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Thu 22 Jul 2021
Kirklees Concert Season 2021-22 Tickets Now on Sale
The Kirklees Concert Season is heading back to Huddersfield and Dewsbury Town Halls in September with a spectacular new programme of orchestral, chamber and organ music. The sound of the Orchestra of Opera North wil.....Read more
Sat 17 Jul 2021
Workshops to help you with grant funding for Year of Music
The Year of Music 2023 is a year-long festival of music led by Kirklees Council, in partnership with music organisations from across the district. We know that it will need participation from all the people and groups.....Read more
Thu 08 Jul 2021
International Bluegrass Award nomination for True North Music
Huddersfield-based music promoter and booking agent Maria Wallace (True North Music) has been nominated for a Momentum Award by the International Bluegrass Music Association (IBMA) based in Nashville, Tennessee. The nomi.....Read more
Tue 06 Jul 2021
Eileen Alanna from Fishing4Compliments EP 'Colour In My View'
Eileen Alanna from Fishing4Compliments has released a solo EP 'Colour In My View' comprised of five songs written and recorded during lockdown. The EP is produced, arranged, mixed and mastered by Jason Hanson of McKinnon.....Read more
Tue 06 Jul 2021
University of Huddersfield Brass Band Broadcast - Pilot Project
As part of a pilot project between a number of departments at the University of Huddersfield, a live broadcast was recently streamed from Huddersfield Town Hall by the University of Huddersfield Brass Band. Schools from.....Read more
Tue 29 Jun 2021
Take part in music education survey
The Department for Education (DfE) has commissioned Arts Council England to undertake a short piece of market research to understand how the landscape of music education has changed over the last decade. To gauge this, a.....Read more
Mon 21 Jun 2021
Streaming Across The Sea online festival coming up in July
There'll be banjos, fiddles and mandolins galore, lively tunes and songs of heartbreak at the Streaming Across The Sea online festival, which fittingly kicks off on the Fourth of July. Huddersfield-based music promoter T.....Read more
Mon 14 Jun 2021
Watch "Carry On Touring" online summit with NME, MPs, Creatives
I recently contributed to Carry On Touring's online summit with cross party MPs, NME, Lords and music / creative biz tackling the government’s inadequate response to the nightmare of touring the EU post Brexit. Promi.....Read more
Mon 07 Jun 2021
William Galinsky to lead the Kirklees Year of Music 2023
it has been announced that International arts festival artistic director William Galinsky has been appointed as artistic programmer for the Kirklees Year of Music 2023. William specialises in creating arts festivals a.....Read more
Wed 19 May 2021
Kirklees Council Partners with I'll Fly Away Foundation
Kirklees Council has formed a partnership with The I’ll Fly Away Foundation in the USA, which uses the power of music to engage children and improve their lives through songwriting. Through this partnership, the I’ll Fl.....Read more
Tue 18 May 2021
Kirklees Council announce board for Year of Music 2023
Kirklees Council is pleased to announce the board for the Year of Music 2023. Linking into Yorkshire’s plans for a Year of Culture in 2023, the aim is for Kirklees to shine a spotlight on the richness and diversity o.....Read more
Mon 17 May 2021
Return of the Kirklees Concert Season 2021-22
Kirklees Council and Opera North have announced the return of live music to Huddersfield and Dewsbury Town Halls in September after a year of silence, with a full programme of orchestral, chamber and organ concerts for t.....Read more
Mon 17 May 2021
Return of the Kirklees Concert Season Celebratory Online Concert
For almost two decades, the Kirklees Concert season has brought world-class classical music to the Huddersfield and Dewsbury Town Halls, through a ground-breaking partnership between Kirklees Council and Opera North. .....Read more
Fri 14 May 2021
Honley Male Voice Choir
As we move toward restrictions being relaxed further we are now planning to return to live rehearsals....and hopefully soon. If, after all this time at home you want to swap singing on your own to singing in a choir,.....Read more
Tue 22 Sep 2020
BBC’s music and dementia initiative.
BBC Music Memories and BBC World Service are launching an international journey through music as part of the BBC’s music and dementia initiative. For World Alzheimer’s Day, BBC World Service is helping to expand the i.....Read more