Two of the UK’s most compelling singer-songwriters, Our Man In The Field (Alex Ellis) and Matt Owens Music (founding member of Noah and The Whale), join forces for a special double-headliner tour.
The pair will perform individual sets showcasing their finest work, followed by a collaborative performance blending their distinctive styles into something truly unforgettable.
Country Hits Live
Performed by a cast of multi award-winning musicians and singers, Country Hits Live will celebrate the atmosphere and energy of an evening in the home of country music.
Prepare be taken back through the history of country music featuring songs from Johnny Cash, Willie Nelson, Dolly Parton, Shania Twain, Garth Brooks right through to Taylor Swift and Luke Combs.
With songs including Folsom Prison Blues, Crazy, Jolene, The Gambler to name a few, this trip through Country Music’s greatest hits is an evening not to be missed!
Fronted by UK Country singer Jade Helliwell, and direct from Nashville Lars Pluto.
Jazz at PAC Presents: Interstellar Duo
Original jazz, classical and folk compositions written for piano, voices, violin and viola from the duo whose musical projects take them (and their listeners) around the world.
From desert safaris, to being pushed to their limits across dangerous moorlands, Interstellar Duo’s music speaks to all, and tales always contain something of the unexpected. Creating events with interactive elements from board games to live portraiture, and writing music for circus and dance shows, music which inspires movement is key for the duo.
Jazz at PAC Presents: Snake Davis
Snake Davis is one of the most in-demand saxophone players in the world, widely known for his solos on tracks such as Lisa Stansfield’s “Change”, M-People’s “Search For A Hero” and “Moving On Up”, Klingande’s ‘Jubel’ and Take That’s “A Million Love Songs”. He has played and recorded with artists ranging from James Brown to Tina Turner to Paul McCartney, The Eurythmics to Amy Winehouse.
As a session player to the stars he plays arenas and stadiums, recent clients include Olly Murs and Shania Twain, later this year he’ll tour Japan playing arenas, but his greatest love is to play intimate venues as himself, his own music choice with his favourite musicians.
Playing the saxophone family as well as flutes, whistles and the ancient Japanese wind instrument, the Shakuhachi, and vocals, it is his to
Jazz at PAC Presents: Tommy T’s Bluenote Dance Party!
The hippest tunes! The swingin-est band! Prepare for a night of Bluenote Records’ coolest cuts; all killer, no filler, with grooves from Horace Silver, Cannonball Adderley, Art Blakey and more!
Brought to you by bandleader Tom Townsend (Drums) the show features a quintet of the UK’s coolest players: Paul Baxter (Double Bass), Andrzej Baranek (Piano), Tom Sharpe (Trumpet), and Kyran Matthews (Sax)
Ask your folks if you can stay out late, get lil Suzie from the sock hop and tell her it’s jazz, baby! Foot-tappin, soul-shakin, Bluenote jazz!
Jazz at PAC Presents: Brendan Duffy Quartet
One of the most charismatic and popular entertainers on the UK jazz scene..
Accompanied by the astonishing rhythm section of Tom Townsend on drums and Paul Baxter on double bass, plus the hardest-working pianist in York, Karl Mullen on upright piano, hold onto your hats for an eclectic and exciting cabaret of jazz through the ages. Everything from Louis Armstrong and singalong fun to John Coltrane and Charles Mingus!
Phil Beer
Phil Beer is the multi-instrumental half of the west country’s award-winning acoustic duo, Show of Hands. With a professional career of over 36 years, Phil has a great deal of material to draw on for his solo appearances, which are an eclectic mix of traditional tunes, covers of Springsteen or The Hollies, together with his own compositions and songs from his contemporaries.
All are songs and music of memory and significance sung in the subtle and melodic Phil Beer style and interjected with musings and amusings to an almost personal audience. It is a treat of past and current favourites from one of the most popular musicians on the acoustic circuit.
China Crisis: Y Stop Now Tour
For more than four decades now Gary Daly and Eddie Lundon, collectively better known as China Crisis, have been writing and performing some of the most catchy and sophisticated pop songs out there, from “Wishful Thinking”, “Black Man Ray”, and “King in a Catholic Style” to “Christian”, “Arizona Sky” and “Down Here on Earth”.
Their 2024 release China Greatness (featuring elevated, cinematic new arrangements of the songwriters’ own favourite tracks from across their catalogue) peaked in the album charts at record-setting levels for the band, and their recent tours around the globe have served to both build the </s
Mark Radcliffe and David Boardman
Mark and David are singing, songwriting, strumming and swigging buddies from the Badlands of the Cheshire Plain.
Radcliffe has been on BBC national radio since the early nineties and currently hosts the Radio 2 Folk Show and weekend breakfast on 6Music. He is also the author of five bestselling books, the latest being ‘Crossroads’ In Search Of The Moments That Changed Music’. Previously a member of folk-rock bands The Family Mahone and Galleon Blast, he is currently one half of electronic duo UNE and drummer and lyricist for Americana band Fine Lines.
David Boardman. A consummate guitarist and guitar teacher, David cut his teeth on the rock circuit with Darktown Jubilee touring not only the UK but also North America and Canada. A gifted visual artist, Boardman met Radcliffe in their hometown of Knutsford where their writing partnership soon paid dividends.
Their act is one of classic simplicity: two voices, two guitars, some great original songs, the odd carefully chosen cover and the occasional rambling anecdote. It might not sound like much, but they seem to be getting away with it….so far.
Kathryn Tickell & Amy Thatcher
The intuitive musical interplay between Kathryn and Amy is born out of a long-standing creative friendship. Kathryn’s pipes marry beautifully with Amy’s exquisite accordion playing; a cascade of jigs, reels, heart-wrenching airs, together with percussive clog dancing makes for an irresistible mix.
Kathryn Tickell – Northumbrian pipes, fiddle, voice
Kathryn is widely acclaimed as the foremost exponent of the Northumbrian pipes. She is a composer, performer, broadcaster and recording artist whose work is deeply rooted in the landscape and people of Northumbria. She has twice won “Musician of the Year” at the BBC Radio 2 Folk Awards and was awarded the OBE in 2015 for services to folk music.
Amy Thatcher – accordion, voice, clog dancing
Amy is one of the UK’s leading folk accordionists. Her musical roots are in Stockport’s Fosbrook Folk Education Trust, where she trained from the age of eight on accordion, fiddle, piano and clog dan