BBC Radio 3’s Manchester Week features 10 concerts by Manchester’s leading ensembles and soloists, performing at some of the city’s most prestigious music venues.
Free entry
Following their signing to Fire Talk Records, Manchester’s newly-formed Gary, Indiana are performing a socially-distanced gig at YES.
From £6
Equal parts taut post-punk and off-beat new wave, Nottingham’s Do Nothing are finally getting to take their excellent EP ‘Glueland’ on the road.
From £10
This May, The University of Sheffield is playing host to a cracking all-dayer featuring Squid, Confidence Man and The Murder Capital.
From £25
The University of Sheffield Students’ Union houses gig venues, bars and various other facilities for students, staff and the general public.
On New Year’s Eve, tune into United We Steam for a 24 hour Haçienda House Party, featuring live sets from a plethora of world-renowned artists.
Free entry
Manchester and Liverpool unite to host The North Will Rise Again, a live-streamed micro-festival headlined by The Charlatans and The Lightning Seeds.
From £7.50
Yorkshire Fisheries is a multiple award-winning fish and chip shop that dates back to 1907, making it the oldest in Blackpool.
NQ Jazz have teamed up with The Stoller Hall and The Yard to bring us dozens of COVID-safe jazz events featuring established and emerging artists.
This festive season, the Untold Orchestra are packing three of their renowned ‘icon’ shows into four dates at Escape to Freight Island.
From £8
The Hallé is joined by Stephen Hough for Rachmaninov’s Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini, before the world premiere of Huw Watkins’ Second Symphony.
From £5
Sir Mark Elder conducts a staged performance of Stravinsky’s 1918 masterpiece The Soldier’s Tale, directed by Olivier Award winner Annabel Arden.
From £5
