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The Choir With no Name Big Gig returns to the Liverpool Everyman
The Choir With no Name returns to the Liverpool Everyman this July for its joyous annual ‘Big Gig’. Poet Joseph Roberts will be special guest at the event on Saturday, July 18 which promises to be an uplifting and unforgettable night of music, verse and community. Fellow local choir Indigo Vibe will also take part. The Choir With no Name (CWNN) involves people who are impacted by homelessness or marginalisation, and it meets weekly in the city centre to sing, build confidence
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Lennon and Epstein relationship explored in new play
The relationship between John Lennon and Beatles manager Brian Epstein is explored in a new play being staged in Liverpool to coincide with International Beatle Week next month. Of All These Friends and Lovers is at the Hope Street Theatre between August 25-29. The show comes from the city’s Old Fruit Jar Productions whose previous acclaimed productions include The Incident Room and It’s a Wonderful Life and is presented in association with the Hope Street Theatre. It is writ
Threshold Festival reveals line-up for 15th anniversary event
Liverpool’s popular former Threshold Festival is set to hold a special one-off 15th anniversary reunion in the Baltic Triangle next month. Threshold Was Here, taking place on August 1, will bring together more than 30 acts in one packed programme. The line-up over three stages and some pop-up sites includes Natalie McCool, Mersey Wylie, Tosin Trio, Helen Maw, Karl McCann, Goeghegan Jackson, The Good Host, Hollows, Def Neon, DJ Rasp, Science of the Lamps and Mixnots among othe
The Choir With no Name Big Gig returns to the Liverpool Everyman
The Choir With no Name returns to the Liverpool Everyman this July for its joyous annual ‘Big Gig’. Poet Joseph Roberts will be special guest at the event on Saturday, July 18 which promises to be an uplifting and unforgettable night of music, verse and community. Fellow local choir Indigo Vibe will also take part. The Choir With no Name (CWNN) involves people who are impacted by homelessness or marginalisation, and it meets weekly in the city centre to sing, build confidence
Africa Oyé 2026 full programme at Sefton Park
The 2026 Africa Oyé comes to Sefton Park this weekend with two full days of music from some of the most exciting figures on the international stage. The annual festival - the UK's largest celebration of African music and culture - takes place on Saturday and Sunday, June 20-21. This year’s event is ticket only, with organisers say rising costs mean it has been increasingly difficult to keep running the annual event for free. Headlining the 2026 festival are Grammy-nominated M
Review: Haydn's Creation at the Tung Auditorium ****1/2
The Liverpool Mozart Orchestra set the bar high when it launched its 75th anniversary year last November with its president Sir Simon Rattle on the podium. Happily, it had another ace up its sleeve with which to bring the special season to a fitting close, and in jubilant fashion. The orchestra has performed Haydn throughout its three-quarters-of-a-century of music making, principally the prolific Austrian’s symphonies, but also occasionally other pieces, like his oboe concer
Review: Music of the Americas at Philharmonic Hall ****1/2
America celebrates a big birthday this July 4th. And just to show we here in the ‘old country’ don’t bear a grudge at being shown the door 250 years ago, the Phil went all-American in this exuberant Thursday night concert. Lest we forget, for many of those years Liverpool was the gateway to the ‘new world’, and those transatlantic links remain strong. But this was also a wider international affair, with the equally exuberant German pianist Frank Dupree making his first (but h
Liverpool European Festival 2026 most ambitious yet
Liverpool European Festival returns this weekend with a wide-ranging programme of community-led events and activities. The festival, a legacy of Liverpool’s hosting of the 2023 Eurovision on behalf of Ukraine, is now in its fourth year and organisers are promising the 2026 event is the most ambitious to date. It runs from May 9 to July 5. The festival is set to officially open on Europe Day this Saturday (May 9) with a large-scale public event at St Luke’s Bombed Out Church f
Mendelssohn's Elijah to fill Liverpool Cathedral with divine sound
The massed ranks of 350 singers will perform Felix Mendelssohn’s mighty oratorio Elijah in Liverpool Cathedral next weekend. The concert, on Saturday, May 16, will feature bass Andrew Greenan – who previously sang the title role in the cathedral 40 years ago – and will also be one of the last performances by cathedral organist Ian Tracey before his retirement. The other soloists are Kelsey Thomas, Joyce Tindsley and Stefan Kennedy. Mendelssohn composed his magnificent work fo
Review: Liverpool String Academy at the Tung Auditorium ****
It was the Liverpool String Academy’s inaugural concert at the city’s Tung Auditorium – but if there were any nerves among its youthful members, they certainly weren’t visible in what proved to be an accomplished and hugely impressive performance. Run by Early Music as Education (EMAE), a charity which basically does what it says on the tin by providing specialist music education for young people – irrespective of background or training – across Merseyside, Liverpool String A
Review: Mark Simpson's The Immortal at Liverpool Philharmonic Hall ****
Mark Simpson has revealed what he calls his ‘big and wild’ ambitions were ignited by the performances he watched and music he experienced as a youngster listening to concerts at the Philharmonic Hall. But while he may have dreamed a dream, one wonders if the Liverpool schoolboy really imagined he’d one day be feted as the orchestra that so influenced his youth premiered his own compositions in the same concert hall. Over the two decades and counting of his professional career
Liverpool Music Heritage Trail celebrates 60 years of key musical moments in the city
A new music heritage trail linking 12 key Liverpool locations has been launched in the city. The free, self-guided trail is marked by plaques designed to look like vinyl records and the Beatles Legacy Group, which is behind the new attraction, says it hopes it will inspire a new generation of Liverpool artists as well as music fans and visitors. Billed ‘a whistlestop tour through 60 years of Liverpool music from 1957 to 2016', the tour aims to explore some of the places, peop
Review: From Classical to Romantic at the Tung Auditorium ****
There’s a scene in Amadeus where the impish composer and musician is welcomed by Emperor Joseph II who plays a somewhat ponderous little piece composed specially by Salieri. A giggling Mozart (Tom Hulce) proceeds to take the melody and improvise wildly and gleefully, showcasing his genius but guilelessly ridiculing the furious court composer’s effort at the same time. It was an era when soloists were expected to extemporise and ornament their performances. Mozart is said to h
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