The 20th annual edition of Manchester Jazz Festival launches this week with its ever-impressive array of time signatures and styles, conti...

The May Day Bank Holiday is approaching this weekend and that can only mean one thing. Well, depending which century your traditions are or...

Manchester Cathedral will host, for the second year, Columns Festival on Saturday 2 May. The one-day event makes use of the cavernous Cath...

What have Andrew Nutter, Scouting for Girls and the M6 Theatre Group got in common? The answer is not immediately obvious, but one answer i...

This year’s Beat Herder is just around the corner now – due to welcome revellers within its gates from 18-20 July. Outside of the headline...

Dot to Dot Festival rolls in to town once more this weekend to kick off the festival season early, with more titillating new music in tow t...

It sounds like one. It appears like one, so surely it must be one. Well, it is a festival but, as the headline states , it's not a summe...

This month The Cornerhouse plays host to the 19th ¡Viva! Spanish and Latin American Film Festival , transporting audiences away from the gr...

Our next live music outing is now only a week away. We've invited a selection electronic maestros along to Shebeen Festival , an ecle...

The last time I entered these premises it was by traipsing through an overgrown garden littered with empty beer crates and then climbing ove...

Even some of the largest of the UK’s annual music festivals have decided to sidestep this year’s sporting attractions by taking a year off, ...

Manchester’s Free For Arts Festival returns later this year for its fourth programme of events and already the deadline for submissions has...

Chorlton Arts Festival launched on Thursday 17th   May and if you haven’t yet attended an affiliated show then you’ll have missed the like...

The aptly named Carefully Planned All-Dayer has been a fairly regular occurrence over the past couple of years. Handpicking a variety of ac...

Oh dear, the onset of the dreaded Autumnal gloom is now well and truly here and the inches of rainfall from the now ever grey skies are incr...

The Chorlton Arts Festival is back for another not-for-profit year of music, art, literature, film and performance. It has achieved a succ...