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The Band: Kate Rusby (Vocals and Guitar) John Doyle (Guitar), Julian Sutton (Accordion), Duncan Lyle (Double Bass), Liam Kelly (Flute), Damien O’Kane (Guitar, Banjo and arranger) John Joe Kelly (Bodhrán/Percussion) Reviewer: Dave Cunningham The Public Reviews Rating:   Kate Rusby recently celebrated 20 years as a performer by re-recording old favourites with accompaniment from famous guest stars. [...]

Choreographer: Ruth Tyson-Jones & So Many Words Theatre Company Reviewer: Sally Cinnamon The Public Reviews Rating: Ruth Tyson-Jones will be celebrating twenty years of Ad Hoc in January with new and exciting performances promised. Tonight is one of the many they’ve performed over the ten years they’ve been resident at The Lowry. It’s thanks to the venue for [...]

Reviewer: Sally Cinnamon The Public Reviews Rating: Bellowhead’s last album, Hedonism sold 60,000 copies and is the biggest selling independent folk album of all time. I’d done my research; I knew the facts before seeing the gig. The award-winning troupe are now back on the road playing a mixture of traditional folk songs, sea shanties and dance tunes [...]

Reviewer Ruth Lovett The Public Reviews Rating: Based on the popular children’s book of the same name, this puppet show makes its way to the Lowry studio ready to delight young & old with dancing, music and a couple of days in the life of three skeletons. Big, Little and Dog live in a dark dark town, down [...]

Writer/Reader: Michael Morpurgo Music:Barry Coope and John Tams Reviewer: Dave Cunningham The Public Reviews Rating: After a massively successful stage version and a saccharine film one wonders what else can be done to promote Michael Morpurgo‘s novel. ‘War Horse: The Concert’ has the unique feature of the author reading a condensed version of his own novel to musical [...]

Reviewer: Paul Downham The Public Reviews Rating: Jenny Eclair returns to The Lowry celebrating 30 years on the comedy circuit and those years have stood her in good stead as she delivers a master class in comedy to a near capacity crowd during a surprisingly energetic performance. The establishment of an audience ‘safe’ word at the very top [...]

Director & Choreographer: Helene Weinzierl Reviewer: Iain Sykes The Public Reviews Rating: Habibi Problem, from Austrian dance company cieLaroque, tells the tale of two homosexual adolescents on the run to Europe from their Iranian home and the struggles which they face, one who makes it to Europe and one detained back in Iran. The piece, despite being about [...]

Reviewer: Tracey Lowe The Public Reviews Rating: Mark Watson’s career started quite promisingly. Working with the likes of Tim Key and Tim Minchin on his BBC Radio 4 show, ‘Mark Watson Makes the World Substantially Better’ early in his career, he established himself as a relatable, friendly comic, with some genuinely good gags. Over the last few years [...]