Leap Dance Festival 26th April – 10th May 2024 Various Venues, Liverpool – – Leap Dance Festival will present two weeks of dance events showcasing Liverpool City Region talent across seven key venues this spring. From 26th April – 10th May 2024, Liverpool will come alive with dance, with performances taking place in theatres, cultural venues and public spaces on the streets of the city centre. After a successful crowdfunding campaign, organisers are delighted to announce a packed programme of events. Established local dance artists and companies perform alongside young people and community groups, in a range of styles from burlesque and breakdance to contemporary…
Author: Ally Goodman
World-renowned sitar player and maverick musician, Niladri Kumar, performing alongside virtuoso percussionist Yashwant Vaishnav
A singer and musician from Liverpool is holding a ‘Youth Opera Boot Camp’ in the city this half-term, looking to inspire a new generation of artists and make vocal and theatre training accessible to everyone.
Milap teams up with The Liverpool International Jazz Festival to present The Attuned Quartet this February!
LA FERIA: Festival of Latin American Arts and Culture 20th to 23rd September Varius Venues, Liverpool – – Bringing a vibrant and eclectic programme of music, dance, storytelling, street arts and culture from the rich diversity of the Latin American continent, LA FERIA will take over city centre venues in Liverpool this September. Celebrating the festival’s return this autumn, the incomparable ‘Voice of Tango’ Martin Alvarado from Buenos Aires, Argentina will join the lineup, alongside the hypnotic rhythms and melodies of the Mexican & Colombian Electronic Cumbia outfit Mambe & Danochilango. Telling his story of life as a Bolivian living in the UK, Victor Rios will kick-off the series of…
A Riverdance star is bringing a new show featuring ‘vibrant and elegant flamenco with a contemporary twist’ to Liverpool later this month. On Friday 28th July at The Capstone Theatre, Magdalena Mannion’s ‘Flamenco Trio’ will showcase dance, piano and voice, travelling together through a vibrant and elegant repertoire of traditional flamenco with a twist. Magdalena is a strong and rhythmic dancer of great expression and charm, with a more contemporary approach to flamenco, and was a soloist in the 2021 sell-out tour of Riverdance, delighting audiences with her ‘Firedance’. She brings with her two artists from Córdoba in southern Spain; Alfonso…
The first three acts heading to Africa Oyé in Liverpool’s Sefton Park this summer have been announced! This year’s festival is to be held on the 17th and 18th June in Sefton Park, with artists from Ghana, Guinea-Bissau and Cameroon make up the first wave of performers to be announced with plenty more still to come. Following on from the incredible 30th anniversary year in 2022, one of Merseyside’s most picturesque green spaces will once again be filled with the music and culture of Africa, the Caribbean and the Diaspora, for two free days of live music, workshops, DJ stages, food stalls and a range…
ORMSKIRK – The Arts Centre – 9th Feb 2023 LANCASTER – The Dukes – 16th Feb 2023 BLACKPOOL – The Old Electric – 24th Feb 2023 LONDON – Jacksons Lane – 2nd Mar 2023 LONDON – Omnibus Theatre – 31st Mar 2023 LIVERPOOL – Unity Theatre – 6th Apr 2023 An acclaimed performance artist from Liverpool is bringing her powerful show to venues across the country, shining the spotlight on issues that queer woman face on a daily basis. Barely Visible by Rowena Gander is an empowering physical solo performance that explores “sexualisation, (fe)male gaze and what it really feels like to live in the shadows”.…
A new work is heading to the Unity Theatre in Liverpool next week in which a non-binary artist describes ‘the finding, the fallout and the freedom of finding their voice’.
A ten-day festival of Arab music and culture is underway across venues in Liverpool starting this Thursday evening at the Liverpool Philharmonic Music Room.