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Music
Celebrated Malian Songwriter and Guitarist, Afel Bocoum, To Play Liverpool
Africa Oyé have teamed up with the Liverpool Philharmonic to bring the acclaimed Afel Bocoum to the city in January 2026.
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Festivals
La Feria: Annual celebration of Latin American Culture Returns This October
Preparations are in full swing for the region’s annual celebration of Latin American culture taking place this October. La Feria will take over multiple Merseyside venues from 1 – 5 October 2025 and organisers have promised that it will be ‘bigger, bolder, and more unforgettable than ever’. The theme for this year’s event is “Experience, Belong, Celebrate” with audiences invited to dive into a vibrant celebration of Latin American music, art and culture. The festival will…
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Festivals
BlackFest: Celebration of Black Creativity Takes Over Capstone Theatre With Spoken Word And Classical Music
Liverpool’s Capstone Theatre will be alive with music, words and community spirit this October as it plays host to two powerful cultural events that celebrate Black creativity and heritage. BlackFest will be taking over the Liverpool Hope University venue as part of their annual Liverpool grassroots celebration, first with an evening of spoken word and then a special Samuel Coleridge-Taylor Festival. The Spoken Word Poetry Night on Friday 3 October will see four artists explore themes of race, identity, culture, love and survival.…
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Theatre in Liverpool
Unity Theatre Announces Autumn & Winter Programme
Liverpool’s thriving combined arts venue – Unity Theatre – has announced its brand new Autumn / Winter 2025 season, featuring a varied programme of high-quality theatre, arts, music and performance. Serving as a counterpoint the mainstream, Unity exist to champion diverse arts and platform underrepresented voices – and this season’s programme does just that. Unity has been behaving radically onstage since the 1930s, with its roots in The Unity Theatre movement – a national theatrical…
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Festivals
Milap collaborate with Royal Liverpool Philharmonic for INDIKA 2025
INDIKA 2025 returns to Liverpool this October with a fresh, expanded lineup of events. The 15 day celebration of Indian music, dance and culture, will take place across the entire Liverpool City Region, bringing the best of Indian arts to an even wider audience. This year, Milap are collaborating with Royal Liverpool Philharmonic to present a series of music concerts featuring Indian classical and Indian-jazz-funk as well as a family-centred programme for children to enjoy.…
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Festivals
Milap Present Indian Jazz fusion, Futuristic Folk & Experimental South Asian Electronica At INDIKA Festival
This October, Milap’s INDIKA Festival returns to Liverpool with a fresh expanded lineup of events. Chiming with Milap’s 40 year anniversary, the INDIKA festival returns bigger, brighter and bolder than ever with 15 days of Indian music, dance and culture across the Liverpool City Region, bringing the very best of Indian Arts to an even wider audience. This year, Milap are also spotlighting many contemporary and experimental artists in the festival, blending Indian music with jazz,…
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Festivals
Liverpool Arab Arts Festival Comes To Liverpool Next Week
LAAF (Liverpool Arab Arts Festival) is the longest running annual festival of Arab arts and culture in the UK. Returning for its 23rd year this July, the festival theme is Nostalgia, which will be explored through a diverse range of disciplines, including music, theatre and performance, visual art, spoken word, literature and film. The full 2025 lineup has now been released with more information about the festival in both English and Arabic here. MUSIC AKRAM…
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Music
INDIKA IS BACK: Milap’s Festival of Indian Arts & Culture returns to Liverpool this October
INDIKA, Milap’s festival of Indian Arts, returns to Liverpool this October with a fresh, expanded lineup of events. The 15 day celebration of Indian music, dance and culture, will take place across the entire Liverpool City Region, bringing the best of Indian arts to an even wider audience. Chiming with Milap’s 40 year anniversary, this October, the INDIKA festival will feature a programme of Indian music and dance, ranging from cutting-edge contemporary to deeply rooted…
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Music
Penny Lane Weekender returns for 2025
This August, the Penny Lane Weekender returns for its third year, continuing Penny Lane’s global musical legacy with a 3-day festival spotlighting local and independent artists and bands. Taking over venues on and around Liverpool’s iconic Penny Lane, the festival celebrates the city’s vibrant grassroots music scene. Created in 2023 by Liverpool Post-Punk band Pleasure Island, the grassroots community festival was conceived to showcase Liverpool-based acts from the local community. Initially billed as a one-off event in…
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Theatre in Liverpool
‘Intimate And Interactive’ Theatre Returns To The Adelphi In Follow-up To Surreal Sell-out Show
Immersive theatre returns to one of Liverpool’s most famous hotels this summer with an audience experience that promises to be both ‘intimate and interactive’. The creative team behind The Bedroom which sold out its run at The Adelphi last year are heading back to the Edwardian city centre building for 2025 with follow-up show, The Living Room. Taking place in a ‘private, hidden room’ at The Adelphi, The Living Room is another unique site-specific piece of theatre brought to the city…
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Things to do in Liverpool
More Events Announced For Liverpool Arab Arts Festival 2025
Liverpool Arab Arts Festival (LAAF), the longest running annual festival of Arab arts and culture in the UK, returns for its 23rd year this July – and has just announced more events for this year’s edition!LAAF exists to support and champion creatives from across the Arab region and its diaspora, in the belief that art and creativity have the power to express a shared humanity. The festival also celebrates Liverpool’s unique identity; a city, with…
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Music
Colombian Music Collective Systema Solar Come To Future Yard This June
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,…
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Music
Liverpool Arab Arts Festival Presents Akram Abdulfattah This July
Akram Abdulfattah is a Palestinian-American violinist who combines jazz with middle eastern and Indian music. Akram’s music is influenced by Hindu, Turkish, and Persian styles, reflecting the rich legacy and culture of oriental sounds in a modernized fashion. In 2023, his multinational group visited the UK for the first time, performing a debut London show, and appearing at Knockengorroch and Cambridge Folk festivals. Akram’s talent has received international recognition as he’s won prestigious awards and engaged in various international and cross-culture projects.…
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Music
World Premiere of Symphony Orchestra Tribute To The Beatles Takes Place In Liverpool This July
A unique tribute to the music of The Beatles, which has been over two years in the making, will be performed for the first time ever in Liverpool this July. Another Seven Symphonies will see 39 different Beatles songs – divided over 7 symphonies performed by a full symphonic orchestra without the use of any rhythm section or vocals. WedgeView Music Netherlands will present this world premiere at the exquisite Tung Auditorium, that aptly resides inside the Yoko Ono Lennon Centre. The Antwerp Philharmonic Orchestra, conducted by the Brazilian Alexandra Arrieche considered one of the most exciting and unique conductors of her…
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Music
Shez Raja Returns For Homecoming Show On Upcoming UK Tour
One of the UK’s most beloved Bass Guitarists is returning for a special homecoming show featuring a star-studded lineup, as part of Milap’s 40th Anniversary in Liverpool. This July, Shez Raja will take to the stage of the Wirral’s lauded Future Yard alongside electric guitar sensation Guthrie Govan, to present his new album Spellbound. Born and raised in Parkgate, Raja will return to his hometown venue following a stellar sellout show last September. Voted one…
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Music
Kathy Halter Releases New Single ‘Heavy Heart’ Ahead of Immersive Listening Event
June 6th 2025 sees the release of Heavy Heart, the first track from the upcoming debut solo EP of gifted songwriter, singer and multi-instrumentalist Kathy Halter. To coincide with the release, Kathy is hosting an immersive listening experience, exploring the impact of grief, loss and love. Kathy Halter’s new single Heavy Heart is a beguiling song of calm, tender encouragement; the reaching out of a guiding hand to gently soothe the sense of loss in someone, and the weight of grief…
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Music
Liverpool-Based Art-Pop Songwriter, Dorothy Bird, Announces New Album ‘Whispering Paper’
Following acclaim for her debut album Belonging, art-pop songwriter Dorothy Bird returns with her most personal work to date. Whispering Paper will be released on May 3rd 2025 via Liverpool’s Crosstown Records, with a limited edition 12” black vinyl and also available digitally. With ringing endorsements from BBC Introducing, Tom Robinson’s Fresh On The Net, and a host of tastemaking magazines in both England and her native Germany, Dorothy’s sound is startlingly original and unmistakably…
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Music
What’s The Story? In Conversation With Oasis Manager Marcus Russell Coming To Tung Auditorium
This May, The Tung Auditorium will present Before Oasis: In conversation with Marcus Russell – a rare opportunity to hear the story of how one of the UK’s most successful artist managers came to work with Oasis, the definitive act of Britpop. Along with Dr Mike Jones from the University of Liverpool’s Department of Music – a lifelong friend of Russell’s – they will reflect on memories of Russell’s formative music industry experiences as a…
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Music
Manchester Collective Bring SERENITY 2.0 To The Tung Auditorium This March
This Saturday, cutting-edge, experimental ensemble Manchester Collective will enthral audiences on The Tung Auditorium stage with an innovative, boundary-pushing performance… one minute, the sound vibrates through you, your hairs pulled on end. The next: a blissful calm descends. The Collective will perform Ben Nobuto’s SERENITY 2.0 – a glitched-out collage of frenzied strings, percussion and samples. Transcending into the eclectic soundscapes of prolific musician and composer Nabihah Iqbal’s What Psyche Felt – Nabihah’s first commission…
