Event type: Concert

Angeline is one of the freshest voices in English folk music today, celebrated for her soulful, resonant voice, evocative songwriting, and deeply affecting performances. Her artistry has earned standing ovations on stages large and small, with Mojo ranking her #5 among key voices of 2023.

A singer, multi-instrumentalist and songwriter, Angeline’s music explores ordinary lives with reverence and curiosity. Accompanying herself on autoharp, dulcimer, and mbira, or singing unaccompanied, she delivers performances that linger long in memory. The Birmingham born-musician is now settled in Cornwall, where she is an active figure in the local music scene.

Her groundbreaking album The Sorrow Songs: Folk Songs of Black British Experience, released on Topic Records, illuminated the often-overlooked Black British presence within the folk canon. Hailed as The Guardian’s Folk Album of the Year, it spent 15 weeks in the Top 40 Official Folk Albums Chart and is described by Angeline as a re-storying and a gift to forgotten Black ancestors and today’s folk community.

Programme: Haydn The Seven Last Words of Christ, Trad. (arr. Danish String Quartet) Easter Sunday – Polsk after Rasmus Storm

Performers: Róisín Verity violin, Sarah Hill violin, Dani Sanxis viola, Nick Byrne cello

The Liverpool String Quartet present a profoundly moving performance of Joseph Haydn’s The Seven Last Words of Christ. Originally composed for Holy Week, this powerful work unfolds through seven deeply expressive movements, taking the listener on a journey of reflection and emotion.

Since debuting in 1990, The Brand New Heavies have translated their love of sophisticated ’70s funk grooves into an ever evolving sound that has ignited dancefloors and inspired fans for over thirty years.

Their huge success with ‘Brother Sister’ continued with the follow-up ‘Shelter’, another Top 5 Platinum-certified album that featured further hits in the shape of ‘Sometimes’, ‘You Are The Universe’ and their take on ‘You’ve Got A Friend’.

Their legacy has continued to grow with consistently strong albums ever since, including 2019’s ‘TBNH’ which featured their first recordings with Angela Ricci.

2023 saw The Brand New Heavies enter a new era of rediscovery with the release of ‘Never Stop… The Best Of’. They also embarked upon the sold-out ‘Never Stop… The Greatest Hits’ tour, for which they were accompanied by the London Concert Orchestra.

Featuring Faye Donna Francis, Euan Blackman, Philly D and Lydia Shute

Celebrating the talented emerging music creators of our city, this annual collaboration brings together musicians from Liverpool Philharmonic Youth Session Band with the best of Liverpool International Music Festival (LIMF) Academy’s artists. Join us for this showcase event featuring specially arranged cross-genre originals and covers.

Presented by Katie Chatburn, Liverpool Philharmonic Youth Session Band conductor.

Rob Heron & The Tea Pad Orchestra have been gleefully trampling over genre boundaries for over a decade now, chucking rockabilly, blues, country, swing, soul and more into their musical gumbo, but always sounding mostly just like themselves.

Based in Newcastle but hailing from across the UK, the Tea Pad have released five albums, and toured widely across the British Isles and Europe, playing everywhere from Glastonbury and Cambridge Folk Festival to village halls and barns, and all points in between.

Well-known for their energetic live shows, and dry humour, they’ve toured with some of the big-name Americana outfits such as Pokey LaFarge, The Dead South, and Sierra Ferrell. They have released music on Sleazy Records (Spain) and Migraine Records (Germany), appeared multiple times on Radio 4’s Loose Ends, and had their music played by everyone from Marc Riley to Huey Morgan.

Joining Rob Heron (vocals/guitar) are Tom Cronin (mandolin/harmonica/guitar), Ben Powling (saxophone/clarinet), Ted Harbot (double bass/electric bass) and Paul Archibald (drums).

 

Key members of celebrated folk collective Transatlantic Sessions and legends in their own right, Michael McGoldrick, John McCusker and John Doyle are on the road again in 2026, bringing you their own blend of top-class folk songs, tunes and charming bonhomie.

All three musicians have won global acclaim: Mike McGoldrick is a master of flutes, whistles and Uillean pipes, a renowned composer and current member of Capercaillie. Formerly of Battlefield Band, John McCusker’s unique fiddle playing has earned him a worldwide reputation as one of the most gifted and versatile musicians of any genre. Guitarist and singer-songwriter John Doyle is an Irish music linchpin and founding member of acclaimed group Solas. They have shared stages and recording studios with everyone from Bob Dylan and Mark Knopfler to Paul Weller, Joan Baez and Linda Thompson. With their vast repertoire Mike, John & John are a rare musical treat you’ll savour for a very long time.

 

 

Peter’s Field is an epic musical chronicle that tells the story of one of the most important days in working class history.  

On 16 August 1819, 60,000 people gathered in the centre of Manchester. Many had walked miles to be there from all across Lancashire. They went to hear the famous radical speaker Henry ‘Orator’ Hunt who called for working people to have the vote. They were unarmed and peaceful. Local magistrates sent in the yeomanry cavalry and 15th Hussars to disperse the crowd and arrest Hunt. At least 18 people were killed and hundreds injured in the murderous scenes that followed. Women were deliberately targeted. It became known as the Peterloo Massacre. 

The magistrates and military were completely exonerated, and it would be 100 years until working people had the vote.   

Peter’s Field is born from years of research and comprises 19 original songs written by Sean Cooney, performed with Rowan Rheingans and Sam Carter, alongside a compelling spoken narrative derived from hundreds of eyewitness accounts. 

 

 

Dom Martin, the multi award-winning singer-songwriter from Belfast, returns with his intimate acoustic show.

At the top of his game, this UK Blues Hall of Fame performer was voted Best Acoustic Artist in 2020/21/22 and Instrumentalist of The Year in 2022/23/25, while his 2024 studio album Buried In The Hail was voted Album of The Year. Headlining many festivals and performing multiple headline tours both acoustically and with his power trio band, he is also now cutting a swathe right across Europe and beyond.

Don’t miss this emotionally charged evening in the company of Dom Martin and his bass guitar/keyboard player Ben Graham.

 

 

 

 

 

This is a choral concert of a cappella music at Liverpool Parish Church, Our Lady and St Nicholas, off Chapel Street L2 8GW; performed by Liverpool Renaissance Singers with another choir and directed by Liam Owens. The programme includes music by Herbert Howells, William Byrd, John Sheppard, William Mundy and Robert Parsons.  It as at 7.30pm on Wednesday 18th March with doors open from 7.00pm. Refreshments will be served after the performance for which voluntary donations are sought.  Tickets are £12 (A carer goes free with a disabled person as are children under 16 years). Tickets can be bought on the door using cash or card, or use this link to purchase tickets in advance:

https://www.ticketsource.co.uk/liverpool-renaissance-singers/t-xddayq

 

More details are available as well as the programme at the choir website:  www.liverpoolrenaissancesingers.org