Jack Dee

+ support SOLD OUT

A warm-up gig for Jack’s new tour. Details to follow

23 March 7.30pm (doors 7pm)

Tickets £15

Dales Craft Fair

Our friends return  for their first fair of the year, with more wonderful hand-crafted items.

30/31 March, 10-4.30pm

Free Admission.

Town Hall Chamber Series

Our friends from the Hallé Orchestra return with a programme of chamber music from the Zelkova String Quartet.With music from Mozart, Mendelssohn and Dvorak.

Caroline Pether and Ed Pether – violin

Anna Brigham – viola

Jonathan Pether – cello.

Mozart Quartet in B flat major K458

Mendelssohn Quartet in E minor opus 44 no 2

Dvorak Quartet in G major opus 106

Sunday 31 March, 7.30pm (doors 7pm)

Tickets £15

Alan Carr 

Work in Progress – SOLD OUT

Join Alan Carr, for a night of work in progress comedy with support from Kelly Convey.

This is your chance to see Alan do one of his first work in progress shows this year. Carr’s unique style of humour and effortless stage presence has made him one of Britain’s most successful and treasured comedians. With sixteen series of Channel 4’s Chatty Man under his belt, Alan has won a multitude of awards including the publicly-voted NTA and a prestigious BAFTA.

Kelly Convey is a So You Think You’re Funny Finalist and she was voted by The Metro as ‘1 of 9 Hilarious Women to Look Out for in 2017’.

SOLD OUT

Peter Knight’s Gigspanner

10th Anniversary Tour

In the wake of his departure from Steeleye Span, multi award winning fiddle player Peter Knight has turned his full attention to his trio Gigspanner, and in the process established their reputation as one of the most genuinely ground-breaking forces on the British folk scene, inspiring Maverick magazine to write “Gigspanner are pushing at the boundaries, expanding the possibilities and in the process making some of the most beautiful music the genre has to offer”

Described by Folk Radio UK as one of the “most quietly brilliant sets of musicians in the folk world and beyond”, they take self-penned material along with music rooted in the British Isles and with the flick of a bow, a finely chosen chord or slip of a beat, produce richly atmospheric arrangements “with notes seemingly plucked from the stars and rhythms from the equator”

The captivating nature of their set stems not only from their creative ability and vision, but the eclectic nature of the material chosen. There are eddies and undercurrents drawn from a whole palette of influences which engage and enthral audiences to the closing notes.

Their November 2017 release, ‘The Wife of Urban Law’ has already received several ‘Best Of’ end of year accolades, including making it on to Mojo Magazine‘s ‘The 10 Best Folk Albums of 2017’ list, and Peter has received Fatea’s Award for Instrumentalist of the Year for Achievement in 2017.

Saturday 13 April, 7.30pm

Tickets £15

Peterloo

Film Friday: Peterloo
Internationally acclaimed and Oscar-nominated filmmaker Mike Leigh portrays one of the bloodiest episodes in British history, the infamous Peterloo Massacre of 1819, where government-backed cavalry charged into a peaceful crowd of 80,000 that gathered in Manchester, England to demand democratic reform.Starring Maxine Peake and Rory Kinnear.

Friday 26 April, 7.30pm (doors 7pm)

£5 OTD

BlackkKlansman

From visionary filmmaker, Oscar-winning Spike Lee comes the incredible true story of an American hero. It’s the early 1970s, and Ron Stallworth (John David Washington) is the first African-American detective to serve in the Colorado Springs Police Department. Determined to make a name for himself, Stallworth bravely sets out on a dangerous mission: infiltrate and expose the Ku Klux Klan. The young detective soon recruits a more seasoned colleague, Flip Zimmerman (Adam Driver), into the undercover investigation of a lifetime. Together, they team up to take down the extremist hate group as the organisation aims to sanitise its violent rhetoric to appeal to the mainstream. Produced by the team behind the Academy-Award® winning Get Out.

Please note this film is Certificate 15. You can read the BBFC guide here…

Friday 3 May, 7.30pm (doors 7pm)

Tickets £5 OTD.

Jazz at the Movies

Thornbridge Trio

Dan Whieldon- Piano
Carl Raven- Saxophone
Gavin Barras – Double Bass

A fascinating programme of Jazz from the movies. See if you can spot your favourites.

Friday 10 May, 7.30pm (doors 7pm)

Tickets £14

Piano Trios

Our friends from the Hallé Orchestra return with a fantastic programme of piano trios.

Mozart – Piano Trio in E Major K542
Beethoven – Piano trio in C minor opus 1 no 3
Shostakovich – Piano Trio no 2 in E minor opus 67

With members of the Hallé Orchestra: Caroline Pether – violin, Dale Culliford – cello, Paul Janes – piano

Sunday 12 May, 7.30pm (doors 7pm)

Tickets £15 / 12

Town Hall Chamber Series- Baroque!

Our friends return with a wonderfully special programme of baroque music, featuring oboe and for the first time, bassoon.

Biber     –     Battalia

Vivaldi   –     Bassoon Concerto in A minor 

Bach      –     Concerto for Violin and Oboe in D minor

Telemann –  Concerto for 3 Violins in F major

Vivaldi      –   Concerto for 4 Violins in B minor

Ensemble directed by Lyn Fletcher with Elena Chiara Comelli – bassoon, and Stephane Rancourt    – oboe

 23 June 7.30pm

Tickets £15 / 12

Alfie Moore

Fair Cop Unleashed

Join BBC Radio 4’s cop-turned-comedian Alfie Moore for his latest stand-up tour show.  Fair Cop Unleashed is based on a dramatic real-life incident from Alfie’s police casebook. Relive with him the thrilling ups and downs of the night a mysterious clown came to town and more than one life ended up in the balance. It was no laughing matter – but this show certainly is! Enjoy Alfie’s unique brand of humour hilariously woven together with his personal insights into his life on the front-line of the police force. Fair Cop Unleashed based on a true dramatic incident from Alfie’s police career (involving escaped lions in Grimsby town centre!)

It’d be a crime to miss it!

★★★★ “…offbeat, revealing and very funny” Daily Mail

★★★★ “…lots of well-crafted jokes and a large dash of police gallows humour” Telegraph

“Brilliantly funny…. genuinely hilarious” David Mitchell

Saturday 28 September 7.30pm (doors 7pm)

Tickets £15

Tony Walsh AKA Longfella

Sex & Love & Rock & Roll

Standing two metres tall, Tony Walsh is often billed as a ‘giant,’ a ‘colossus’ or a ‘towering talent’ on the UK performance poetry scene. As Longfella he has a long-legged logo, but it’s his remarkable poetry, rather than his notable height, which really stands him out from the crowd. His trademark mix of intimacy and controversy, comedy and tragedy has been stunning audiences from grass-roots poetry gigs to international literature festivals since 2004.

Make no mistake, these are accessible, musical poems; influenced by the songs which soundtrack our lives; brimming with northern warmth and humour; propelled by passion and compassion as their bassline and their beat.

Thursday 24 October, 7.30pm (doors 7pm)

Tickets £14