Liverpool Acoustic is the only website of its kind in the UK. It was founded by Graham Holland in April 2008 as a central resource for the vibrant and exciting acoustic music scene in Liverpool and the Greater Merseyside area. The website publishes news from the local acoustic music scene, previews of upcoming events, and reviews of music releases and gigs. This content is available for free via email subscription. Liverpool Acoustic also hosts its own shows at venues including the Music Room and LEAF on Bold Street.
It’s with a heavy heart that we announce the postponement of our Liverpool Acoustic shows in April and May. We were already considering this following yesterday’s updated advice from the Government but it was taken out of our hands today with the news that the Philharmonic Hall is to closeContinue Reading
POSTPONED until further notice Liverpool’s Milo Seabird are to follow up on their 2019 debut single with I Lie Low, a 5 track EP of brand new material to be released on 19th March. Milo Seabird Last year ex-Lumin Bells front man Nico Hercules teamed up with Ollie Hawes to start a new musicalContinue Reading
<< URGENT UPDATE – 4th March 2020 >> After recently being diagnosed with prostate cancer Will Kaufman will be going into hospital on 19th March to have it removed, courtesy of our wonderful NHS. Everyone from Liverpool Acoustic and the Liverpool Philharmonic Hall wish him all the best. Because ofContinue Reading
UPDATE – This show has been rescheduled for Sunday 1st November. Click here for more details. Following on from his celebrated shows, Woody Guthrie: Hard Times and Hard Travelin’ and Woody Guthrie: The Long Road to Peekskill Will Kaufman brings his new living documentary Woody Guthrie and ‘Old Man Trump’ to the Liverpool PhilharmonicContinue Reading
Did you know…? In Sweden Wednesday is known as Little Saturday. The Taiwanese call Wednesday míni zhoumò which translates as mini weekend. The phrase hump day first appeared in North America in the 1960s before eventually making its way across the pond to Blighty. Whatever you choose to call Wednesday to help you celebrate theContinue Reading
It Takes Two is an evening celebrating stunning close harmonies and fantastic original music. It takes place this coming Saturday 22nd February 2020 at Liverpool Philharmonic Hall’s prestigious Music Room, and features 30 minute sets from four of the very best vocal duos performing on Merseyside today. Acoustic Americana duo Limerance (Calum Gilligan and Jenny Coyle) perform originalContinue Reading
Singer-songwriter Alison Benson has won the Judges’ Award at the ninth Liverpool Acoustic Songwriting Challenge. The news was announced at the end of the Showcase Final which took place at Leaf on Bold Street on the evening of 18th January 2020. Alison also picked up the Audience Favourite award asContinue Reading
Ten talented local songwriters have won a place at the Liverpool Acoustic Songwriting Challenge 2019 Showcase Final taking place on Saturday 18th January 2020 at LEAF on Bold St. Songwriters submitted brand new songs inspired by works of art on display across the Liverpool City Region during the September to October entry period. Judges StephenContinue Reading
On 14th October fifteen years ago at Mathew Street’s much missed View Two Gallery the very first Mellowtone show took place. Ever since then the team behind the name have been quietly creating a stir with their warming brew of lovingly-curated events and projects. Along the way they’ve worked withContinue Reading
Liverpool Acoustic are pround to present Neil Campbell’s Ghost Stories for Halloween 2019. Accompanied by soprano Anne Taft, Neil will be haunting three North West venues this October with shows at Manchester’s Bridgewater Hall on Sunday 27th, The Arts Centre, Edge Hill University on Monday 28th, and Liverpool Philharmonic Hall’s Music Room on Halloween night, Thursday 31st! Ghost Stories started life inContinue Reading
