TRADITIONAL FOLK & ACOUSTIC CONCERTS IN MANCHESTER
TRADITIONAL FOLK & ACOUSTIC CONCERTS IN MANCHESTER
Most Popular Traditional Folk & Acoustic Concerts in Manchester
Tue 30 Jun - Sun 5 Jul 2026
Fri 19 Jun - Fri 23 Oct 2026
Sat 27 Jun - Thu 2 Jul 2026
Hejira - A Celebration of Joni Mitchell
Friday 3 April 2026
Hejira is a seven-piece band set up to celebrate and honour the masterpiece works of Joni Mitchell, mostly from the late 70s. Comprising highly experienced world-class musicians, this band is fronted by the brilliant Hattie Whitehead who no...
Harp & a Monkey
Saturday 4 April 2026
Award-winning modern folk song and storytelling trio Harp & a Monkey perform traditional and original songs and stories with a heavy bias towards content from their native Greater Manchester. Critically acclaimed, but often criminally u...
Badly Drawn Boy - Live & In Conversation
Saturday 4 April 2026
Experience an extraordinary and intimate evening with the iconic Manchester musician, Damon Gough, aka Badly Drawn Boy. Renowned for his soulful and introspective songwriting, Badly Drawn Boy has captured the hearts of music lovers around t...
Mikey Kenney
Saturday 4 April 2026
Mikey Kenney is an original. A passionate and well-respected advocate for traditional music - a brilliant Liverpool-style fiddler drawing primarily on his native North West English and Irish heritage - but grounded in a present-day, urban...
Joshua Radin
Tuesday 7 April 2026
Joshua Radin emerged in 2004 as an empathetic, engaging, and often enthralling troubadour. Over the years, he's tallied north of 1 billion streams, moved 1 million-plus albums worldwide, and scored a gold certification for the single "I'd R...
The Illegal Eagles - Eagles Tribute Band
Wednesday 8 April 2026
In 2026, the Illegal Eagles celebrate an incredible 30 years on the road with their brand-new Hotel California Tour. Renowned for their flawless vocals, stunning guitars, and an uncanny ability to recreate the legendary sound of the Eagle...
Searows
Wednesday 8 April 2026
Kentucky-born, Oregon-raised indie folk singer-songwriter Alec Duckart, aka Searows, was the first signing to Matt Maltese's brand-new record label 'Last Recordings on Earth'. Duckart's intimate, hushed and compelling music soon found an a...
Frank Turner & The Sleeping Souls
Thursday 9 April 2026
The Hampshire punk and folk artist was initially a vocalist in the punk rock band Million Dead, before turning his focus towards a folkier, acoustic-based solo career. Since that time, he has reached international acclaim as a chart-topping...
Ben de la Cour
Friday 10 April 2026
BEN DE LA COUR (plus support)live in concert THE YARD - 11 BENT STREET MANCHESTER M8 8NF ?A friend took me to see Ben de la Cour at a little hole-in-the-wall in Nashville. It didn?t take long to realize I was in the presence of greatness. H...
Belle & Sebastian
Saturday 11 - Sunday 12 April 2026
What began as a government-funded recording project by a group of Glasgow shut-ins with no aspirations beyond getting a few songs recorded grew into one of the world's most lasting and beloved indie pop bands. Initially inspired by the inst...
Kris Drever
Saturday 11 April 2026
Kris Drever is a Scottish folk singer songwriter, who has won multiple awards including an incredible 7 BBC Radio 2 Folk Awards, two shortlist nominations for Scottish Album of The Year (with his trio Lau) and much acclaim for his solo reco...
The Lower Angel Band
Saturday 11 April 2026
Join The Lower Angel Band at The Peer Hat on the first stop of their North West tour....
Fisherman's Friends
Sunday 12 April 2026
Britain's oldest boy band have nine albums to their name, two feature films, a stage musical, a book, a TV documentary, they've played for royalty and to tens of thousands of fans in sell-out tours year in year out... No, it's not The B...
Marlon Williams
Tuesday 14 April 2026
Now Wave presents Marlon Williams at YES Pink Room on 14th April 2026...
The High Kings
Wednesday 15 April 2026
The High Kings, the true heirs of Ireland's Folk Heritage, have spent 15 years at the top of their game, selling out venues around the world to an ever-growing army of loyal fans. Widely regarded as the standard-bearer for their genre, they...
The Dr Hook Experience - A Tribute to Dr Hook
Thursday 16 April 2026
The songs of American country rock band, Dr. Hook, are timeless classics. Who can forget 'Sylvia's Mother', 'When You're in Love With A Beautiful Woman', 'Sharing the Night Together', 'Only Sixteen', 'Sexy Eyes' and 'Cover of the "Rolling S...
Asgeir
Thursday 16 April 2026
At only 20 years of age, Asgeir released the fastest selling debut album in Icelandic history -Dyro i dauoabogn / In The Silence. The album was made up of 10 tracks of soul-searching folk featuring lyrics penned by his father, Einar Georg ...
Kathryn Roberts & Sean Lakeman
Thursday 16 April 2026
Duos come and duos go, and some nurture and fine tune their art and watch it grow into something totally original and captivating. Described as "folk music for the modern age" by The Telegraph, and "rightly regarded as one of the most engag...
Nick Harper
Thursday 16 April 2026
Phantastes inhabits an ethereal realm and explores the parallels of the seminal C19th fantasy novel of the same name by George MacDonald and the beginnings of Nick's own love story from 1982. The album was recorded, and is performed live o...
Todd Day Wait
Thursday 16 April 2026
From busking the streets of New Orleans, to playing in the shadow of European castles, to lighting up the honky-tonk dance floors in Nashville, Missouri country blues singer songwrtier Todd Day Wait's easy-going, good humored nature will ha...
Jane Weaver
Friday 17 April 2026
Abusing, evading, and obliterating 20 years of whimsical pop trends, Jane Weaver's experience as a truly independent and resilient songwriter and sound-carrier commands respect and inspiration in equal measures. Complete with unpretentious ...
The Bros. Landreth
Friday 17 April 2026
Four bandmates. Two brothers. Canadian roots-rockers the Bros. Landreth serve up the bluesy wail of electric guitars, the swell of B3 organ, and the harmonized swoon of two voices that were born to mesh. At first listen, you might call it A...
Todd Day Wait
Friday 17 April 2026
From busking the streets of New Orleans, to playing in the shadow of European castles, to lighting up the honky-tonk dance floors in Nashville, Missouri country blues singer songwrtier Todd Day Wait's easy-going, good humored nature will ha...
James
Saturday 18 April 2026
One of Britain's most enduring success stories, Manchester indie folk rock legends James have sold over 25 million records with their recent run of Top 5 albums proving to be a golden era for the band, only narrowly missing out on the top s...
Down in Laurel Canyon
Saturday 18 April 2026
Down In Laurel Canyon is a re-imagining the timeless catalogue of songs produced throughout the 70s in California. This 7-piece band of Liverpool-based musicians and friends will take you through a nostalgic journey back in time. Througho...
Robert Vincent
Saturday 18 April 2026
A distinctive voice within the British Americana and folk-rock scene, blending elements of country, blues, and rock to create a sound that is both timeless and deeply evocative, award-winning Crosby artist Robert Vincent has been described ...
Granny's Attic
Saturday 18 April 2026
With exceptional musicianship and boundless energy, Granny's Attic are Cohen Braithwaite-Kilcoyne (melodeon, anglo concertina, vocals), George Sansome (guitar, vocals) and Lewis Wood (violin, vocals). The trio are much loved by audiences up...
Imelda May
Sunday 19 April 2026
Exploring blues, soul, gospel, folk, rock, acoustic, cinematic drama and explosive balladry, globally revered Irish superstar singer and songwriter Imelda May brims with sensuality, emotional intelligence, spirituality and intuition. Del...
One Night In Dublin
Wednesday 22 April 2026
The Wild Murphys invite you to Murphy's Pub for one glorious night of high-energy Irish music and more than a little bit of Irish craic. The multi-award-winning Irish band The Wild Murphys features the very best Irish musicians playing a th...
LOVE With Johnny Echols
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...
Cold Beer and Tennessee Whiskey
Friday 24 April 2026
The ultimate Luke Combs and Chris Stapleton tribute show. With leading UK tributes to two moderns country legends...
Jethro Tull
Saturday 25 April 2026
With Ian Anderson as ever central to the performance, this tour will encapsulate the seven decades in which Jethro Tull have written and performed music. Through their 23 studio albums, they have continued to push the boundaries of their mu...
Nadia Reid
Saturday 25 April 2026
New Zealand folk artist Nadia Reid has praised the world over for her intimate, complex songwriting. She is described by The Guardian as "an understated, wise guide through uncertain territory", while her lyrics are called "allegorical... b...
Nadia Reid
Saturday 25 April 2026
New Zealand folk artist Nadia Reid has praised the world over for her intimate, complex songwriting. She is described by The Guardian as "an understated, wise guide through uncertain territory", while her lyrics are called "allegorical... b...
Guy Davis
Saturday 25 April 2026
New York multi-instrumentalist Guy Davis is a two-time, back-to-back Grammy nominee for Best Traditional Blues, musician, actor, author, songwriter, so much more than 'just a bluesman', a troubadour of the folk tradition, and a master of...
Josienne Clarke sings Sandy Denny
Saturday 25 April 2026
Indie-folk singer, songwriter, guitarist and producer Josienne Clarke is often said to draw on traditional British folk inspirations, but is a thoroughly modern, multifaceted artist who follows her own compass. Blessed with a voice of cryst...
The Scratch
Saturday 25 April 2026
Dublin's The Scratch were born from a shared love of metal and traditional Irish music and have moulded triumphant melodies with the groove and intensity of metal. Their debut album released in 2020 reached #9 in the Irish Album Charts, #2 ...
