Performance
FREE FOLK DAY
Foxlowe Arts Centre Market Place, Leek, Staffordshire, United KingdomFREE FOLK DAY Free afternoon concert featuring MERRY HELL plus Phoebe Rees, Tom Perry and Clive Brookes, Leek Peace Choir and others, plus sessions and singarounds.
MERRY HELL
Foxlowe Arts Centre Market Place, Leek, Staffordshire, United KingdomMerry Hell Multi-award winning Merry Hell offer joyful, uplifting folk-rock, with a message for troubled times. Native to the North-West of England, the 8-piece musical charabanc was built from the embers of the much-loved folk-punk band The Tansads, before developing a life and feel all of its own. Their energy and passion is complimented by […]
KARINE POLWART
Foxlowe Arts Centre Market Place, Leek, Staffordshire, United KingdomKARINE POLWART: Light Beyond The Window The legendary crooner continues to entertain audiences around the world with incredible showmanship, an unmistakable powerful KARINE POLWART is a multi-award-winning Scottish songwriter, folk singer, and storyteller. Her songs evoke a richness of place, hidden histories, scientific curiosity and folklore. Trees and rocks speak. Birds flit in and out […]
SIMON EVANS: HAVE WE MET?
Foxlowe Arts Centre Market Place, Leek, Staffordshire, United KingdomSIMON EVANS: HAVE WE MET? After finally solving the mystery of his existence and true identity in Work of the Devil, Simon finds that has still not overcome the more daily challenges of remembering what he came upstairs for, who these grown-ups are that live with him (and what they have done with his children?) […]
LEEK BLUES & AMERICANA FESTIVAL THURSDAY SESSION
The Cock Inn 19 Derby Street, Leek, Staffordshire, United KingdomLEEK BLUES & AMERICANA FESTIVAL THURSDAY SESSION Local performers and special guests hosted by Mike Gledhill The Cock Inn, Leek 8.30pm FREE EVENT
THE PEAK DISTRICT BIG BAND
Foxlowe Arts Centre Market Place, Leek, Staffordshire, United KingdomTHE PEAK DISTRICT BIG BAND This swinging big band require no introduction to Leek Arts Festival fans – and the players can’t wait to be able to perform in Leek again. Recreating classic big band sounds; from Duke, Basie, Herman and Kenton to Dizzy Gillespie, Oliver Nelson and Ted Heath. The band’s performance will also […]
SOUND PARTY
The Cock Inn 19 Derby Street, Leek, Staffordshire, United KingdomSOUND PARTY The Cock Inn, Leek 8.30pm FREE EVENT
THE SITUATION’S MAY THING 2024
Foxlowe Arts Centre Market Place, Leek, Staffordshire, United KingdomTHE SITUATION'S MAY THING 2024 Mouses + Morning's Thief + Dread Lagoon + Sal Pepper + Plan Pony Foxlowe Arts Centre, Leek 7pm (Doors 6pm) The Situation presents the first of three 'out there' events this May. Expect some experimental freeform noise, some electrifying noisy punk, perhaps some funky No-Wave or some visceral thrashy post-rock?. […]
POET LAUREATE SIMON ARMITAGE
Foxlowe Arts Centre Market Place, Leek, Staffordshire, United KingdomPOET LAUREATE SIMON ARMITAGE - reading from 'Sir Gawain & The Green Knight' plus book signing. Poet Laureate Simon Armitage will be reading from his highly acclaimed 2009 translation of Sir Gawain and the Green Knight. This story, first told in the late fourteenth century, is one of the most enthralling, enigmatic and beloved poems […]
TUDOR ENTERTAINMENT FOLLOWED BY ANNE BOLEYN
St Edward's Church Church Street, Leek, Staffordshire, United KingdomStaffordshire Life feature. Lesley Smith Curator of Tutbury Castle and emminent historian poses as herself, the tiger lady and Anne Boleyn and introducing her lastest character Boudicca. 01283 812129 TUDOR ENTERTAINMENT FOLLOwED BY ANNE BOLEYN Historian Lesley Smith, curator of Tutbury Castle, portrays the doomed second wife of Henry VIII - Anne Boleyn. The evening […]