Chris Horkan

After the success of our first ever two floor live band party at Deaf Institute back in September we couldn’t wait to throw another one at the end of Jan to kick off the new year in style!

The Unthanks return to the live arena with How Wild The Wind Blows, a show that sees them perform the songs and poems of Molly Drake.

As a starting point for this project, we invited our students to choose a piece of music that inspired them and that they were really keen to perform. The ensemble Cosmo Strings came back with Max Richter’s re-imagining of Vivaldi’s The Four Seasons.

The culminating performance of the Samarbeta residency, undertaken by musician David McLean and film noir writer Phil Carney.

Manchester’s own prog-pop group Dutch Uncles return in 2017 with a new album, and this hometown launch show at the Dancehouse.

Kick off the festive season in style with our annual Baked A La Ska Christmas special.

Cameroonian singer Coco Mbassi describes her music as ‘a tree with deep African roots and branches that extend some towards classical music, some towards soul, gospel and jazz, and others towards Latin music and even pop music.’

Forget what you thought you knew about orchestral concerts; this new and innovative series requests that you DO turn on your mobile phones and tablets.

Formed in Duluth, Minnesota, in 1993, Low were perhaps the slowest of the so-called ‘slowcore’ bands – delicate, austere, and hypnotic, the trio’s music rarely rose above a whisper.

Manchester’s Whyte Horses will play a very special hometown show at The Dancehouse on 26 November. The show will be the first time Whyte Horses perform their debut album Pop or Not, which was released earlier this year via CRC Music.

DJ Shadow has long held legendary status. Widely regarded as one of the deepest crate diggers in hip hop, Shadow’s career has taken in numerous milestones.

Commontime is the new album from Field Music, the first record from the Sunderland siblings since 2012’s Plumb.