Concert Celebrates Centuries Of Music

Eric Morecambe’s centenary will be celebrated by the only town’s only palm court orchestra this March. Bring Me Sunshine, Morecambe and Wise’s famous theme tune, will be performed by the award-winning Promenade Concert Orchestra as their tribute to Eric who was born in the town in May 1926.

Gig: The Cords - Support From Tulpa

There seems to be a bit of an 80s influence coming through in bands at the moment. This is something I’m happy to see, as this was the era when I began my love affair with music and going to see bands. I’m not sure whether the current sound I hear in many bands is simply due to their parents' record collections or a rediscovery of the brilliant bands from that time.

Northern Ballet's Gentleman Jack

Undoubtedly best know through the television drama series created by Sally Wainwright, Gentleman Jack is the story of a powerful Yorkshire businesswoman from the 1830s. The 19th century was not a time known for its liberal-minded, easy-going attitudes to women in general and certainly not women who preferred other women as their life partners.

Albums: Harry Styles Kiss All the Time. Disco, Occasionally

However, icon status is draining, and, unsurprisingly, after what was a truly epic tour in support of his third studio album, Harry's House, he needed to take some time to just live and breathe. Having refreshed his heart, soul and mind, he returned earlier this year with the strikingly different Aperture. After really enjoying exploring LCD Soundsystem in their live setting, he crafted a more minimalist disco-driven song for his big return

Classical Music Sonority Jan Liebermann — Organ

Jan Liebermann has generated that particular kind of anticipation through a social media following remarkable in its scale and enthusiasm, yet the 21-year-old German organist's appeal rests on something altogether more substantial than online celebrity. He bridges the gap between popularising the instrument and playing mainstream repertoire with total conviction; he does so without resorting to gimmicks or the confection of novelty programmes designed merely to lure the uninitiated. Finally, a CD has been released, allowing everyone to experience the excitement.

Classical Music: Hallé - Huw Watkins

Elder's direction throughout is meticulous without ever becoming mannered; the phrasing is alive, the dynamics precisely weighted, and the playing of the Hallé consistently luminous. If Huw Watkins remains less widely known than his gifts deserve, this disc is an authoritative and thoroughly persuasive introduction.

Classical Music: Mozart: Piano Concertos, Vol. 12

Mozart: Piano Concertos, Vol. 12 Overture to ‘Idomeneo, rè di Creta’, K. 366; Rondo in A major, K. 386 Concerto in F major (three pianos), K. 242 ‘Lodron’; Rondo in D major, K. 382; Overture to ‘La finta semplice’, K. 51; Concerto in E flat major (two pianos), K.

Bill Broady And The Fiction Of Labour’s Origins

One of the most memorable contributions to Bradford’s year as UK City of Culture actually came out in advance of 2025 and stimulated renewed appetite to look again at the stories of what the West Riding city has given Britain - not only in bricks and institutions, but in ideas.

More Acts Announced For Lytham Festival 2026

The North West’s biggest live music festival is about to get even bigger as multi-award winning pop stars and legendary DJ’s are added to the bill. Singer-songwriter Ronan Keating, iconic glam-pop band Scissor Sisters, pop duo Appleton, Dance Anthems DJ Dave Pearce and Lancashire’s very own superstar DJ Graham Liver will all join the line up for this summer’s TK Maxx presents Lytham Festival.

In Conversation Ásgeir

On his fifth studio album, Julia, Icelandic singer-songwriter Ásgeir enters intriguing and uncharted territory. After years of engaging translators such as John Grant and working with the poetry of his father, Einar Georg Einarsson, Ásgeir has penned his lyrics by himself for the first time in his long and celebrated career.

Look Mum No Computer Unveils Eurovision Entry — And The Sceptics May Have To Think Again

The Eurovision race is heating up. With over half of the entries now revealed, the bookies are favouring Finland's violin driven showstopper for the win, while the revelation that Delta Goodrem would be representing Australia sent them soaring up the odds.

Red Ladder Children’s Shows Bring Sunshine To Leeds This Spring

Red Ladder Theatre Company brings two entertaining and hugely popular children’s shows to alternative theatre venues in Leeds this spring, as part of its latest Red Ladder Local season. The ever-popular Rubbish Shakespeare Company and Silly History Boys bring The Story Forge to Belle Isle Tenant Management Organisation (BITMO) on April 16.

Women’s Prize For Fiction Reveals 2026 Longlist

The Women’s Prize Trust – the registered charity building a better future by championing women’s writing – has revealed the longlist for the 2026 Women’s Prize for Fiction. The Prize is the greatest celebration of female creativity in the world, and is sponsored by Audible and Baileys.

10cc - Running On All Cylinders In York

Whilst their contemporaries in the singles chart fifty years ago were singing about Tiger Feet and the Ballroom Blitz, 10cc were delivering a more sophisticated brand of pop that came with an inventive lyric wrapped around an addictive melody; often classed as art rock, the band also had a string of albums that defined the genre.

A Treasure Trove Of Classical Music Gems Set To Shine Bright At The 60th HACS Harrogate Music Festival

Harrogate International Festivals is celebrating its 60th anniversary in style by bringing some of the biggest names and brightest emerging stars in classical music to Harrogate this summer.

Classical Music: Nikolaus Harnoncourt --Mendelssohn, Wagner & Schumann

Today marks the tenth anniversary of the death of Nikolaus Harnoncourt, and Sony Classical has chosen to honour the occasion with a release of considerable significance: a live recording from the 1999 Styriarte festival in Graz, presenting works that had never previously featured in Harnoncourt's discography. For those who revere this most searching and singular of conductors, it is a gift.

Full Steam Ahead For Yorkshire Author's Book On The Birth Of The Railways

A Yorkshire author, who is passionate about railway history, has just published a book celebrating the ground-breaking launch of the Stockton and Darlington Railway in 1825. Mixing historical fact and fiction, Neil McGoohan's The Iron Horse is a riveting account of how the very first railway in the world was funded and built.

In Conversation With John Newman

Thirteen years ago an emerging artist from a North Yorkshire town ignited the pop charts around the world with his debut solo single, Love Me Again, which also rose to Number One on the singles chart in his home country. The singer was John Newman from Settle, who now has recorded a new version of the hit song titled Love Me Again (Again).

"We Turned Inward": The Grahams On Love, Music And Their Most Personal Album Yet

The Grahams’ story is that of two lives lived well together—a relationship that dates back to childhood that led them to start an accomplished musical project and found their multifaceted 3Sirens Music Group in Nashville.

Richard Hills To Play The Amazing Wurlitzer Theatre Pipe Organ In The Victoria Hall, Saltaire

Richard Hills is to play the amazing Wurlitzer theatre pipe organ in the Victoria Hall, Saltaire, on Sunday 8th March from 2.30pm for an afternoon's entertainment.

Harrogate Throws Its Hat Into The Ring To Be UK Town Of Culture

Harrogate is calling on local businesses, residents and community groups to help shape its bid to become the UK’s first Town of Culture in 2028. The North Yorkshire spa town has joined the growing list of places across the UK planning to compete for this inaugural title.

Mae Stephens

Mae Stephens’ rise has been led by larger-than-life, big-voiced pop anthems, including her big hit If We Ever Broke Up. She returns now with her new single, Blue, where she introduces a different side to herself, one that swaps the sass for the sultry.

Public Invited To Select Winner Of The Northumberland National Park Photography Award 2026

Northumberland National Park Authority is proud to announce the finalists for the Northumberland National Park Photography Award 2026 and is inviting the public to choose the overall winner, following the competition’s exciting launch in December.

An Interplay With Phoenix Dance

Phoenix Dance Theatre has embarked on an 18-date UK-wide tour with a brand-new mixed bill, Interplay, bringing together work by internationally acclaimed choreographers Travis Knight and James Pett, Ed Myhill, Yusha-Marie Sorzano, and Phoenix Dance Theatre’s Artistic Director, Marcus Jarrell Willis.

Albums: Gogol Bordello We Mean It, Man!

Now comes their ninth album, We Mean It, Man!, and if the title sounds blunt, that’s because it is. This is Gogol Bordello at their most focused and forceful—a band stripping away the last of their Raggle-Taggle romanticism and tightening their sound into something lean, muscular, and unambiguously defiant.

Albums: Geneviève Racette Golden (Deluxe)

Rather than simply revisiting a previous release, this expanded edition reshapes it. The additional recordings and pared-down arrangements illuminate corners of the songs that may have once lingered in shadow. There is a quiet confidence in these reinterpretations — a sense of an artist returning not to revise, but to rediscover.

Albums: Kadebostany The Outsider

Lead single, Elephant in the Room, perfectly captures this ethos. It’s a quiet rebellion wrapped in sound — understated yet powerful, blending pop immediacy with subtle folk undertones. The track simmers rather than explodes, proving that tension can be just as compelling as release. It’s emblematic of the album’s wider ambition: pop music that challenges without alienating.

World Book Day 2026: The Biggest Celebration Of Reading Yet

Thursday 5th March promises a day of magic, adventure and stories for children across the UK If you've ever wanted to fall in love with books — or help a child do the same — this is your moment.

Classical Music: Elgar The Dream Of Gerontius Huddersfield Choral Society

Few works in the choral canon invite the kind of collector's obsession that Elgar's magnificent oratorio inspires. With nearly every significant recording of The Dream of Gerontius to hand, and the bar raised considerably high over the past few years—not least by Paul McCreesh and the Gabrieli Consort, and Nicholas Collon's compelling account with the Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra—a new release must earn its place on crowded shelves. This one does.

Classical Music: Alexander Malofeev Forgotten Melodies

Now based in Berlin, Malofeev has conceived this album as a meditation on exile and longing, drawing a quietly compelling thread between his own experience of living away from Russia and that of the four composers represented here — all of them born in Russia, all of them dying far from their homeland. Mikhail Glinka died in Berlin in 1857, Alexander Glazunov in Paris in 1936, Sergei Rachmaninoff in Beverly Hills in 1943, and Nikolai Medtner in London in 1951.

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