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.
Legendary musician and broadcaster Tom Robinson has become a bit of a regular in the Music Room over the years, bringing much anticipated shows to our stage every year. So, of course, we had to have him back – now for the fourth time – as part of our anniversary celebrations, and he’s bringing a real treat of an evening.
Tom Robinson presents an evening of songs and stories from fifty years wandering the wilder shores of the record industry. Classic hits such as ‘War Baby’, ‘Up Against The Wall’, and ‘2-4-6-8 Motorway’ rub shoulders with a Radio 1 ban for being ‘Glad To be Gay’, rocking against racism with The Clash, writing songs with Elton John, headlining Glasto with Peter Gabriel, drug smuggling in East Germany, two nervous breakdowns and a year in tabloid hell after falling in love with a woman. Plus fan favourites from his vast back catalogue, spanning Café Society in 1975 to his acclaimed 2015 comeback album, Only The Now.
Ian Prowse’s Monday Club at the Cavern is the stuff of legend, and Ian himself is a legend in the Music Room. So it only makes sense that we combine the two as part of our Music Room 10 celebrations. Ian Prowse – the Music Room’s most frequent performer – joins us to present a curated showcase of some of his favourite artists in a very special edition of the Monday Club.
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!
“All Things Must Pass”, they say. Well, George Harrison’s name will live on forever.
Something About George – The George Harrison Story, the musical biopic tribute about the so-called “quiet” Beatle is back following a hugely successful 2024 UK and Ireland tour.
From the creators of Something About Simon – The Paul Simon Story, comes a show that answers the question “where does life take you after being in the greatest band in the history of the world?”
Starring West End actor and musician Daniel Taylor, Something About George – The George Harrison Story tells the truly remarkable tale of one of music’s most understated icons.
Featuring a five-piece band performing beautiful songs such as “My Sweet Lord”, “Something”, “Got My Mind Set On You” and “Handle With Care”, the show includes incredible solo material and music from rock n’ roll’s greatest supergroup, The Travelling Wilburys – not forgetting more than a few Beatles’ classics along the way. From heartbreak to hedonism and song writing to instant success, Something About George will show you a life that was anything but quiet.
A joint choral concert with a Norwegian Choir from Oslo Abildso Bygdekor with a mixture of Norwegian compositions and renaissance music from William Byrd and Victoria with Liverpool Renaissance Singers. It is at Liverpool Parish Church Our Lady and St Nicholas Old Churchyard off Chapel Street fronting the Strand and opposite the Liver Building at 7.30pm in 31.5.2025 doors open 7pm. Tickets £12 for all in sale on the door by cash or card or online from Ticketsource using this link:
https://www.ticketsource.co.uk/liverpool-renaissance-singers/t-lnlqmpn
More details available on the choir website:
www.liverpoolrenaissancesungers.org
This adventure is more than a story
Deep in the woods, the trees are whispering. Beneath their branches, thrilling stories are being told.
For eight young friends with big imaginations, the woods are where excitement and adventure play out. Day after day they invent stories about giants and dragons, sword fights and vengeance. But today, things are different. An army is coming – not a play army, but a real one – and the soldiers have the kids’ homes in their sights.
In this moment of terrible danger, can these friends become the heroes they always imagined they could be?
Packed with magical songs and exhilarating live music, The Snow Dragons is what happens when fairytales turn dark – when childhood games and the grown-up world collide. Filling the Everyman with fun and invention, laughter and tears, our YEP young people bring this fast-moving musical adventure bursting into brilliant life.
A musical by Lizzie Nunnery and Vidar Norheim
Liverpool Bach Collective was formed in 2013, with the aim of putting on performances of J S Bach’s cantatas in churches in and around Liverpool every month as part of Sunday Evensong or Vespers. The cantatas chosen are based on, or are at least relevant to, the readings of the day in the churches visited.
The Collective usually consists of eight singers and an ensemble of around ten players, generally strings, oboes, bassoon and organ; the ensemble is enlarged when the music demands it. The performers are a mix of professional, semi-professional and amateur musicians, all of whom have a love for the music of Bach and are united in their passion and their commitment in performing these wonderful works.
As the Collective’s season began, so it ends, with a cantata of general praise as the Collective’s contribution to this year’s Prescot Festival. In this festive work, to the usual instrumental ensemble, four vocal soloists and chorus, are added three trumpets and timpani.
By the end of the current season, the Collective will have given eighty-one cantata performances, involving sixty-six different cantatas in forty-three churches, from Hightown to Rainhill and Ince Blundell to Birkenhead. The ensemble continues to enlarge its following of interested listeners.
St Mary’s Church (Prescot Parish Church)
Church Street
Prescot
L34 1LA
Admission: Free on the door
Shh! Sip away and sway and celebrate the sounds of summer, at the newest Jazz night in Liverpool.
Join us for an exciting evening of live fun music, with sultry sounds that will transport you to a world of sophistication and rhythm with a Latin twist. The Secret Jazz Club warmly invites you to enjoy the upbeat sounds of Latin Jazz, on a night where summer starts. Descend into our stylish basement bar – for those lucky enough to know the password – and unwind with friends in a vibrant and relaxing atmosphere. Whether you’re a jazz aficionado or simply looking for a unique night out this summer, this event will leave you tapping your feet and craving more.
This is a ticketed event with a limited number of seats available, so advance booking is advised. Last orders at the bar will be called at 10.30pm and we invite you to stay up until 11pm, should you wish to continue your evening a little longer. The Secret Jazz Club is a password-protected event; the code you’ll need to pass through the door will be emailed to you upon booking.
Mini Maestros music sessions for 0-5s on Saturday mornings at 10.15 and 11.15.
Mini Maestros is an interactive, multi-sensory music session for children and their grown-ups. With percussion, signing and dance, the sessions present an engaging platform for children to explore sound and song whilst learning and having fun!
Come along on Saturday mornings and join us making music at the Everyman Theatre Cafe.
Mini Maestros is run by RISE Music Education CIC, a local collective of professional musicians working to deliver engaging creative arts projects in the community.
Book your place direct from the RISE website.
