Day 4: Sunday 9th June 2024 – Celebration Day – Manchester Ballads – Music Meets History.
Join Michael Wood & friends as they play music and sings songs about history, work, war and social protest.
2pm – 3pm: Manchester Ballads – Music Meets History
Manchester is famously a city of invention innovation and social movements- and also a city of music. Last year, legendary songwriter Steve Knightley (Show of Hands) and historian Michael Wood toured the UK and played Glastonbury with their “Songs of the People’ tour, melding music and history with songs of work, war and social protest.
To celebrate 200 years of The University of Manchester, they team up with local Reggae icon Glen Latouche and acclaimed trumpeter Howard Brown for an hour-long show of songs from Peterloo and the Chartists to the Suffragettes and Madchester, key moments in the city’s rich cultural and industrial heritage.
