MARSDEN Jazz Festival is asking audiences to help them return to live music this October by supporting their Crowdfunding campaign to raise £10,000. Yorkshire Pennines-based…
View More Marsden Jazz Festival hopes crowdfunding support will secure spectacular return
UPPERMILL record shop owner Brett Savage has penned the first of a new series of musical profiles for the Independent. Here, for starters, Brett from…
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A LYDGATE musician and composer has been handed chance to perform at the world’s leading arts festival. Jacob Connor, 28, won a commission to produce…
View More Composer Jacob set for Manchester International Festival debut
MUSIC-LOVERS across Saddleworth will be delighted to hear that the Uppermill Summer Music Festival is returning this July. The local summer celebration of fine classical…
View More Sound of music returns with Summer Festival in Uppermill
John Kirkbride takes a look at the Whit Friday Band Contest in Saddleworth (illustrated with cartoons by the late Jack Kirkbride, former cartoonist for the…
View More The bands play on: Whit Friday contests in Saddleworth
THE sound of music is returning to Saddleworth’s hills as plans for Wellifest this summer are still on track. The popular family music festival was…
View More Wellifest to bring sound of music back to Saddleworth
By Simon Smedley OLDHAM will be rocking to the sound of Ska and 2-Tone on September 25 as ace tribute band Manchester Ska Foundation returns…
View More Manchester Ska Foundation returns to rock Oldham 10 years after first show
SOME of the country’s finest musicians star alongside pupils from Saddleworth School in a special online Christmas Concert 2020. Saddleworth School’s annual events including festive…
View More Top musicians and Saddleworth School pupils star in special Christmas Concert video
THERE is still chance to watch two top Saddleworth bands in action tonight (Friday, October 30) even though limited tickets for the latest Legends Live…
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MARSDEN Jazz Festival is taking world-renowned musicians out onto the wild moorland and recording them playing live for online audiences to enjoy. The Festival, one…
View More Music and moorland combined in ground-breaking digital project from Marsden Jazz Festival
