“This festival is about celebrating the range of great music described as folk.” David Agnew, director of Manchester Folk Festival
For several years, the Homegrown festival at Bury Met, with its associated Folk Expo industry...
Read MorePosted by Kevin Bourke | Oct 17, 2017 | Music
For several years, the Homegrown festival at Bury Met, with its associated Folk Expo industry...
Read MorePosted by Chris Payne | Sep 28, 2015 | Bands & Gigs, Music
The band walks onto the stage accompanied by the mighty Rainbow’s Since You’ve Been Gone. Since...
Read MorePosted by Chris Payne | Oct 1, 2014 | Bands & Gigs, Music
Peter Hook and The Light treated a packed Manchester Ritz to some seldom-heard pleasures last...
Read MorePosted by Chris Payne | Feb 26, 2014 | Bands & Gigs, Music
The crowd here at Manchester’s Ritz is a right old mix – there are your 17-year-old...
Read MorePosted by Chris Payne | Nov 21, 2013 | Bands & Gigs, Music
From the darkness appears a shaman anointing the air with his beaded rattle, his trancelike state...
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