-10 are invited to join us for our very own Summer School! One whole week full of fun-filled days of drama where they will have th...
First Thursday Comedy
Thursday 7 August - Thursday 2 October 2025
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. ...
Bury Youth Dance Day Camp
Tuesday 12 August 2025
Bury Youth Dance Day Camp ? One Day Only!Are you ready to move, create, and perform?Join us for an action-packed day of dance at our Contemporary Dance Day Camp in Bury ? perfect for young movers aged 11-18. What to expect:No experience? No...
Glaston-Bury at The Met
Monday 25 August 2025
We?ll be announcing the line-up very soon. Glaston-Bury is an independently organised, non-profit event which takes place?at venues across Bury town centre every August Bank Holiday Monday, raising money for Bury Hospice and other local cau...
Eliza Marshall
Wednesday 3 September 2025
Cross genre music making has always been at the core of flautist Eliza Marshall?s creative world, with a particular love of the music of Scotland and Africa, Steve Reich and Paul Simon. Weaving layers of rhythms, percussion and electronics,...
Heather Ferrier Trio
Friday 12 September 2025
Heather Ferrier completely charmed a packed Bridgwater Hall in Manchester for the opening ceremony of the thirtieth annual WOMEX in October 2024, with her disarming personality and virtuoso playing of the accordion, but when she put down th...
Well Said
Saturday 13 September 2025
A trip down memory lane with cherished originals from their past, alongside their unique mix of brass-driven ska/rock/pop cover versions. Don?t miss this celebration of a band at the top of the Bury music scene for the past four decades. Pl...
Jon Boden & The Remnant Kings (Bellowhead)
Wednesday 17 September 2025
Bellowhead frontman and one half of Spiers & Boden, Jon Boden founded his band The Remnant Kings in 2009 to perform the album 'Songs from the Floodplain', the first in his post-apocalyptic trilogy of self-penned albums. They were reunited t...
Chris Difford (Squeeze)
Thursday 18 September 2025
The Squeeze songwriter is a Grammy nominated and double Ivor Novello Award winning lyricist who has brought us characters and sketches from everyday life, and has successfully turned the mundane into the beautiful, the urbane into the exqu...
The Smiths Ltd - The Smiths Tribute Band
Friday 19 - Saturday 20 September 2025
The Smiths Ltd was formed in Manchester, UK the hometown of The Smiths. After an extensive search to find the perfect Morrissey, the band played their first gig in Manchester to an audience of avid Smiths fans. The response was spectacular...
Christine Collister: Children of the Sea
Wednesday 24 September 2025
Christine Collister?s career now spans an incredible forty years. Over that bridge of time she has released twenty four albums, a DVD celebrating twenty years in the business, and an acclaimed single with the BBC: the theme tune for The Lif...
Emerging Showcase: Shoehorn + DBA
Friday 26 September 2025
September?s event features Ramsbottom?s Shoehorn, and Liverpool?s DBA!Ramsbottom?s Shoehorn play high energy indie rock, with interesting sets featuring their own original songs plus a few smash-hit covers. Winners of both the Manchester an...
A Foreigner's Journey - The Music of Foreigner and Journey
Saturday 27 September 2025
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 ...
Dave Arcari
Saturday 27 September 2025
Following a successful Kickstarter campaign Arcari?s eighth album Still Friends is set for release on 7 November 2025 pre-empted by a series of monthly single releases of track from the album. As well as his own records, Arcari has had his ...
Filkin's Drift
Saturday 27 September 2025
Their 870 mile foot-powered-tour, described as ?committed and fascinating? by BBC 6 Music?s Cerys Matthews, has recently propelled them into the spotlight. This radical approach to sustainable touring has earned the duo global attention fro...
The Springsteen Sessions
Friday 3 October 2025
Glasgow-based Dougie Robertson's Springsteen Sessions are without doubt the most authentic, honest, hard hitting, hard working and accurate sound of the Boss in the UK. From the time The Springsteen Sessions hit the stage, they take you ...
Ferocious Dog
Saturday 4 October 2025
 Worksop's Ferocious Dog has emerged as a prominent figure in the music world, renowned for their dynamic and authentic folk-punk sound that echoes the essence of Nottinghamshire. Celebrated for their narrative-driven lyrics addressing so...
Emmanuel Sonubi
Wednesday 8 October 2025
Edinburgh Comedy Award Best Newcomer nominee and Best Show nominee, Emmanuel Sonubi is back on tour with his new show Life After Near Death, following sold-out performances at the Edinburgh Fringe, his Curriculum Vitae European Tour, and hi...
Mama Afrika
Thursday 9 October 2025
Zimbabwean born singer, musician and storyteller Anna Mudeka tells the remarkable life story of an iconic South African singer, songwriter and civil rights activist, Miriam Makeba, charting her rise from the townships of Johannesburg to glo...
Ruth Lyon
Thursday 9 October 2025
Her offbeat anti-folk sound ? featuring soulful vocals and witty, raw lyrics ? is inspired by artists like Fiona Apple, Aldous Harding, and Regina Spektor. Lyon?s 2022 EP, Direct Debit To Vogue, produced by the legendary John Parish (PJ Har...
Luke Concannon
Friday 10 October 2025
Luke Concannon has early memories of falling asleep at Irish family parties to the sound of guitars, singing, and dancing. He?s been playing music in community ever since. Lead singer and co-writer with number one chart act Nizlopi (best kn...
Miss Jackson Pulled at Parklife
Friday 10 October 2025
Miss Jackson teaches dance at a dead rough school and is putting on a production of Bugsy Malone with her dead rough kids. To reward them with their efforts and to show them how cool she is, she joins them at Parklife in Heaton Park to part...
Tom Robinson: Then and Now
Saturday 11 October 2025
Tom Robinson presents an evening of songs and stories from fifty years wandering the wilder shores of the record industry. Classic hits such as 'War Baby', 'Up Against The Wall', and '2-4-6-8 Motorway' rub shoulders with a Radio 1 ban for b...
The Fargo Railroad Company
Thursday 16 October 2025
Harking back to the roots of country rock and blues, with touches of Lynryd Skynrd, Allman Brothers, Little Feat and the ?70s sound of Cash, Young and Dylan, they appeal to the contemporary Blackberry Smoke and Jason Isbell fan bases. They ...
Tommy Holland & The Rising Sun Band - Elvis: As it Was
Friday 17 October 2025
Tommy Holland and The Rising Sun band recreate some of Elvis' most dynamic performances in a two-part show. With his impeccable attention to detail Tommy faithfully recreates the sound, the look, and the feel of Elvis. The Movie years: Fe...
Fairport Convention
Saturday 18 October 2025
Fairport Convention have been entertaining music lovers for over half a century, havingformed in 1967 and goiing on to win a BBC Lifetime Achievement Award, with Radio 2 listeners voting their ground-breaking album Liege & Lief "The Most...
Steve 'n' Seagulls
Sunday 19 October 2025
It could've been a cold winter day or warm summer night in Finland - but it was around the year 2010. Someone came up with an idea to combine bluegrass, Finnish folk and rock/metal music. The outcome was and has since been Steve'n'Seagulls....
Heidi Talbot
Sunday 19 October 2025
Born in a small village in Co. Kildare, Ireland, Heidi Talbot became a folk star in the USA as a member of the Irish American band Cherish the Ladies, and now lives in Edinburgh, Scotland teaching yoga in her spare time. With a background l...
Steve ‘n' Seagulls
Sunday 19 October 2025
Suddenly this unordinary group found themselves touring around the world, recording an album after another and combining musical styles like never before. So far, all four previous Steve ?n? Seagulls albums have hit the album charts in Finl...
Toby Lee
Thursday 23 October 2025
Toby?s journey started at just four-years-old when his grandma bought him a yellow and green ukulele. This little instrument went everywhere with him, and he played it constantly ? mainly tunes by Elvis and Buddy Holly. When he was eight, h...
The Bohemians - A Night of Queen
Saturday 25 October 2025
The Show Must Go On' - and there's certainly no stopping this comprehensive re-enactment of Queens greatest hits! Internationally renowned Queen tribute band The Bohemians take you on a high energy roller coaster ride of a concert, featurin...
Sorrel Nation
Saturday 25 October 2025
Sorrel engages audiences with emotive lyrics, ?70s inspired style and is known for impressive covers of Gillian Welch, Fleetwood Mac and Portishead. She has performed at well-known music venues across London and the South East, supporting f...
Sorrel Nation with her band
Saturday 25 October 2025
2024 saw multiple new releases from Sorrel including a single featuring Steve Balsamo in May, the delicate and beautiful live EP Thirty Summers in July and the critically acclaimed debut studio album Lost En Route in October. Sorrel perform...
Mark Chadwick (Levellers)
Sunday 26 October 2025
 One of the UK's most successful songwriters, Mark Chadwick has scored fourteen Top 40 chart singles and twelve Top 40 albums (including a Number 1) as part of The Levellers, the band he has fronted for over 25 years. Still going strong,...
The Magpie Arc
Saturday 1 November 2025
The Magpie Arc is a cross-border band out of Sheffield, Arran and Edinburgh and features award winning artists Nancy Kerr, Findlay Napier, Tom Wright, Alex Hunter and tour guitarist, the BBC Folk Award-winning Sam Carter. Formed from the id...
The ABBA Reunion Tribute Show
Saturday 22 November 2025
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...
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