Music

If you have a musical event or gig taking place in and around Macclesfield – publicise it here.

If you have an event you want publicised here then please email us via the contact form

 

  • Sun
    06
    Jul
    2025
    Tatton Park Knutsford Cheshire WA16 6QN

  • Thu
    10
    Jul
    2025
    Sun
    27
    Jul
    2025
    Buxton

    The award-winning Buxton International Festival is an annual celebration of world-class opera, music, books and jazz with over 160 events to choose from every summer.

    Here are five reasons to make Buxton your ‘go-to’ summer festival for 2025 (10-27 July).

    1. Buxton – the beautiful spa town sits in heart of Derbyshire’s Peak District, worth a visit in itself. All the festival’s events are within easy walking distance of each other.

    2. Operas GaloreIn 2024, Buxton staged five new operas in four days and was nominated for an International Opera Award.  2025 sees a yet more impressive plans:

    • Ambroise Thomas’ Hamlet, conducted by Adrian Kelly with the Orchestra of Opera North
    • A double bill of Leonard Bernstein’s Trouble in Taihiti and Francis Poulenc’s La Voix Humaine, a Buxton International Festival and Norwich Theatre production
    • Opera Zuid production of Mozart’s The Impresario
    • La Descente d’Orphée aux Enfersa Vache Baroque production
    • Shorts – four brand new 20-minute operas by composers 

    Jasper Dommett, Martin Green and Carmel Smickersgill

    3. Jazz Weekender Tickets – Jazz Weekender tickets for just £175 offering 12 world-class gigs varying from jazz, blues, funk and Latin, plus an Oscar Peterson extravaganza. Stand-out artists include Ineza, Graham Clark Quartet, Emily Masser Quartet, Trio JDM, Baiana, Alan Barnes with an all-star band, Dean Stockdale Quartet, Emma Rawicz Quartet and Xhosa Cole Quartet.

    4. Books – 33 book talks including Diane Abbott MP, Baroness Lola Young, Petroc Trelawny, Ben Macintyre and Jonathan Sumption.

    5. Classical Music World-class concerts every day from artists including Steven Hough, Imogen Cooper, Benjamin Grosvenor, Tallis Scholars, English Concert, Simon Keenlyside and Sarah Connolly.

    Box Office – Tel 01298 2072190 

    Booking office opens at 10am on Tuesday 15 April 2025

    Become a BIF Friend for Priority Booking, from just £36 per year.

    Website – http://buxtonfestival.co.uk

  • Sat
    19
    Jul
    2025

    Macclesfield resident Trevor Stokes is holding the second Joy Division Day next month - Saturday 19th July.
    @thedepotmacc Honest Crust Pizza on Chestergate will open at midday until 9pm with a few record stalls outside along with DJs.
    They also have a Joy Division beer that has been produced alongside a local brewery - just for the day!
    Trevor Stokes will be hosting two of Ian Curtis/Joy Division walking tours (only 6-7 tickets left)
    There will be buskers playing and a choir in town.
    In the evening Transmission: The Sound Of Joy Division will be playing in Cinemac Cinema - get your tickets here 👉 https://bit.ly/4emmLsG
    Trevor Stokes
    Fade 2 Grey Tour
    Founder of Joy Division Day
  • Wed
    23
    Jul
    2025

    3:00 pmDunwoody Way, Crewe

  • Thu
    24
    Jul
    2025
    Sun
    27
    Jul
    2025
    Royal Cheshire Showground, Flittogate Lane, Tabley
     

    WE'RE TAKING THE ROOF OFF IN 2025

    And here it is!

    A line-up to compliment the hype.

    Not only are we bringing back the usual full on bumper packed schedule for all ages, but this time it’ll be to the sounds of DODGY, EAST 17, ALISON LIMERICK, NIKKI BELLE , SWEET FEMALE ATTITUDE, BRANDON BLOCK and WOODY COOK!

    Lose yourself for 4 days as we transform The Royal Cheshire Showground into the Northwests biggest Campervan family festival.

  • Sat
    23
    Aug
    2025

    The Macclesfield 1261 Festival commemorates the 764th anniversary of the granting of the town charter in 1261.

    But it’s not just a commemoration, it’s a key cultural event – a celebration of the town’s creativity and its communities.

    To encourage community involvement and enrich the festival experience, Macclesfield Town Council are providing a funding stream, enabling local individuals, businesses, and groups to apply for financial help to contribute unique and engaging activities.

    Macclesfield Town Council are offering up to £250 to use towards a project for the festival. Funding can be used to:

    • Host live music performances in bars, cafés, or public spaces.
    • Create costumes, props, or stage designs for performances.
    • Organise live art displays or installations in shops and other venues.
    • Support any other innovative and engaging activity that contributes to the festival atmosphere.

    Activities should be free to access but revenue can still be obtained in usual ways by eg. cafe’s, shops etc.

  • Sat
    23
    Aug
    2025
    2:00 pmPark Green, Macclesfield

  • Fri
    29
    Aug
    2025
    Sun
    31
    Aug
    2025
    Chatsworth House, Bakewell, GB DE45 1PP

    Chatsworth Country Fair is one of England's most spectacular annual outdoor events. Held in the 1000-acre parkland surrounding Chatsworth House, tens of thousands of visitors from all over the country join us for a memorable family day out.

    Enjoy three action-packed days of thrilling Grand Ring entertainment, inspirational cookery masterclasses, food, shopping and plenty of have-a-go activities, including a vintage fun fair, children's climbing wall, bungee trampoline and much more.

    Book before 30 June 2025 and save up to 20%.

    Book tickets HERE

  • Fri
    21
    Aug
    2026
    Sun
    23
    Aug
    2026
    Rode Hall, Scholar Green, Cheshire ST7 3QP

    The work we create at Wild Rumpus - be that large outdoor festivals and events, or more intimate creative interventions, invite people out of the real world and into fantastical wonderlands where anything can happen! Just So Festival is our most spectacular, technicolour celebration of this imaginary world, and for 2025 we have taken a pause, a moment to reconnect with its creative vision and to dream up what comes next.

    This summer the woods, parkland and lakesides at Rode Hall - home to the festival, will be quieter, waiting patiently for the curious inhabitants of the Wild Rumpus world to emerge once again from between the trees in the joyous burst of magic, performance, circus, music, dancing and community.

    We're relaunching Just So with fresh, glittering eyes. Right now as summer is almost upon us, we're busy dreaming, conjuring and distilling the essence of Just So, watching that special, iridescent wonder take shape as Just So Festival 2026.

    We can't wait to see you!

    Pre sale tickets are available now - sign up for access HERE to join in 2026 as the fantastical world unfolds!