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Leeds Music History Walks - Punk and Post-Punk in Leeds, led by Sarah Statham

Leeds had a very special part to play in the evolution of punk and post-punk in the late 1970s/early 1980s. On the Punk and Post-Punk walk you’ll visit key sites from the University to the legendary F Club. The walk brings to life the very particular circumstances of Leeds at the time – the shadow of the so-called Yorkshire Ripper, The National Front and football violence, the arts courses at the city’s universities – that contributed to the sound and politics of Leeds’ own interpretation of punk and post-punk, and explores the music’s ongoing legacy in the city.

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Leeds Music History Walks - Women | Music | Leeds, led by Sarah Statham

Women | Music | Leeds takes you on a journey to explore women’s relationship with music in the city. We’ll learn about Leeds’s influential women musicians, like Big Band leader Ivy Benson, punk rockers Delta Five and Girls At Our Best, and Star Wars composer Angela Morley. We’ll revisit the places where women have danced the night away and the clubs that have put women’s needs first. And we’ll find out about some of the community-based projects that have supported and championed women to fulfil their musical dreams.

Leeds Music History Walks - ¡New Yorkshire! – Leeds indie in the noughties, led by whiskas and Simon Rix

Leeds was living the indie highlife at the turn of the 20th/21st century: Kaiser Chiefs, Sky Larkin and ¡Forward Russia! were among the city’s bands reaching national and international acclaim. Now with the 20th anniversary of Kaiser Chief’s Employment coming up, join the musicians who were there to explore key venues of the New Yorkshire scene, to hear the inside story of ‘I Predict a Riot’ and understand what made – and continues to make – Leeds especially supportive for birthing new music.

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Jon Palmer Acoustic Band

Local folk-rock favourites return for their annual show!  

Jon Palmer Acoustic Band are an award winning, high energy, 6-piece folk, roots and rock & roll band based in West Yorkshire, where they have built a strong reputation as an exciting live act. Jon Palmer, who writes all the band's songs, is a prolific songwriter who draws on his folk roots as well as more contemporary themes. The band are accomplished musicians and no strangers to the intimacy of a club setting, the warmth of a theatre, or performing on a full-blown festival stage.

Lunchtime Recital with SaxShades

Soprano: Debbie Scherer

Alto: Molly Austen

Tenor: Alison Owen-Morley

Baritone: Sarah Jobson

SaxShades was formed in 2001 by Debbie Scherer and Sarah Jobson and has existed in our current line up since 2016. With a standard saxophone quartet instrumentation of soprano, alto, tenor and baritone saxophones, SaxShades plays a wide range of music from Baroque to Rock and just about everything in between.

Learning To Fly

Critically acclaimed storyteller James Rowland returns with his captivating mix of theatre, comedy and music.

“Joyful” ★★★★★ The Guardian

LEARNING TO FLY sees James tell the story of a remarkable friendship he made when he was a lonely, unhappy teenager with the scary old lady who lived in the spooky house on his street.

It's about connection, no matter what the obstacles; about love’s eternal struggle with time; about music and its ability to heal.

It's also about her last wish: to get high once before she died.

Uplifting, big hearted and hilarious.

Lunchtime Recital with Catherine Strachan & David Hammond

Catherine Strachan grew up in Aberdeen, where she benefited from a superb start to her musical education thanks to the local authority music service and local youth orchestras. Catherine studied modern and baroque cello performance with Myra Chahin and Alison McGillivray at the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland (formerly RSAMD), and followed this with an MA in baroque performance practice at the University of York.

Ryan Young

2022 MG ALBA Musician of The Year nominee Ryan Young brings new and exciting ideas to traditional Scottish music, receiving international praise for his spell-binding interpretations on the fiddle. His debut album was recorded with four time GRAMMY winner Jesse Lewis (who has worked with the likes of Bela Fleck and Yo Yo Ma) and launched at Feakle Traditional Music Festival in County Clare, accompanied by renowned guitarist, Dennis Cahill (Martin Hayes; The Gloaming).

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