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“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 event, has been one of the most significant dates on the international folk and roots music calendar.
Read the full story..Review and Photo Gallery: The Bluetones, The Ritz, Manchester
The band walks onto the stage accompanied by the mighty Rainbow’s Since You’ve Been Gone.
Read the full story..Peter Hook and The Light
Peter Hook and The Light treated a packed Manchester Ritz to some seldom-heard pleasures last week.
Read the full story..Jake Bugg wows Manchester
The crowd here at Manchester’s Ritz is a right old mix – there are your 17-year-old girls obviously (and no shortage of 17-year-old boys, I have to say) but also folk old enough to be Jake Bugg‘s grandparents.
Read the full story..Call the cops: Happy Mondays are back in town
From the darkness appears a shaman anointing the air with his beaded rattle, his trancelike state allowing him access to the spirit worlds where he channels the crowds’ energies into his own ritualistic ecstasy. He shakes his feathered staff.
Read the full story..Everything Everything
This was a homecoming gig (of sorts) for Manchester-based Everything Everything. They gave their all – and it showed.
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