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
Hailing from Glasgow, Conscious Pilot come to Future Yard on their debut album tour. Founded by Joe Laycock and Jack Sharp as a successor to theatrical punk group Cheap Teeth, the pair birthed the project from their joint love of immersive, beat-driven soundscapes and an exploration of subtle shifts.
They are joined by members of Catholic Action and Big Girls Blouse: Emmy Leishman and Chris McCroy. While the band’s identity is a culmination of the differences between each member, they are all bonded by a love of fast, immersive beats and flowing melodies.
The band has since been particularly active in the UK’s live music scene, having completed several tours in UK and making their first foray across Europe in 2025, culminating in two highly coveted performances at Hamburg’s Reeperbahn Festival. After releasing two EPs via Devil Duck Records, “Epoxy Plains” and “Wipe Clean”, the band are releasing their debut LP ‘Human Poultry’ on 8th May 2026.
To celebrate our Build Our Future crowdfunding campaign, we are doing what what we’ve always wanted to do – throw a 48-hour, continuous live gig to show off everything boss about Future Yard!
Starting at 6pm on Friday 6th March, and running through to 6pm on Sunday 8th March, the 48 hour spectacular will showcase the full breadth of our community-led activity; celebrating amazing local artists, the emerging regional music scene, our Mosh Tots, New Noise, Sound Check and Propeller programmes, plus our partnerships with local schools.
This event will be broken down into seven sessions, with many ways for people to engage. Entry to each session will be through a donation to the Build Our Future campaign, and will be structured on a ‘pay what you feel’ basis. If you want to come to multiple sessions, or attempt the full 48 hours, select the ‘ALL SESSIONS PASS’.
The whole event will also be live streamed for people to watch along from home and enjoy the spectacle without being in the room.
Performers include Nik Glover, steel., Workstuff, Chicken Man and the Bad Eggs, Abdicator, Two Tonne Machete, Dead Animals, 2Nice Crew, Dub Defenders, Twelve Bells, SugarShack, Beats In Bliss, News From Neptune, Dog Minder, alright (okay), Flower Show, Trial Tapes, Tender Claws, The Drop Jonnies, DAMWMSSNI, Moolakii Club, The Mosh Tots Band, Michael Aldag, Silvermoon, Catherine Bullock + very special opening guest TBA.
All funds raised at the event will contribute to our Build Our Future crowdfunder, and you can find full details on this here.
Take the finest exponents of their native Scottish fiddle styles, the finest backing in folk music, and some of the Highlands and Islands’ famed warmth and craic, distil over 25 years, and you get Blazin’ Fiddles!
One of the most lauded and best-loved acts of the Scottish music scene, from the moment the multi award-winning Blazers take the stage to whisk you on a thrilling musical journey you’re in the finest of company. The mastery of fiddle virtuosos Jenna Reid (Shetland), Kristan Harvey (Orkney) and Rua Macmillan (Highlands), grounded by the second to none, driving accompaniment of Angus Lyon (piano) and Anna Massie (guitar), will leave you reeling.
For over a quarter of a century, no other band has quite captured Scottish fiddle music’s variety, energy and sensitivity like Blazin’ Fiddles. Atop many musical twists and turns, the group’s quicksilver playing is matched by lightning sharp humour and uproarious stories from their many tunes and travels. Whatever the hall – whether of the Royal Albert or highland village variety – they’ll turn it into the liveliest and warmest of hootenannies.
Programme: Barber Overture, The School for Scandal, Grieg Piano Concerto, Sibelius Symphony No.2
Performers: Daniela Candillari conductor, Alexandra Dariescu piano
Sibelius’ Second Symphony begins with a gentle pulse and a playful little tune. By the end, it’s reaching for the stars – an awe-inspiring soundscape, complete with ringing trumpets and a melody for the ages. But any concert is a journey, and Daniela Candillari is your guide on an adventure that begins with Samuel Barber in 1930s America and sees pianist Alexandra Dariescu return to Liverpool for Grieg’s hugely popular Piano Concerto. You’ll know it when you hear it!