A Celebration of Scottish Folk Music Celebrating the Music Room’s rich history of championing folk music – and continuing our tour of incredible traditional music from across the home nations – we’re heading north of the border. Tonight, we’re welcoming back some of Scotland’s finest folk artists – award-winning trad pioneer Anna Massie and the magnificent Breabach, who return to the Music Room for the fifth time.
A Celebration of Scottish Folk Music
Celebrating the Music Room’s rich history of championing folk music – and continuing our tour of incredible traditional music from across the home nations – we’re heading north of the border. This afternoon, we’re welcoming back some of Scotland’s finest folk artists – the multi award-winning RURA and, appearing in the Music Room for the fifth time, Siobhan Miller.
A Celebration of Welsh Folk Music
In every corner of Britain, there are tales to be told – and great folk artists ready to tell them through song. Here in the Music Room, we have a proud folk music tradition, and so as part of our tenth anniversary celebrations we’re shining a spotlight on folk musicians from across the home nations, celebrating their countries and their music. First up, we welcome three captivating Welsh artists – VRï, Cerys Hafana and 9Bach – back to the Music Room.
Please note that this is a standing event. If you have any access needs, please contact the Box Office on 0151 709 3789.
Over the last decade, we’ve worked closely with cultural groups from across the city to bring a whole world of music to our stage. One of those key partnerships has been with LUMA Creations – an organisation that showcases the vibrancy and spirit of Latin America. Now, LUMA is celebrating 50 years since its founders came to Liverpool as refugees, and of course it’s our tenth anniversary too, so we know they’ll be bringing a real party…
Tonight, LUMA returns to the Music Room with La Feria Festival for the third year running, bringing with them a powerful evening of musical innovation and cultural connection, as the acclaimed Antonio Monasterio Ensamble makes their UK debut.
With their mix of Afro-Cuban style, pop, traditional griot music, and lilting, mellifluous rhythms, Orchestra Baobab get audiences dancing along to their classic tunes around the world.
Orchestra Baobab’s story began in the 1960s. In a fashionable club built around a baobab tree, the band developed a distinctive take on a raft of styles, and set the tempo for a new era of Senegalese and African music! Classic albums followed, and now they celebrate decades of incredible music.
Atcha Lene – let’s go!
Moolakii Club present an evening of avant-garde film and experimental electronic music, in what is fast becoming a must-attend event. The night consists of live soundtracks to obscure, surreal, groundbreaking early film, performed by electronic musicians in an immersive live setting.
Performers for the next event are:
Polypores – Intricately woven modular synth tapestries, and whirling psychedelic freak-outs with hypnotic polyrhythms and fuzzed-up drum machines. A riveting artist and performer, channelling the weird energies that make up his fractal musical universe
Guerrilla Biscuits – Electronic artist. Victorian cosmic horror, Greek mythology and modular soundscapes
Giants Of Discovery – Glitchy beats and sneaky tunes embedded in sweet, filthy grooves… a dirty electronic groove machine
One of Colombia’s most celebrated music collectives are heading to the Wirral this month.Systema Solar, known for turning stages into explosive carnival-like celebrations, will land in Birkenhead for a rare UK performance at Future Yard, armed with their highly anticipated new album Futuro Primitivo.Systema Solar is not your average band, they’re an artistic force. Formed in 2006 during an art biennial in Medellín, the collective was born from a collision of music, visual art, and social commentary. Since then, they’ve carved out an unmistakable identity rooted in Colombian street party culture (pikós, verbenas) merged with hip-hop, house, techno, champeta, bullerengue and cumbia. It’s dance music with deep roots and even deeper intent.Their live shows are the stuff of legend. Expect a kaleidoscope of colour, handmade visuals, choreographed chaos, and a sonic journey that defies genre and gravity. Their audiovisual style, dubbed Berbenautika, is a high-energy fusion of culture, satire, joy, and resistance, a sound system built for celebration and provocation.Over nearly two decades, Systema Solar have become an international festival favourite, with show-stealing sets at Glastonbury, Lollapalooza, Roskilde, and Colombia’s Estéreo Picnic. Their discography, from their eponymous 2009 debut to the critically acclaimed Rumbo a Tierra, is a roadmap of Colombia’s modern musical identity. Rolling Stone ranked their 2016 reissue among the top three Latin albums of the year, praising their ability to “command bystanders to get rowdy on the dance floor” while championing the stories of immigrants and people of colour.
But this is a party with purpose. Songs like Rumbera, featured on the FIFA 17 soundtrack, subvert traditional gender roles and celebrate diversity, with music videos that elevate cis, trans, young, old, Afro-Colombian, and Indigenous women. Their work is often tied to social campaigns, like #DaleLaVueltaMama, encouraging a reimagining of how women are seen and breaking down heteronormative gender stereotypes.Their Birkenhead show is one of just three UK dates on this tour, making it an unmissable opportunity to witness a band at the peak of their creative powers. Whether you’re a long-time fan of the band or Latin alternative music, a lover of live energy, or simply curious to experience something radically fresh, Systema Solar will shake your soul and move your body.
Mobius Loop come to Future Yard on Sunday 9th November as part of their next performance adventure with the Peaceful World Tour.
The family folk-rebel band are heading out to the UK’s best grassroots music venues to bring their mesmerising festival vibrations indoors, launching their new music including the brand new single PEACEFUL WORLD.
The trio, celebrated as “Preston’s most successful band,” create gloriously eccentric folk stories, fusing world music and conscious rap with eruptions of free-form dance charged with an intimately powerful and intense energetic live performance.
Expect a night of ecstatic dancing, majestic melodies, epic beats and vibrant voices all woven together in this call for a peaceful world!
Support on the night comes from Liverpool’s Aimee Lea Frances, a songwriter who delves into spiritual topics in her heartfelt, emotional music.
Treat yourself on a Friday night, as the sun sets on another week. We’ll bring the pizza and vibes, you bring your tastebuds.
With offers on Birko’s finest slices (including the insanely popular Gherkinhead), happy hour deals on drinks, plus an immaculately-curated set of tunes to keep the vibes going, our Slice Parties are COMPLETELY FREE entry.
Backyard Balearic join us to provide the soundtrack to the evening, slicing up some heavy tunes throughout the evening. DJ and runner of label Melodies Of Love, Backyard Balearic is going to ensure that the sun sets over the Merseyterranean to the best possible tunes.
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James Yorkston returns to Future Yard!
Back for a special solo show on Monday 8th December, the haunting Scottish folkster supports the release of his sixteenth album Songs for Nina and Johanna (out in August), recorded in Stockholm once again with the Second Hand Orchestra.
Tickets on sale now.