Join us from Friday, October 11th to Sunday, October 13th, 2024, for the Marsden Fringe Festival!

This vibrant music festival takes place in the heart of Marsden Village, running alongside the renowned Marsden Jazz Festival. Experience an incredible lineup of live music, featuring jazz bands, big bands, and funk bands, traditional and contemporary jazz fusion and more alongside community music-making events.

The festival kicks off Friday afternoon and continues through to Sunday evening, offering a packed schedule with something for everyone!

**Festival Hub:**  
The main hub will be at the North of England Centre for Music and Arts and the Standedge Visitor Centre. Enjoy the scenic canal with narrowboats all day, participate in a parade, and explore games, stalls, and crafts, all contributing to a lively festival atmosphere.

Stay tuned for tickets and the full lineup of gigs, coming soon! Don’t miss out on this fantastic celebration of music and community!

Award winning Klezmer violinist Alicia Svigals and American pianist Donald Sosin conclude their Northern Silents residency with a remarkable film – found in Paris flea market in 2015 after being lost since the 1930s.

The film

Set in the Vienna-like city of Utopia, The City Without Jews follows the political and personal consequences of an anti-Semitic law to expel the city’s Jews. 

The film had its final screening in Amsterdam in 1933, as a protest against the Nazis – after which it was thought that every copy had been destroyed.

Miraculously, in 2015 a complete print of the film was discovered in a Paris flea market. Beautifully restored by Filmarchiv Austria – and almost exactly a century after its Vienna premiere – this disturbing and unique film now has its first screening in Manchester. 

The music

Alicia Svigals and Donald Sosin have been bringing audiences to their feet throughout the U.S. and Europe with their unique and stirring violin and piano scores for Jewish-themed silent films. Sosin is one of the world’s finest silent film musicians; Svigals is the world’s leading klezmer violinist and a founder of the Grammy-winning Klezmatics.

Welcome to Oktoberfest 2024 -Marsden!

 Join us for the Hanson Community Arts Christmas Concerts, a festive celebration featuring a diverse selection of music.

Our concerts showcase the talents of the fabulous Hanson string groups, wind band, ukulele ensemble, big bands, and choirs, all expertly led by renowned maestro Simon Wood.

Embrace the holiday spirit with carols, traditional Christmas favourites with some not-so-traditional favourites (!)  An unforgettable experience for everyone. Don’t miss this joyous occasion to celebrate the season with us!

“Simply vocal heaven” The Sunday Times

“A voice that’s both awestruck and tender” The New York Times

Composer Of The Year at the Scots Trad Music Awards and nominated for Folk singer of the year and Best Traditional Song by BBC Radio 2, Best Live Act by the Scottish Traditional Music Awards and Best Female Vocalist at The Irish Music Awards. 

Heidi has shared the stage and recorded with Mark Knopfler, Graham Coxon(Blur), Eddi Reader, Idlewild, Matt Rollings, King Creosote, Kris Drever, Tim O’Brien and Jerry Douglas. 

Performing all over North and South America, the United Kingdom, Ireland, Europe, Scandinavia, Japan, Australia and New Zealand performing in the finest Concert Halls and International Festivals Heidi Talbot is equally at home in front of a Symphony Orchestra, a Folk Festival, at the White House or even in Marsden! 

**** The Guardian **** The Independant **** The Telegraph **** Q Magazine **** OK! Magazine ***** Maverick

Jon Boden best known as lead singer and main arranger of Bellowhead has become the stand out performer of his generation of traditional folk artists, but one whose repertoire extends far beyond the boundaries of the genre. 

Over 12 years Bellowhead achieved a level of critical and commercial success unmatched by any other band working in English traditional music in the last three decades.

Jon’s ‘Colourchord’ harmony-singing system allows any group of singers to sight-sing in four part harmony regardless of experience rather than musical notation.

www.robinseletsky.com

As Breakdance hits the Olympics for the first time this summer, Break Dance Manchester is coming to Marsden, with some taster sessions.

Led by their professional teachers and Ideal for beginners, these tasters will cover the basic foundations of Break Dance . Fun sessions will teach young people the rich hip hop culture through exercises in Toprock and Footwork, Freezes and Power Moves, Battles and Cyphers.

Nothing needed to start – except clothes you can move in, a bottle of water and a sense of fun!