Music Live MANCHESTER - Artists

This will be a showcase for Manchester's community of fantastic artists, and the artists who come to visit our little town


It's a work in progress, so please bear with us as we build something special. As ever, please get in touch to contribute.

Amandinus

Contemporary and exciting blend of roots-rock and country-soul music

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The James Hunter Six

British rhythm & blues and soul band led by singer and songwriter James Hunter

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Big Narstie

British MC, author, rapper, singer, songwriter, comedian and television presenter.

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Bethany Reynolds

Bethany Reynolds is a nine year old composer, pianist and cellist

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Sam Carter

BBC Folk Award-winning singer, guitarist, and songwriter

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Jamie Francis

Banjo, guitar, songwirter

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Madison

Band of the Boschverse

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Brave Rival

Award-winning rock band on a mission

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Rob Carey

Award-nominated songwriter

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Gigspanner Big Band

As collaborations go, it doesn't get much more mouth-watering than this

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Dhangsha

Aniruddha Das: minimalism, repetition and fragmentation in sound

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Flook

Anglo-Irish band playing traditional-style instrumental music, much of it penned by the band themselves

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The Wilderness Yet

An eclectic tapestry of traditional and original songs

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Lowri Evans

Americana/roots singer songwriter whose songs take their musical colours from a broad palette that includes americana, folk, country and blues.

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Jamie Williams & The Roots Collective

Americana, blues, country, rock band

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Emilia Quinn

Americana singer-songwriter

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The Joe Keeley Band

Alt-country troubadour

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Wait For June

All season folk pop

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Winter Gardens

A vibrant spectrum of dynamic, contrasting sounds

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Pearl Handled Revolver

A unique blend of primal blues, cult film scores, bare bones stoner rock and blackened psychedelic soul

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Bhavik Haria

A unifying voice for Bhajans

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Megson

A truly unique brand of folk music

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KEGS

A respected band of longstanding and impeccable pedigree

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Berenice

A relentless, uncompromising and ferocious blend of hardcore, metal, crust and grind!

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Vigilantes

"American influences with British hearts" - Huw Stephens, BBC Radio 1

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M G Boulter

Vignettes of suburban lives and seaside communities

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Paramore GB

Tribute to Paramore

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Dookie

Tribute band

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Noasis

Tribute band

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Down for the Count

The UK’s hardest swinging band

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The ELO Encounter

The UK’s greatest Electric Light Orchestra tribute act

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Stereophonies

The UK's first Sterophonics tribute band

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Nearly Dan

The spirit and sound of Steely Dan in concert

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WOOM

South London four-piece choir

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Adrenalin

Rock indie party function band

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Simon Spillett

One of the UK’s busiest and most respected bop tenor saxophonists

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Paul Rose Trio

One of the finest electric guitar players of his generation

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Paul Higgs

One of Britain’s finest jazz trumpetists

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Bill Ryder-Jones

Musical polymath

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