An accomplished college basketball player and middle-distance runner with great potential, Doyle Brunson appeared to have a successful sporting career ahead of him until a summer job in a gypsum plant in the 1950s changed that trajectory immeasurably and ultimately gave rise to perhaps the greatest legend the world of professional poker has seen. With…
Celebrating its 10th Anniversary, the London A Cappella Festival resonates around the capital from 23-26 January 2019. Bringing an epic line-up of international headliners and vocal super-groups to the city, this year’s programme features internationally acclaimed composer and singer Laura Mvula with Europe’s finest female vocal quintet Black Voices; American pop-jazz vocal sensations M-Pact, legendary…
Live At Leeds brings the best new talent from the UK and beyond to the city for one day in May. Taking place at various venues across Leeds city centre, the festival gets underway on the first bank holiday weekend of the month… on Saturday, 4 May 2019. As with many city-based festivals, the Live…
Taking place across multiple venues in Brighton in May, the Great Escape Festival features a huge line-up of new music with hundreds of up-and-coming acts lined up for the city from 9-11 May 2019. A leading festival for emerging talent, the Great Escape showcases about 500 developing artists from all over the world at more…
One of the UK’s leading independent festivals for new music, Sound City returns to Liverpool for another whirlwind weekend of music from 3-5 May 2019. Renowned for its musical heritage, Liverpool radiates an energy unlike any other city in the UK and the unforgettable three-day festival captures the city’s vibrancy with some of the country’s…
The best of Nashville hits stages in London, Dublin and Glasgow for the three nights in March when Europe’s biggest country music festival, C2C: Country to Country, takes place. Inaugurated in 2013, the event brings some of the biggest names in Nashville to London, Glasgow and Dublin every spring, with Carrie Underwood, LeAnn Rimes, Tim…
A new festival heads to Manchester’s city centre in March when You Are Not Alone takes over the city on Saturday, 30 March 2019. The line-up and venues will be announced over the coming months, but a host of local favourites have already shown support for the multi-venue event in aid of charity Manchester Mind.…
Expanding on last year’s scaled-back Across the Threshold event, the 2019 Threshold Festival from 29-30 March goes back to its roots with a wider blueprint featuring grass-roots music, visual arts, performance and activities from talented people from Liverpool and further afield. Now in its ninth year, the multi-arts festival takes place across the city’s Baltic…
Scotland’s biggest celebration of reggae, dub and sound-system culture returns to Edinburgh on the first weekend of March 2019 with a massive line-up covering reggae, roots, dub, dance-hall, jungle and bass in many forms, topped by two giants of the scene: Jah Shaka and Adrian Sherwood. Spread over four main sessions powered by Scotland’s best…
