Manchester Folk Festival 2021

The award winning Kabantu are a collective from Manchester who unravel new marriages of music from around the globe to celebrate the space where different…

Dave Harbottle and Freya Jonas have evolved a compelling live signature sound blending concertina, harmonium, banjo, stomp box, acoustic guitar and cittern with their powerful…

Luke Concannon's first UK show in over 3 years. Luke’s mesmerising live shows are legendary, performing his ‘direct-from-the-heart’ songs with unrivalled passion and commitment.

This Autumn Sam Carter embarks on a national tour to support the release of his 2020 album, Home Waters

Banter are rooted in English traditional music but incorporate influences of pop, jazz, soul and big band sounds.

See the new six-piece line-up of the Gigspanner Big Band perform live at HOME. Characterised by riotous inventiveness, technically gifted individual playing and subtle collaborative…

Sheelanagig perform their array of foot-stomping folk tunes at HOME as part of Manchester Folk Festival 2021

Jack Rutter is an outstanding young folk singer, guitarist and multi-instrumentalist from West Yorkshire.

Musicians from Northumberland, Scotland and England invoke the dark, powerful, shamanic sounds of Ancient Northumbria and broadcast them to the modern world.

Hot on the heels of her UK Americana Award nomination Lady Nade is soaring into summer 2021 with her third album release ‘Willing’.

Described by The Guardian as ‘the finest instrumental duo on the traditional scene’, the multi award-winning duo of John Spiers and Jon Boden rocketed onto…

This is a rare opportunity to experience a different side to the band, with the show featuring a mix of acoustic and a cappella song…

The English Fiddle Ensemble have the aim of allowing their audience to feel the bite and lift of four fiddles resonating to create joyous harmonies…

Performing together for over 10 years, much loved Yorkshire folk duo Belinda O’Hooley and Heidi Tidow come to HOME as part of Manchester Folk Festival…

California-born, based in Manchester, Jesca Hoop a musician’s musician - her beautiful songs, rooted in the folk tradition are intricately detailed, acoustic-led pieces that teem…

The Breath: guitarist Stuart McCallum & singer/flautist Ríoghnach Connolly. An unlikely pairing - she a folk singer, loud, brash & mischievous, he an acclaimed jazz…

John Bramwell, is one of the UK's most unique, and talented singer-song writers who has been performing as a musician for over 30 years.

Formed in Beirut, BBC Radio 2’s Mark Radcliffe hailed The Trials of Cato as “one of the real discoveries on the folk circuit in recent…