The double award-winning Liverpool Acoustic Live is throwing a Big 10th Birthday Bash to celebrate ten years this weekend and you’re all invited to the party!
Headlining this special event at Leaf on Bold Street on Saturday 16th February are Americana star Robert Vincent and Threshold Festival co-founder Kaya Herstad-Carney.
Robert and Kaya will be joined on the night by 13 more acts who’ve performed at one of the many Liverpool Acoustic Live events spanning the past decade.
The lineup includes three duos, Southbound Attic Band, Rob Jones and Rob White, and Limerance, plus experienced performers Rob Clarke, Chris Callander, Only Child, and Caroline England.
Irishman Gary Maginnis and Liverpool Acoustic Songwriting Challenge winner Rachael Jean Harris will be taking to the stage, and the youth contingent is represented by Maddie Stenberg and Eleanor Nelly.
The evening is completed with Liverpool Acoustic Live co-host Derek King and former co-host Stuart Todd.
Tickets for the Big 10th Birthday Bash are just £6 in advance, available in person from the M&S Bank Arena Box Office and online from ticketquarter.co.uk. You can pay on the door too if there are any tickets left.
Doors open at 7.30pm and the music starts at 8.00pm.
All profits will be donated to CALM – the Campaign Against Living Miserably – an award-winning charity dedicated to preventing male suicide, the single biggest killer of men under the age of 45 in the UK. In 2015, 75% of all UK suicides were male.
About Liverpool Acoustic Live
Liverpool Acoustic Live started by accident in February 2009 when Liverpool Acoustic founder Graham Holland joined forces with local musician Stuart Todd to put on a one-off gig at Mathew Street’s View Two Gallery. At the end of the night – staring Stephen Langstaff, and featuring Lizzie Nunnery and 14 year old Luke Jackson – Graham and Stuart had enjoyed themselves so much they decided to make it a monthly event.
Over the past decade this event has played host to over 500 local, national and international artists, performing unforgettable music to listening audiences in independent venues for an affordable price.
In 2012 and 2013 Liverpool Acoustic Live won Live Music Night of the Year at the Liverpool Music Awards.
Liverpool Acoustic Live has changed over recent years. In 2017 the closure of the View Two Gallery saw the event move to a new home at 81 Renshaw. The same year saw local musician and open mic host Dr Derek King join Graham as co-host and co-showrunner, and in 2018 the event changed to become bi-monthly.
The success of the showcase laid the foundations for the weekly open mic, the Liverpool Acoustic Songwriting Challenge, the new 24 Hour Songwriting Challenge, and Liverpool Acoustic Presents shows at the Liverpool Philharmonic Hall Music Festival.
Liverpool Acoustic Live’s first event in 2009 lead to collaborations with festivals including Threshold, We Shall Overcome, Folk on the Dock, the Liverpool Irish Festival, Liverpool Sound City, Light Night, Above the Beaten Track, and the Liverpool Acoustic Festival.
Liverpool Acoustic head honcho Graham Holland says “When I started this event in 2009 with my good friend Stuart Todd I never imagined how many fantastic nights of live music it would lead to.
I’d like to thank Ken Martin from the much missed View Two Gallery for his warmth, support, generosity and sketches over the years, and to Neil Tilley for taking us in and giving us a new place to call home at 81 Renshaw.
Thanks to every single performer who has played for us, often in front of a listening audience for the first time, and to everyone who has ever come along to listen thereby helping to support live music in one of the best music cities in the world.
My special thanks must go to everyone in the local media community who has helped to plug our gigs, especially Billy Butler who never hesitated to give slots on his show to both local and touring acts.”