Most Popular R&B & Soul in Manchester
Fri 9 Aug 2024 - Thu 5 Jun 2025
Fri 6 Sep - Sat 12 Oct 2024
Boogietown North
Saturday 27 July 2024
Boogietown heads to Manchester Barton Aerodrome on 27th July for a massive day of soul, funk & disco...
Hallé - Disco Dynamite
Saturday 27 July 2024
Follow the call of the disco ball and join Stephen Bell, the Halle and four sensational singers for this dazzling devotion to disco. It's time to put on your dancing shoes, step out onto the illuminated dance floor and boogie under the mirr...
Club Hive - All Beyonce, All Night
Saturday 27 July 2024
A brand new clubbing experience from XS Pop dedicated to the Queen B, Beyonce. You will hear non-stop Beyonce from start to finish, including all the hits, fan favourites and tracks from ALL seven of her albums. Following a sold out Renaiss...
Green Island Festival
Saturday 27 July - Saturday 7 September 2024
Grassroots festival Green Island returns to Manchester, presenting a three-part series of day festivals, with line-ups that place underground, underrepresented, emerging artists from across the UK and global sounds at the forefront. Green I...
Manchester Got Soul
Saturday 27 July - Saturday 28 December 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. ...
Tank and The Bangas
Sunday 28 July 2024
New Orleans funk and soul band Tank and the Bangas, led by frontwoman and poet Tarriona "Tank" Ball, have become widely beloved for their lauded live shows and kitchen-sink approach to making music. After beating 6,000 other bands to win th...
Lost In Music
Friday 2 August 2024
Get ready to recreate the Magical 70's and let us take you on a musical journey straight to the heart of Disco!Relive some of the greatest songs of all time from artists such as Donna Summer, Gloria Gaynor, Earth, Wind & Fire, Sister Sledge...
Discos for Grown Ups - 70s Disco, 80s Pop & 90s Dance Anthems
Friday 2 August 2024
An incredible night of disco, the legendary pop-up 70s, 80s and 90s disco party is bringing the boogie to town. Get glittered up for a fun, fab and feel-good night of dancing with people your own age to all your favourite 70s disco, 80s po...
Elephunk in the Room
Friday 2 August - Wednesday 11 September 2024
Come dance with the Elephunk in the Room...
Justin Timberlake
Thursday 8 August 2024
The Memphis "Prince of Pop" is back. From Disney's Mickey Mouse Club in the 1990s, and vocalist with *NSYNC, to becoming a Hollywood film star and one of the best-selling solo artists of all time, shifting 88 million records worldwide inc...
Racing + Earth Wind & Fire Experience By Al McKay
Friday 9 August 2024
Built around legendary Earth Wind & Fire guitarist, Al McKay, and a group of top Los Angeles studio and road musicians is the aptly named "Al McKay Allstars." They are all about the music. Performing hit after hit of the super group's mater...
The Magic of Motown
Friday 9 August 2024
Get ready for all the hits, glittering costumes, dazzling dance routines and outstanding musicianship in this breath-taking live concert spectacular. You will be going Loco down in Acapulco as we take you back down memory lane with all the ...
Celebrating Burna Boy
Friday 9 August 2024
Manchester's creme de la creme of musicians perform some of Burna Boy's biggest hits, followed by a live set of hip hop, afrobeats and RnB. Expect old and new school goodness from Kendrick Lamar and J Hus to Wizkid and Lauryn Hill....
Backyard Cinema - Romeo + Juliet
Sunday 11 - Saturday 17 August 2024
With over a decade of sold out shows, Backyard Cinema's critically acclaimed Romeo+Juliet continues to push the boundaries of what it means to watch a movie. A celebration of Baz Luhrmann's acclaimed 1996 cult classic, screened under the ...
Marc Rebillet
Thursday 15 August 2024
One-man improv master with an impressive vocal range and near-perfect pitch Musical comedy improviser Marc Rebillet began his career in 2016 by live-streaming to YouTube, Facebook, Twitter and Twitch while performing songs in his bedroom - ...
Celebrating Beyoncé
Friday 16 August 2024
Delving deep into the world of Queen B, Manchester's creme de la creme of musicians will be performing some of Beyonce's biggest hits, followed by a live set of hip hop, afrobeats and RnB. Expect old and new school goodness from Kendrick L...
Molly Parden
Friday 16 August 2024
Jonesboro born Molly Parden serves up an amalgamation of soul, folk, and pop conjured up by a group of instruments and a sweet voice. ...
Molly Parden
Friday 16 August 2024
Jonesboro born Molly Parden serves up an amalgamation of soul, folk, and pop conjured up by a group of instruments and a sweet voice. ...
Some Guys Have All the Luck - The Rod Stewart Story
Wednesday 21 August 2024
Endorsed by Rod's own family, Some Guys Have All The Luck - The Rod Stewart Story is back in theatres in 2023 with its hotly anticipated new production. Direct from the West End, the show brings to the stage an incredible live concert celeb...
The Red Clay Strays
Wednesday 21 August 2024
With a sound as classic as the crackling of a Sun Records vinyl still spinning somewhere in Memphis, yet as fresh as the musical stylings of the 21st Century, the Red Clay Strays, hailing from the red dirt clay of Mobile, Alabama, have bee...
Songs of Resistance
Wednesday 21 August 2024
A not-for-profit concert raising money for international human rights organisation Restless Beings, starring Cookie Love - J. Chambers - Mali Hayes - Renee Stormz - Saf S2E - Third Kulture - Twisted Tubes - Yemi Bolatiwa. Hosted by Jenn...
Celebrating Lauryn Hill
Friday 23 - Saturday 24 August 2024
Manchester's creme de la creme of musicians celebrate Lauryn Hill's "The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill" by performing some of The Fugees star's biggest hits, followed by a live set of hip hop, afrobeats and RnB. Expect old and new school good...
Maverick City Music + Kirk Franklin
Sunday 25 August 2024
Maverick City and Kirk Franklin are among the very best in the Christian Music world. They have each broken through all the old boundaries between the gospel and worship genres in a short time. They won GRAMMY awards, had hit songs that wil...
Trybefest with Rudeboy
Sunday 25 August 2024
Paul Okoye, better known as Rudeboy, is a Nigerian R&B, hip hop and Afrobeats singer who rose to fame in the 2000s as a member of the P-Square duo with his identical twin brother Peter Okoye. ...
Stax of Soul & The Soul Review
Friday 30 August 2024
The original. A reputation that needs no introduction. Born in Manchester in 1983, 9-piece 100% live band STAX of SOUL celebrate their 40th Anniversary. Featuring incredible musicians (including a powerful brass section) meticulously & ene...
Rickie Lee Jones
Friday 30 August 2024
Iconic American musician, storyteller, and two-time Grammy winner, Rickie Lee Jones is best known for her groundbreaking self-titled debut in 1979 - which spawned the UK Top 20 hit "Chuck E.'s in Love" - and the seminal "Pirates" in 1981, h...
Celebrating Drake
Friday 30 August 2024
Manchester's creme de la creme of musicians will be performing some of Drake's biggest hits, followed by a live set of hip hop, afrobeats and RnB. Expect old and new school goodness from Kendrick Lamar and J Hus to Wizkid and Lauryn Hill....
Curtis Harding
Monday 2 September 2024
Simply calling Curtis Harding a soul man feels reductive. Harding's voice conveys pain, pleasure, longing, tenderness, sadness and strength - a full gamut of emotions. He croons with devotion over classic soul grooves, textured with infecti...
The Four Tops + The Temptations Revue + Tavares
Wednesday 4 September 2024
Ever since the mid-60's soul legends The Four Tops have been winning audiences with their energising vocal powers and melodic harmonies. Featuring original member Abdul "Duke" Fakir, and former musical director Ronnie McNeir, their first hi...
Knower
Wednesday 4 September 2024
KNOWER are a searing hot music group from Los Angeles spearheading a new musical movement or as they call it CONSCIOUS RACK-ROP. The LA duo are drummer-producer Louis Cole and singer Genevieve Artadi, known for their hard-hitting funk, cool...
The Teskey Brothers
Thursday 5 - Friday 6 September 2024
The Teskey Brothers are an Australian blues rock band from Melbourne, named after the two brothers who formed the group in 2008: Josh Teskey and Sam Teskey. Their music is in the style of Wilson Pickett, and Otis Redding, playing soul mu...
A Midsummer Night's Dream
Friday 6 September - Saturday 12 October 2024
This electrifying adaptation of A Midsummer Night's Dream directed by Stef O'Driscoll is a whirlwind of sweaty dance-offs and drum and bass love anthems, celebrating the vibrant tapestry of Manchester's contemporary rave scene. The Palace n...
Lost In Music
Friday 6 September 2024
Get ready to recreate the Magical 70's and let us take you on a musical journey straight to the heart of Disco!Relive some of the greatest songs of all time from artists such as Donna Summer, Gloria Gaynor, Earth, Wind & Fire, Sister Sledge...
Bob Marley Tribute Night - Manchester
Friday 6 September 2024
Join us for an unforgettable night of reggae music as we pay tribute to the legendary Bob Marley, featuring the incredible Tanni Brown....
Give Me The Night - A Tribute to George Benson
Saturday 7 September 2024
It's time to throw out all your blues and hit the city lights for a night of George Benson classics, as world-renowned leading man Nat Augustin pays tribute to the American soul superstar who helped make r'n'b soul what it is today. Brand n...
The American Four Tops
Friday 13 September 2024
It's the tribute show jam packed with sweet soul music and Motown magic that continues to leave audiences dancing and chanting for more following each outstanding performance. Featuring the voice of Mr William Hicks, high-stepping choreogra...
The Three Degrees
Friday 13 September 2024
When you hear the name, The Three Degrees, you immediately think of their most famous song, "When Will I See You Again." True, "When Will I See You Again" was a major hit record throughout the world, topping the chart in the U.S.A., the U.K...
Repercussion
Saturday 14 September 2024
Jungle (Live) | Bonobo (DJ)Honey Dijon | Major League Djzsalute | berlioz (DJ) | DJ Seinfeld | Sofia Kourtesis (DJ)Chez Damier | Chloe Caillet | Hamdi | Bradley ZeroLuke Una presents E Soul Cultura | DESIREE | Bakey | AnzJarreau Vandal |...
Totally Tina - Tina Turner Spectacular
Friday 20 September 2024
Shake a tail feather with the UK's favourite Tina Turner spectacular.... aka Justine Riddoch and her talented cast. Supported by her super-talented band and dazzling dancing girls in sequins, feathers and diamonds, Justine is the supreme Ti...
Six60
Friday 20 September 2024
SIX60 got their start in Dunedin, New Zealand in 2008. The quintet - made up of lead singer Matiu Walters, guitarists Ji Fraser and Chris Mac, drummer Eli Paewai and sampler Marlon Gerbes - met as students at the University of Otago and had...
The Magic of Motown
Saturday 21 September 2024
Get ready for all the hits, glittering costumes, dazzling dance routines and outstanding musicianship in this breath-taking live concert spectacular. You will be going Loco down in Acapulco as we take you back down memory lane with all the ...
Jordan Rakei
Thursday 26 September 2024
The New Zealand-born, Australia-raised, and London-based artist dives deep into his sound world, merging electronic with acoustic, and rugged grooves with ambient atmospheres, drawing influence and inspiration from the discovery of meditat...
The Amy Winehouse Experience
Thursday 26 September 2024
Fronted by the enigmatic Caroline Lowe with a group of backing musicians, this is the UK's premier tribute to the often misunderstood and sadly missed talent of the late Amy Winehouse. From the creators of Lioness, The Amy Winehouse Experi...
