An annual series of music and spoken word events is hosted by Dave Nelson at Wainsgate where musicians, poets, and audiences alike can make the most of the Chapel’s near-perfect acoustic.
Earlier in 2024
Sun 27 October 2024 7.30pm
Silent Movie Night
with live music from Darius Battiwalla: organ, piano
“Improvisation extraordinaire..” Artsdesk review of Phantom of the Opera.
Fri 25 October 2024 8pm
Philip Clouts Quartet
Melodic jazz with inspirations from around the world
“The best of British jazz” Chris Phillips Jazz FM
“Precise ebullience and relaxed funkiness” The Guardian
27-29 September 2024
Wainsgate Piano Weekend
From the people who brought you Hebden Bridge Piano Festival (2013-2019) – a one-off weekend packed with piano music from world-class artists. FIND OUT MORE
Sat 14 September 2024 3pm
Les Gillon & the Agents of Karma
A group of outstanding musicians from the worlds of jazz, classical and folk music, the Agents of Karma bring Les Gillon’s music into a musical melting pot.
Sat 7 September 2024 7.30pm
Cottontown Chorus
“We need to smile!! I defy you not to smile at this !! hee hee…nice one, boys!!” Brian May (Queen) after he saw the chorus’ performance of Fat Bottomed Girls
Sat 13 July 2024 3pm
Commoners Choir
“Bloody marvellous stuff. I always want to charge at something after hearing them.” Mark Thomas
“They sing with fires in their bellies, and tongues in their cheeks.” Beccy Owen
Sat 20 July 2024 3pm
Fran & Flora
Multi-award-nominated experimental/folk duo Fran & Flora captivate audiences with their reinventions of traditional Eastern European melodies and songs.
‘a string duo bound for glory’ BBC Radio 3 Late Junction
Sun 21 July 2024 7.30pm
Seni Seneviratne
Renaissance One presents UNKNOWN SOLDIER
A moving one-woman performance and multi-media installation which brings to life the hidden family narrative of poet-artist Seni Seneviratne and her father’s experiences as a Royal Signalman in the North African Desert War.
Sat 29 June 2024Vasilis Xenopoulos & Paul Edis
Vasilis Xenopoulos “One of the most fiery young saxophonists around blazes a path through the hard bop repertoire” The Times ★★★★
Paul Edis “One of the leading lights of contemporary jazz” London Jazz News
Sat 22 June 2024
The Nightcreatures
Brassy 6-piece New Orleans R&B band specialising in Swamp Funk, Voodoo Blues and Mardi Gras street beats.
Fri 22 March 2024
Goat Girl
Wainsgate is delighted and very excited to welcome the extraordinary Goat Girl to the Chapel. Often described as post-punk, their music is so much more – effortlessly blending rock, folk, synth-pop and more into their highly approachable socio-political songs which are delivered with heaps of style, wit and energy. FIND OUT MORE
Sun 21 April 3pm
The Breath
“Quietly, inexorably, The Breath have become one of the…most exciting folk acts…” The Financial Times ★★★★★
“folk roots but different horizons… the jaw-droppingly stunning, woozy voice of Ríoghnach Connolly” The Guardian
Sat 11 May 3pm
Samuel Moore: Flamenco Landscapes
Making a welcome return to Wainsgate after his sell-out appearance in 2021 is the brilliant and highly engaging flamenco virtuoso Samuel Moore
Sat 8 June 3pm
York Guitar Quartet
The Quartet currently offers an inspiring and unusual repertoire which blends originals and arrangements of baroque, classical, romantic and twentieth century music. The twenty first century is already well represented. A unique mixture of instruments provides a range of five octaves, allowing the group access to music normally unavailable to the solo guitar or other ensembles.
Sun 9 June 3pm
Imtiaz Dharker & Amanda Dalton
A celebratory reading of their new Bloodaxe poetry collections.
