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This page lists all the scheduled events at Buxton Opera House. If you would like to see all the shows between specific dates in the future then please select your preferred start and end date. Alternatively, you may filter by category.
Ralph McTell
25 November 7:30 PM
Described by Billy Connolly as ‘one of Britain’s best singer/songwriters’, Ralph McTell is among Britain’s most consummate entertainers. He has won the Ivor Novello Award and a BBC Lifetime Achievement Award for his songwriting and his prolific career has spanned nearly four decades. Read more about this event … or
An Albion Christmas
15 December 7:30 PM
Founder of Fairport Convention, Steeleye Span and The Albion Band, Ashley Hutchings is joined on stage by acclaimed solo singer Kellie While, Simon Care of Edward II and E2K and fellow Fairport founder-member Simon Nicol, for an evening of traditional English Christmas music, dancing and celebration. Now in its 8th year, An Albion Christmas returns to Buxton for a guided tour through the Christmas customs of Britain. Read more about this event … or
Shooglenifty
21 December 8:00 PM
One of the most innovative and exciting bands of recent years, and the runaway success of Four Four Time 07, Shooglenifty have a well deserved global reputation for a fantastic show. Formed in Edinburgh, the band quickly drew a strong fanbase for their energised, contemporary roots material. They describe their sound as ‘hypnofolkadelia’ and ‘acid croft’, with influences stretching from folk revivalists, to Captain Beefheart to The Fall.
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Edward II & Jim Moray
16 February 7:30 PM
Four Four Time 09
Splicing dance tunes of old England with the sunny sexy grooves of reggae and lovers’ rock, Edward II transcended superficial notions of ‘crossover’ to forge a truly original synthesis from their far-flung musical roots. Featuring a seven-piece line up that saw melodeon and sax, fiddle and trombone nestling snugly cheek-by-jowl, their repertoire strolls expansively from reworked folk standards like Wild Mountain Thyme or La Russe to Caribbean classics like Gregory Isaacs’ Night Nurse. Edward II are long renowned as one of the freshest, funkiest acts on the circuit, sending crowds from Shetland to Sri Lanka, Brazil to Bangladesh into a jigging, skanking frenzy with their superlative live shows.
At the age of 21, Jim Moray was hailed ‘…the greatest leap forward in folk for 30 years’ (Daily Telegraph). His debut album Sweet England was called ‘a revolutionary experience’ (HMV Choice). Critics worldwide fell over themselves to tip Moray for great things. Combining traditional melodies with sampled electronic music, Moray now delivers on that promise with Low Culture, an album of ten songs that defines exactly where English traditional music is at in the early 21st century. Moray weaves a cohesive whole that links traditional song seamlessly into modern popular culture rather than discriminating between the two.
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