A new home for live jazz

Weekly live jazz concerts, film nights & live streams

Our new partnership with NQ Jazz and The Yard will bring some of the UK’s finest jazz musicians to Manchester for a series of socially distanced lunchtime concerts and masterclasses, evening concerts and live broadcasts. Through a mix of live in-venue performances and high-quality online streams and performance archive, the programme will reach a global audience.

Postponed from their original launch date in 2020, the concerts will now go ahead with social distancing measures in places and will be the first in-person events to take place at The Stoller Hall, since we closed in March 2020.

Amongst the artists involved are multiple MOBO award-winning saxophonist and composer Soweto Kinch, seminal vocalist Norma Winstone alongside long-term collaborators Stan Sulzmann and Nikki Iles, plus Jazz FM Instrumentalist of the Year 2016, Mark Lockheart — the renowned saxophonist and bandleader who rose to prominence with the influential big band Loose Tubes.

Explore the events programme below.

Events

  1. Soweto Kinch

    The Stoller Hall
    Mon 7 June 2021 • 1:30pm

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  2. Ant Law

    The Stoller Hall
    Mon 14 June 2021 • 1:30pm

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  4. Iain Ballamy Quartet

    The Yard
    Mon 28 June 2021 • 7:30pm

    BOOK NOW - Evening Concert at The Yard BOOK NOW - Live Stream from The Yard Featuring: Iain Ballamy - Saxophones...

  6. Lauren Kinsella Trio

    The Yard
    Mon 5 July 2021 • 7:30pm

    BOOK NOW - Evening Concert at The Yard BOOK NOW - Live Stream from The Yard Featuring: Lauren Kinsella - Voice...

  8. Ella Hohnen-Ford’s TreeClimbers

    The Yard
    Mon 19 July 2021 • 7:30pm

    BOOK NOW - Evening Concert at The Yard Featuring: Ella Hohnen-Ford - Voice / Tom Ollendorff - Guitar / Jonny...

  9. Fergus McCreadie Trio

    The Yard
    Mon 26 July 2021 • 7:30pm

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  11. D U O L O G Y – Evening concert

    The Yard
    Mon 16 August 2021 • 7:30pm

    BOOK NOW – Live Stream from The Yard 'His level of genius is rare' - Chick Corea on Tim Garland...

  12. Andre Canniere’s Ghost Days

    The Yard
    Mon 23 August 2021 • 7:30pm

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  13. Misha Mullov-Abbado

    The Yard
    Mon 30 August 2021 • 7:30pm

    BOOK NOW - Evening Concert at The Yard BOOK NOW - Live Stream from The Yard Featuring: Misha Mullov-Abbado - Bass...

  15. Rob Luft

    The Stoller Hall
    Mon 6 September 2021 • 1:30pm

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  16. Shirley Smart Trio

    The Yard
    Mon 13 September 2021 • 7:30pm

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  17. Mark Lockheart ‘Dreamers’

    The Stoller Hall
    Mon 20 September 2021 • 1:30pm

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  18. Ripsaw Catfish ‘Aelita Queen of Mars’

    The Yard
    Sun 26 September 2021 • 6:30pm

    Featuring: Cath Roberts - saxophone / Anton Hunter - guitar Ripsaw Catfish, the collaborative duo of saxophonist Cath Roberts and guitarist Anton...

  19. Gareth Lockrane’s ‘Grooveyard’

    The Stoller Hall
    Mon 27 September 2021 • 1:30pm

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  20. Byron Wallen’s ‘Four Corners’

    The Stoller Hall
    Mon 4 October 2021 • 1:30pm

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